Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

and get over this mental block of depending on one player to save them. in the past you had Beckham, now it's Rooney. The whole team seems to lift when these players come on, but England are more than capable of playing at a higher lever when they are not on the pitch as well. There's a huge dependancy and it isn't fair on the player in question.

Oh, and can the BBC PLEASE stop refering to England games, past and present, every 10 minutes during EVERY game they cover even when England are not playing!!! GAH!!!

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I agree with that post 110% - long balls kill us, we have a fab midfield and need to utilise it a lot better than we are...:mad:

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m8, that ****es me off royaly too.:tu:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

lol

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Mon the Sweden! :D

She's a true blonde under that ball too i can assure you!

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Go ahead, support IKEA. We all know what it's like. Once it's taken apart, there's no way to get it back together :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

LOL, im not really supporting them, im more not supporting England.

Good luck to Holland today too - i really would like them to do well! :tu:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Thanks. We'll need it ;)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

too true - Cocu is in the team!!!

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

All this England bashing and any one but England is nonsense. As Alan Green (he's Northern Irish) on Radio Five Live said last night before the England game, it's pathetic that anyone form Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland would not want to see England do well.

I support England, but would always want any of the home nations to do well.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

It was a topic on 'The Wright Stuff' on channel 5 today actually. There were one or 2 Scots who called up to say they were supporting England, but most were not! I quite agree with you though, still the UK. The 4 countries should be backing eachother. I think it's all historic, when the English persecuted anyone they could catch unless they saw things the way the English King / Queen did at that time.

Still, I doubt I'd see the Spaniards supporting Portugal or the Polish supporting Germany, so ho-hum...

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Everyone's going home eventually, Scotland normally long before anyone else.

This is the team that Sweden couldn't score against even though they only had 10 men on the pitch? Yet we score 2 and up go your Swedish flags, you hate England, we get it, there's a lot of your sort all over the British Isles.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

:LOL: :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Yeah, i know - ever wonder why?

By the way - i keep seeing this stuff about the UK and "The British Isles" etc you seem to forget that for most people outside England thats completely irrelevant.

God you lot are soooo arrogant sometimes, WHY should we support you anyway? Why are you saying one minute we should be supporting you then slagging Scotland off the next in a cheap attempt at a wind up?

Its laughable, a bit like your World cup chances.

Sweden!!!!!

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Is it really irrelevant?

Because England are one of the home (i.e. United Kingdom) nations

I think England, provided they play to their strengths, can do very well in this World Cup. Any other team that had world class players such as Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney, and Terry, you simply would not be writing off so easily.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Exactly, he's not slagging England off based on what he's convinced is their lack of talent, it's purely to try and get a rise out of other people, fingers crossed he'll crawl back under his bridge and resume platting his chin hair.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Your lot never went anywhere to go home from ;)

Like I said before, not a great performance, but we got the 3 points in the end and we qualified without having to worry about the last game, which in itself is a good thing.

Oh and I have never said that we are 100% certs to win. I am just glad to be there and hope and pray that we go far.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I notice too that TBR didn't have a comment about his new favourite team not being able to beat T&T, whilst England racked up a 2-0 win... :rolleyes:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

To be honest, I wouldn't say that it's pathetic that they don't want us to win. I believe in "support your own team". Fair enough.

In the domestic league, I don't support another team in Europe, just because they are English. :shrug:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Exactly what is it you are doing then?


Proves my point I think.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

If Trinidad and Tobago are known as T&T, why aren't Serbia and Montenegro known as S&M?

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Let's be serious for a minute... England were favourites to qualify from this group and 6 points from the 1st 2 games, for a team with ENglands class of player, against PAraguay and T&T should have been a formality.

The reason, IMO, that the non-english are keen to slag of england during the World Cup is that we have this attitude that we are destined to win the WC or EC. Its always a case of "Yes we will be bring the worlld cup home after 30 years ..." or "we can beat the argies.the brazilians...the germans" etc etc. If instead of this arrogance, england said we are expected to qualify from teh gropu and everything else will be a bonus, I'm sure more people outside england would support them.
England aren't amongst the best in the world... The quicker they realise that, the more respect they will get from home nation fans who arent english

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

But what's so wrong with believing we could win it? England DO have some of the best players int he world, and we have every right to believe we could win it. Because indeed, we CAN beat the Argies (although, they are on fire today! :erm: ), we CAN beat the Germans etc etc etc. It just depends on our form on the day :shrug:

England ARE among the best in the world, and we'ver just proved it by getting into the knockout stages.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Wasnt it obvious from the start - this is the anyone BUT England thread - if you dont like it - move on...

Im not slagging off England, im merely stating that they have played very poorly up until now and that i want anyone but England to win the world cup, am i not allowed to state my views?

And again we get another racist stereotypical Scotsman dig in an attempt at a wind up. Very poor form!

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I'm afraid you're wrong, any team that qualifies for the knockouts are "amongst the best in the world"

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Where's this stereotypical racist dig at a scotsman? You're getting paranoid now. Be a man, admit your reasoning behind starting this thread, everyone else has already realised.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

England have one of the Best squads in the world, no doubt - perhaps the best even.

You dont have a team though - that is why you will lose and go home with nothing.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Eng-ger -land, Eng-ger -land, Eng-ger -land, Eng-ger -land.
Eng-ger -land, Eng-ger -land, Eng-ger -land, Eng-ger -land,

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Yes, you are. I've not seen you mention how poor France played the other day - and lets face it, they were ****. You're on a mission mate, don't try and deny it. You've got the hump because ONCE AGAIN, your country dont even get a day trip, and we're in the knockouts.

Um, he called you a troll more or less, which is nothing to do with you being scottish or not.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

As for my reasonings for starting the thread and being a man et all, perhaps you should check the thread title!

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Why is calling you a troll 'another racist stereotypical Scotsman dig'?? Trolls are trolls mate, whatever bitter nationality they happen to be :shrug:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Perhaps that's a recent Glaswegian fad that I've accidently highlighted :erm:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I didnt mention France the other day for the same reason i didnt mention the Ivory Coast, Australia, South Korea etc... They werent the topic of conversation at the time.

Oh - i dont have the hump it was no surprise that England would qualify from the easy group (even though you did make it look hard i will admit), the fun starts after the next stage.

With any luck you will get Germany though...

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Ohh you bite so easily :D

England won't win the World Cup. Just accept it - I have!

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

:rofl: :rofl:

Nah. I just think its a bit brassed necked to start accusing people of being nationality-racist, when they've started a thread called 'the anyone but england thread'. pot and kettle etc... ;)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

No, you're that predictable that you'll mention any team playing against England. If Saddam Hussein had by some freak accident concocted a reasonable team that were playing against us you'd be all "'mon the eyeraqi's!!!"

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Not really racist though is it - Im not slagging off the people of England, im only stating that i want anybody but England to win at the World Cup for reasons stated earlier and which have nothing to do with the nice people south of the border.

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Im hoping you get the Germans mate - but yes, i would have supported Iraq.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Agendas, I know. They're a bugger, aren't they?!
I wasn't even talking about the groups... and easy as it was, some countries couldn't even get THAT far, so still an achievment :)

Yep, and paste them 5-1 again. :D :rofl:

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NOt really, just wondering what the seemingly pointless wink was for.

Engalnd might win, and they might not. Let's wait and see, eh?

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I wouldn't have expected you to have seen the point of the wink ;)

Whoops, there's another :D

Oi - find your own material :p:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

It's unfortunately commonplace, especially in Scotland to hate every attempt the English make at something, they love to see us fail, I think they're still bitter about getting their asses kicked at Culloden.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Obviously something religious then. Not missing much.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

:D :D :D

Resorting to cheapshots eh? Sounds like a little insecurity about England is creeping in :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Just like your bitter that we gubbed you at the Rugby last year i suppose etc, etc.

We could go around like this all night to be honest but its boring and i dont care.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Not especially, don't think I've ever seen England play rugby, wouldn't interest me anyway.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Just like talking about battles which happened hundreds of years ago in which thousands of people were killed on both sides dosent interest me either.

Not to mention the fact its completely irrelevant.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Actually, as a mod, if I don't like a thread (not that I don't like this one), I don't have the freedom to move on.. But that's off topic.

I just thought it nicely ironic that you criticsed the English for slagging off the Scottish in a cheap attempt at a wind up then, erm, slagged off the English in a cheap attempt at a wind up..

BTW, is it true that the Scottish footy team have bought cheap day returns?

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I think you want to add Argentina to that. Scary stuff against Serbia :disturbd:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Ah, Rugby - another world cup that England won, and that Scotland never have.

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Hell yeah! Just saw a few bits of that game in the canteen this afternoon - they now take a firm lead as the best team so far. :disturbd:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Ronaldino goes into the Brazilian changing room to find all his teammates looking a bit glum.
"What's up?" he asks.
"Well, we're having trouble getting motivated for this game. We know it's important but it's only Scotland. They're crap and we can't be bothered".
Ronaldino looks at them and says "Well, I reckon I can beat these by myself, you lads go down the pub."
So Ronaldino goes out to play Scotland by himself and the rest of the Brazilian team go off for a few jars. After a few pints they wonder how the game is going, so they get the landlord to put the teletext on. A big cheer goes up as the screen reads
"Brazil 1 - Scotland 0 (Ronaldino 10minutes)". He is beating Scotland all by himself!
Anyway, a few more pints later and the game is forgotten until someone remembers "It must be full time now, let's see how he got on".
They put the teletext on.
"Result from the Stadium "Brazil 1 (Ronaldino 10 minutes) - Scotland 1 (Angus 89 minutes)".
They can't believe it, he has single handedly got a draw against Scotland!!
They rush back to the Stadium to congratulate Ronaldino. They find him in the dressing room, still in his gear, sat with his head in his hands.
He refuses to look at them. "I've let you down, I've let you down."
"Don't be daft, you got a draw against Scotland, all by yourself. And they only scored at the very, very end!" "No, No, I have, I've let you down... I got sent off after 12 minutes"

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I didnt slag off the English!

There does appear to be a lot of English people in this thread though attempting to wind me up though by slagging Scotland.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

If you don't like it, maybe next time you'll think twice before dedicating an entire thread to your dislike of the English team.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

it ok BR, the way mingerland are playing they aint winning anything this year.

our other national team held them off for long enough, a team that is total pants..... bring on the Argentines to play them, hell even if they get Equador they will get beat.

they have no self mars to that team.

there is no i in team unless your mingerland


ik
P.S. i like your banner

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Don't forget your Day Riders for 2010 boys.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Can't help thinking that some members are jealous.. :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

We've already answered that one :p:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Please can you explain how you know this? And while you're about it can you PM me this week's lottery numbers.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Because they're not good enough?

You should know about me and gambling :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Well, we can argue that point all night, but shouldn't you have said, England are unlikely to win the world cup, rather than state something as fact that you clearly cannot know to be true ;) .

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Shouldn't you have stated that you believe what I said to be untrue, instead of implying it to be fact? ;)

Oh and I'll stick my neck out here and say England won't win the World Cup - fact. I wish your national team well and I would like to see them win - but they won't.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I never said what you stated was necessarily untrue (as indeed it may be true) but I am interested in how you know it to be true. But this is getting a little silly and rather pedantic :)

We'll wait and see ;) .

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Easy - because they're not good enough to win it - so they won't. If they do manage it then I won't have a problem in admitting how wrong I was - after all, being a quarter English (on a technicality of course) means I'm not bitter - just not in love with England as you are :)

Careful - OB shouted at me earlier for saying that very thing and adding a wink like you did - wonder if she'll ask you what it's all about like she did for me??

Doubt it....:angel:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

:tiptoe:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

[QUOTE] Correction - they have the players to win it, perhaps not the team.



I know, and I was actually imitating your post :D

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And there's nothing wrong with a bit of pedantry now and again :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Ummm...nah, I think I was right the first time :D

Ah right - well you know what they say about imitation then :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I have never slagged off the country or the people of Scotland. Just the supporters who ditch their own team to support an opponent of England ;)

:scratch: Someone starts a thread to try to wind the English fans up...starts supporting England's opponents, not because he has link to that country...and then moans about the reaction to it... :scratch: a bit naive that...a bit like if I walked up to someone and punched them for no reason and then me moaning about them punching me back ;)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

hmmm... :scratch: thinking about next week now.....

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Holland looked like England in the second half. Nothing but long balls :disturbd: . Still, we won, and survived the group of death. Should be an interesting match against Argentina. :Yikes: :)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Moans? Oh no mate - you mistake my intentions. I was being accused of slagging the English people which i did not do - what i DID do is slag the English team to hell and back because they are - a pile a pee water.

Slag me and slag Scotland all you want, im not moaning about it - im just pointing out that whilst i keep my banter directed towards the English "football" team some on here direct attacks at Scotland.

As a proud supporter of Scotland and everything in it, i have no inferiority complex about my nation of 5 million citizens, so feel free - slag away.

In the end people - in the end - the result is the same...

YOUR GONNA WIN FECK ALL!

Why - as you seem eager to ask - well, you have no team, no bottle, and no chance!

To win the World Cup you need a team, you have a bunch of individuals.

I now wish you good luck - as i know your going out and it will do you no good anyway.

MON THE SWEDEN!

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I personally wouldn't say that England have no chance - however, I would say that we're going to have to play a lot better than we have done so far :shrug:

For the record, I obviously want England to win whoever they play - on the flip side, I'm quite happy for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic to go far in all competitions. Obviously, when / if they play England, I have no divided loyalties, but I do like to keep an eye out for all of the Home nations :)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Nice one Nug, it's a pity some of the sweaty socks don't have the same point of view.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Sweaty socks?

I take offence to that :mad:

ik

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Hey, I just assumed that he'd seen me take my shoes off :disturbd:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

:rofl:

Yes moans. You seemed a little shocked that the English fans would actually react.

Friendly banter between 2 sets of football fans, fair enough, but you seem to have gone off on a mad one about it.

I have never said that we would definitely win it. I have said that we hope that we do well and touch wood, do. Which fan doesn't? Do you go into a match/season without hope?

Anyways, have we pointed out that you have always won feck all? ;)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

excuse me........ the kirrin cup, granted it is pointless, and only on invitation. so there :D

ik

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Sorry ;) :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

A little shocked that England fans would actually react - eh - i fully expected it. :shrug:

If your going to rise to the bait i'll feed you some more.

I never insinuated you did say that, i simply pointed out that your bloody media do and continue to ram it down our throats even during games which have bugger all to do with England, I really dont want to know every time Sven has a dump.

There's nothing wrong with having hope either, just remember i'll be here when its dashed and we will all get along fine.

You can even come back and visit me - we can have a virtual cup of tea - and i can tell you why i was right alllll along.

Now - isnt that better?

Just remember - its only a game and this is friendly banter - nothing else.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Why moan then?

Like I said to Russ, take that up with the people in charge of the media, not us.

It makes me laugh that...it just sounds daft. I am not saying that you have to support England, far from it...it just sounds like that is all you want from watching football is to see England fail...your priorities are 90% England fail, 10% support Scotland...sad...

Anyway, you seem to be ignoring the fact that it is the taking part, which we are, which is important... ;)

Oh, I don't expect us to win it, so enjoy you time in the limelight... ;)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I think, within the context of the thread, TBR is doing ok.

This has to be one of the longest lasting trolls, without getting OTT for a while - mainly because TBR is treating it all as a joke ;)

As a half Welsh, England dwelling person, who was born in Malta & has a sister who has lived in Scotland for 20 years, I can only take a step back & smile :)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I will! :tu:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

You won't get limelight with your own team... :)

It's all gotten old hat for us, for when you don't qualify for anything... ;)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Yeah, a 40 year old hat! Since then all we've heard about is said bloody hat!

We've seen the original hat, we've analysed the hat, we've had the hat in glorious color, we've had the makers of the hat prance around on the telly telling us how the hat was won (on many, many occasions), how the hat was over the line, how the hat wasnt over the line, how the hat could be made again, how the dog found the hat, how the hat brought the "nation" together and finally 40 years on they still talk about the hat during games not involving the bloody hat.

Your right - it is old bloody hat - you just need to realise it.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Did I use the phrase "old hat" wrong? I thought that it meant that something was getting boring...hence why I used it with taking the mick out of Scotland failing...

My use of it had nothing to do with the "win". Paranoid are we? ;)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

And 40 years of England failing to do anything either hasnt become "old hat" or boring then.

Easily pleased... :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

At least it's better than the dawn of football of Scotland failing to do anything :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Just remember 1967 mate!

Your first game after the World Cup - at Wembley - when they Tartan army came to visit - guess who won!

Not only that - we took the p*ss!

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Did that win a cup though? But I suppose that it was like a cup final for you though :)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

No cups, just the smug knowledge that the so called World Champions were in fact just - well - rubbish.

So bad in fact that the lowly, crappy Scotland humped them off the park - on their own ground.

I mean, we only have a TENTH of the population that you guys have and still - humped.

Off the park!

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

It has to be said that this thread has made me smile on more than one occasion :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Like I said, your cup final. It's the only chance that you will get to be happy watching a Scotland game...it's good that that is all you aspire to...beating England, not qualifying for a tournament and doing well there... ;)

Also, I thought it was 11 men against 11, not population against population. If you use that rule, China and India should win everything...

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Why is it that Scottish and Welsh people hate the English, but we aren't arsed at all about them? Do they have a complex?

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Can't speak for the Scots mate but I don't hate anyone on the basis of their nationality. What I do get annoyed at is how the media is crammed full of stories about England when they play yet when Wales, Scotland or Ireland have a game the coverage is greatly reduced. I doubt you remember much about it but when Wales won the 6 nations 2 years ago, did the NotW, The Sun etc have a souvenir pull-out poster of the team?

I pay the same as you for newspapers and tv licence fee so can you see why I'm unimpressed?

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Its not population against population, your trying to put words in my mouth - naughty!

I said that we are 10 times smaller than you in terms of population, which means, seeing as i have to spell it out for you, that we have a far smaller pool of players to draw from.

If you then take that in its context and apply it to 1967 you will see that at the time when England were supposedly at thier footballing zenith - we - a humble nation by comparison to the mighty English humped you!

Off the park!

We dont hate the English - read the thread please.

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Like I said before, take it up with the people in charge.

Lobby them, protest outside their offices, get a petition... ;)

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Good to see that you missed the China/India thing then ;)

Like I said glad to have helped give you something to be happy about. I know it was the only time though ;)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Or even post my views on an internet discussion board ;)

I certainly have nothing against English people - why would I? My grandfather was English :shrug:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Unless they frequent this board, it wasted energy and just annoys people who cannot help you ;)

I never said that you did :shrug:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Perhaps some of those people need annoying ;) :D

Just making it clear - some people seem to have the wrong end of the stick :)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Off the Park! :p:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

It's just a shame that you never saw it and will never see it again ;)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

How wrong have you been tonight Mal - I have it on DVD! :D

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

For the way that I have posted, blame TBR, he started it ;)

Me? I haven't said anything like that...

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In real life ;)

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

I blame the English really :angel:

Re: The anyone but England thread!
 

Denial you are in...