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Thought that my post had been reported. I`m not that bad am i?...:D:angel:

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Even I a non interested football hating ingrate can see that you are talking out of your derrière.

This Man has taken several international titles with differing teams and won very well.

It's the over paid arrogant big headed twonks of players who could not find their own backsides even if their heads were stuck on backwards...

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Too many individuals, not enough team players unfortunately IMO.

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:clap: :clap:

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England and Capello`s choice of trying to put square pegs in round holes has been a total shambles. Why play a system which most of the players aren`t used to? Why play players in positions they aren`t used to?
Just because they are the best players doesn`t mean they will become the best team. If you look at the midfield, which i think is the root of the problem they are crying out for a player who sits just in front of the back four and a player who sits just behind the front two. This leaves you room for two more central/wide midfielders. The player who tucks in behind the strikers should be one of either Lampard or Gerrard both of whom make a case. When you try to accomdate a player, i.e. Gerrard by sticking him out on the left you are straight away moving from the norm.
English players are not good/disciplined enough to play in roles unfamiliar to them.

England should play a 4-1-4-1 type system which the players are used to. Do not put a player in the team because he`s great for his club in one position but that position is allready taken, let them show who`s best.
That has got to be one of the most tactically inept tournaments ever by an England side and i for one lay the blame squarely at Capello`s door...

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Suggestion

No picking of the england team. Let there be a competition for ALL players who WANT a position in the team to EARN that position. put the players who are hungriest for the role on the team.

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Interesting. Offside goal from Argentina, the players and then the linesman saw the mistake on the big screens and it all kicks off. The Mexican players surrounding the linesman, who now can spot his mistake and looks like he is wondering what he can do. The Argentina players then surround him thinking he is about to revoke the goal, but he can't.

Another argument for technology.

I do actually understand FIFA's argument. That it would create a bigger discrepancy between the higher and lower levels of football who would not be able to afford it. If not managed correctly it could cause a lot of disruption and even then video is not always clear, especially with fouls/dives.

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[hardhat on]
Where is a half-blind russian linesman when you need one? :D
[hardhat off]

Anyway I didn't see the game as I had to work but from what I managed to glimpse and listen to on the radio it seems that if it went 2-2 that score would be flattering to England and Germany would still hammer them.

At the end of the day whilst individually the England players have the skills needed to progress and challenge for silverware as a team they are distinctly average and I can't see how that will change with the current premiership setup and ridiculous wages putting them out of touch with normal people.

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The thing is in their respective teams they are supported by better players, who don't get the credit in the rush to hype and highlight the achivements on the British players.

Rooney, as good as he is, has excellent support at United from players like Nani, and Park. The system is set up to take advantage of Rooney and he is well supplied with excellent balls and runs from the less praised players in United's midfield.

Gerrard was much better with Alonso as well.

The team is quite weak in total, still a top 8 team but not as good as the better teams of the world who may have less 'stars' but better depth and quality throughout the team.

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The BBC have to stop treating Blatter and FIFA which such distain, it's stupid. Referring to his assistants are 'cronies' and rolling their eyes whenever they read a statement from them (like the worry about creating vastly different tiers of footballing).

I disagree with FIFA's position but still..

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How many of the supportive team members in the Manchester U team are currently playing for their own teams?

Seems to me we don't have enough world class ENGLISH players..

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Fletcher plays for Scotland
Nani plays for Portugal
Park plays for South Korea.

They are all international players of great quality, they just don't get the attention.

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From the Sepp Blatter page on FB



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Official petition to remove Sepp Blatter from office

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=130474000318597

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LOL - I knew it wouldn't be long before someone would come up with something like that. :D

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I'm the 18th member :D

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Both Sepp and Bernie are destroying the sport they are supposed to represent.

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Too soon? :D

TRIBUTES are being paid to Scotland today after the entire country laughed itself to death. The alarm was first raised at around 4pm as thousands of phone calls and text messages went unanswered.

Small groups of volunteers from Berwick-Upon-Tweed and Carlisle ventured north only to find houses full of dead people gathered around still blaring television sets.
As RAF helicopters flew over deserted city streets, it was clear that the whole country had suffered a catastrophic abdominal rupture.
Wayne Hayes, a special constable from Northumberland, said: "We went into one house in Dunbar and found three men sitting on the sofa with huge smiles on their faces, still holding cans of tennents. They seemed to be at peace."
He added: "In a house near Edinburgh we found a man face down on the living room floor with his trousers and pants round his knees.
"It seems he may have been showing his bare buttocks to the television when he keeled over."

Roy Hobbs, a civil engineer from Northampton, said: "I got a call from my friend Ian in Stirling at about 3:40PM
"He was already laughing when I answered the phone, but after about 25 minutes of the most vigorous and uncontrollable hilarity, everything suddenly went very quiet."

Moving tributes are already being placed along the Scotland-England border with many mourners opting to leave a simple bag of chips or a deep fried bunch of flowers.