Tonight's international games 04.09.2017

Originally Posted by Switching Off

Oxlade is rubbish

Bet he'll be awesome for the vermin

Was just about to say it would secretly be great if a Spurs player scored on their own turf.

Originally Posted by Sapien

Does anyone actively enjoy international football? It's so profoundly depressing. Is it just England?

Think it's just England tbh. Other nations never seem to have so much apathy probably because a) their players are more relatable and b) their national team trumps their club football unlike here with the Premier League.

Obviously the fact that England get piss easy groups and get beat by the first half-decent side they face in a tournament is boring. International football is much more entertaining for an Irish fella for example whose team has to face top teams just to qualify. There's a challenge in that.

Plus Wembley is crap. It felt like more people were interested during those years when England played their games around the country.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Had dele ali ever had a good game for england? I honestly don't think i've ever seen him have a decent game yet he gets picked every time.

Curse-tastic lol

That was a foul by Walker. Lucky blue @#%&!.

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

Curse-tastic lol

what's he done?

Walker with a blatant professional foul and the commentators ignore it

What a shambles England were for most of that half

Sometimes I forget just how many not that good footballers England have

Walker 50 mill and "the Ox" 40 mill
Both of them utterly brain dead as footballers

Henderson and Dier is as bang average a midfield as your going to get at international football
Thank £#%&! we didn't get Dier. Moves like Frankenstein in that midfield

Sorry I still don't see it with Ali
Yeah he gets goals for Spurs arriving late into the box but as a number 10 he's absolutely shite
Dwells on the ball and then gives it away

Originally Posted by Sparky***

what's he done?

Scored

edit - 4 letters begins with D

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

Scored

Dier scored mate.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

What a shambles England were for most of that half

Sometimes I forget just how many not that good footballers England have

Walker 50 mill and "the Ox" 40 mill
Both of them utterly brain dead as footballers

Henderson and Dier is as bang average a midfield as your going to get at international football
Thank £#%&! we didn't get Dier. Moves like Frankenstein in that midfield

Sorry I still don't see it with Ali
Yeah he gets goals for Spurs arriving late into the box but as a number 10 he's absolutely shite
Dwells on the ball and then gives it away

The england team of the last 5 years has honestly been the worst england time i have seen. And i include Graham Taylor's England team in that. Better england teams haven't qualified for tournaments, how this utter shower keeps qualifying for major tournaments is beyond me.

England for the past 40 odd years has never had the best team out there but £#%&!ing hell they at least had several decent players in the past. This lot are just bang average, all of them. They all look miles better than what they are surrounded by foreign players in the premier league, when in reality they aren't up to much.

I have no idea what England are doing in regards to developing footballers because we seem to be getting worse at it.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

What a shambles England were for most of that half

Sometimes I forget just how many not that good footballers England have

Walker 50 mill and "the Ox" 40 mill
Both of them utterly brain dead as footballers

Henderson and Dier is as bang average a midfield as your going to get at international football
Thank £#%&! we didn't get Dier. Moves like Frankenstein in that midfield

Sorry I still don't see it with Ali
Yeah he gets goals for Spurs arriving late into the box but as a number 10 he's absolutely shite
Dwells on the ball and then gives it away

Originally Posted by Sparky***

The england team of the last 5 years has honestly been the worst england time i have seen. And i include Graham Taylor's England team in that. Better england teams haven't qualified for tournaments, how this utter shower keeps qualifying for major tournaments is beyond me.

England for the past 40 odd years has never had the best team out there but £#%&!ing hell they at least had several decent players in the past. This lot are just bang average, all of them. They all look miles better than what they are surrounded by foreign players in the premier league, when in reality they aren't up to much.

I have no idea what England are doing in regards to developing footballers because we seem to be getting worse at it.

Tbf it derives from the same mentality that sees coaches who actually try to implement modern tactics and coaching derided as arrogant or psuedo footballing intellects. English football sneers at tactical detail ("it's a simple game ffs") and then wonders why its players are braindead.

Rashers

So many players taking the wrong option... who coaches these £#%&!ers?

Great goal Rashers

Marcus

Quite like the look of this Rashford kid

Lovely

The Rash

I'd retire from international football now if I was him.

What a player

The state of English press/commentary.

An attacker loses the ball for a goal. Aye he is shite.

Sets up 1 then scores. Aye he is great.

Arseholes.