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From an England fans point of view, I think I would relish this

Thoughts?

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I think it's a bit harsh on McClaren, people talking about sacking him already, he's only been in the job a few months and we are on course to qualify. I don't see the problem with McClaren, i think he's done okay so far and he deserves his chance.

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good and bad i guess. Not sure how well he would do with limited time in the International role with players.

he was lucky with Porto when a valid goal was ruled out to get to the final then with Chelsea he had millions to spend each year i'm not sure if he is as good as he thinks he is

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Sammy Lee leaves Bolton

By mutual consent...........yeah ok. ;)

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I like the fact that McClaren has not resorted back to playing Lampard even though he is recovered from injury.

However Im not too sure about his overall decision making. I just wish he would drop Robinson, I cant understand why he's kept so much faith in him, even in the friendlies. And surely bringing back Heskey, although he played ok, isnt the best thing for the future of the England team. I dont think England needed Heskey to beat Russia at wembley.

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He's kept Robinson in because he has only conceded 2 goals in 10 competitive international matches and they were both in the same game, so thats nine clean sheets, not bad if you ask me.

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Theres a difference between keeping a clean sheet as a result of not having too save a shot (because of your defence) and actually pulling off good saves. Robinson has dropped a few clangers, and in my opinion Green (West ham keeper) or even Carson should have been given a shot, at least in the friendlies.

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Since England lost, what happens now?

If we fail to beat Croatia and russia win one of their games are we out?

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you got that correct there Damien :) ....

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And if England beat Croatia and Russia win both their games England are out as well :(

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Yet another mistake by Robinson... :(

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waarom zo sip joh... weer eens een "rustige" EK ;)

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Nee, Nederland was goed :erm: Het wordt vnl. een heel kort EK geloof ik (en de Duitsers zullen wel winnen) :D

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van Slovenie alleen met 2-0 winnen is niet goed ... ach ja zoals je zegt Daniel gaan de moffen het waarschijnlijk weer winnen.

Nederland met geluk in de kwart finales... heel veel geluk

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Met Foppe de Haan kunnen we alles aan ;)

Toch fijn dat die Bulgaren punten morsten. Twee puntjes uit twee wedstrijden. Eitje :)

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I would like to point out that England have been going through a transitional period since July 1966, but things are beginning to turn around at last.....albeit with a few hiccups along the way :)

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Do I not like that! ;)

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Not really. I don't think he could have been expected to hold that shot. It was just unlucky it went to an opposition player.

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I think it was an goalkeeping error to, if he couldn't hold it he should of pushed it out for a corner, not back into the danger area, he made his own luck by doing that and lost

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Well is no-one going to mention Wales' glorious win? You know, a scraped 2-1 victory over San Marino who are officially ranked by UEFA as the least successful side in all of europe?

What a manager. Tosh by name, Tosh by nature.

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They can go either way though, sometimes physics makes it more difficult to push it out for a corner as opposed to stopping the initial shot.

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We would if we knew about it, but all sport on the back pages in England, as well as the news is all about England ;)

Scotland Vs Italy will be a cracker of a game.

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Time to start reading a decent paper then, match reports on all the home countries including ROI in mine,:p:


Jim.

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Glad you've finally acknowledged it :)

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hook, line and sinker..........

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Quite possibly. Some impartial reporting....

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstor...9520-19969484/

No, we didn't blow a glorious chance at all, we actually beat San Marino.

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Wales beat San Marino? :shocked:

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Your right such a shock result deserves more press

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Exactly - and did we get it? No - because England were playing.

---------- Post added at 18:52 ---------- Previous post was at 18:33 ----------

Moving on - the Chelsea 'exodus' begins?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ea/7051285.stm

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You certainly got a lot of press in the Welsh papers:

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/footb...football-news/

Why not buy them if you're more interested in reading about Wales?

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Because the Western mail and the Echo don't report much things outside Wales - I also want to know what's going on in the UK as a whole.

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Well they seem to have a fair bit:

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/uk-news

but if that's not enough, then get both - problem solved!

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You're looking at the media network website - that's quite different from the 2 sibling papers available around here.

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Aww, come on...this has already ruined the Rugby Union thread...don't bring it in here please...it's getting boring now...go get you're own thread ;)

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Fair comment! Maybe Russ could start a media bias thread if he feels that strongly about it.

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No point - none of the English will pick up on it :angel:

To be fair I did try to move things on with post 429 :Sprint:

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I know things are looking a little beter now, but Villa's goal....:confused: how can Luke Moore, walk from inside the United goal, right in front of VDS as the ball comes in and not be active. :mad:

PS. Whats up with Ronaldo & Vidic?

Jim.

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It was strange because VDS didn't seem to appeal, i thought when he headed it Young was right between VDS and the scorer? But what a first half comeback :D

Ronaldo travlled a lot during the International week and picked up a small knock and Vidic still hasn't recovered from concussion that he got against Wigan.

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Oops,I think it was Luke Moore, not Young.

The Villa defence was playing a game of Statues in the first half, :D

jim.

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High drama at Villa Park - they're down to 9 men, Rooney missed a penalty and it looks like more goals are coming.

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Only one more goal, but more important...will we see Nugget or Gareth tonight? ;) :D

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Probably - they don't support Arsenal.

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Lehmann's got a strop on... :rolleyes:

IMO he deserved to be dropped & Almunia's doing the job for them at the moment :shrug:

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If I was Whinger, I would kick his rear out of the door...

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Good results for the British teams tonight :tu: With Arsenal winning 7-0 :shocked:

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think the team wanted to give Wenger a nice birthday pressie :)

manu didnt do too bad either against kiev :)

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Drogba's backpedalling again.

Another one that wants kicking out...

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Someone sent me this and i can't think of the answer, i'm not sure if there is an answer to be honest.

Which is the ONLY current premiership player to have won medals in:

World Cup
European Cup
FA Cup
Champions League
Premiership
Confederations Cup
Intertoto Cup

At the moment i can only think of Anelka but i'm sure he hasn't got a medal in the world cup.

Any ideas?

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there isnt 1 Shadow am sure of that.

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Not in the prem but Fabien Barthez has won all those

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I don't think he won the FA cup.

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My mistake.

Don't think there is anyone then.

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It could possibly be an old question and it could be Henry, but i'm not sure about the intertoto cup?

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He hasn't won the champions league

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He has a medal in the champions league though.

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The question says won medals. Do you win a losers medal?

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Thats a good point, i thought it might be a trick question where it's someone who has runner up medals in the competitons.

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Jens Lehmann ?

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He hasn't got a European medal has he, or intertoto cup

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I really think this isn't real and someone has made it up to annoy people like me who don't give up. :rolleyes:

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did Bartez win the IntoToto cup though ? You would have thought a player with the quality to win all of that wouldn't even play in the two bob cup

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He won the Intertoto cup with Marseille in 2005, but as i said before he hasn't won the FA cup.

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am at a loss here Shadow....I know some1 that fits most of them but unfortunatly no World or European cup medal....

Edwin van der Sar

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I don't think there is an answer to be honest.

I had a search on google and theres a question, Which CURRENT premiership player has won the Champions League, UEFA Cup, Premiership and FA Cup? Which is Anelka, i think someone has just added the others thinking he was in the French squad that won the world cup.

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well Anelka does have the European cup medal ;) but not the WC.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas...Career_honours

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On the subject of football trivia questions I'll ask one.

When was the last time Celtic won an away game in a match for the Champions League or European Cup (Qualifying rounds don't count)

Not that I'm gloating or anything... :angel:

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The year they got to the Uefa cup final? Better than Rangers have done recently :angel:

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Think he is talking about the big Euro comp and it's fore runner, not the minor one ;)

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Hmmm... Berbatov swapping shirts at half time, think he's trying to tell MJ something? ;)

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Jol to leave spurs??

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Clive Allen in charge for Blackburn game on Sunday with Sergio Ramos taking over next week seemingly.

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According to this, yes...

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Official hes gone

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dont understand that sacking Jol will make any difference to the Spurs, it was more the mentality of the players that got them in trouble.

okay we shall see what happens from next week onwards

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He didn't get sacked he quit

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So, he quit before the game..Interesting...

Enter Mourinho :D maybe?

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Your wrong according to this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ur/7063013.stm

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can't remember who said it but I read a comment from one of the players who said "We are to blame not Jol" and that is correct.

They are the ones who aren't performing on the pitch yet they still get 40k or more a week.

I think Jol's quite a good manager really and the players have let him down

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You could say that about most managers that get sacked though, most of the time it's the players not performing rather than the managers ability. I think it was time for Jol to go, when you have a falling out with your best player (Berbetov) it's always going to be tough because he's not going to want to play under you again and wont give 100%. I think recently some of his tactics in matches have been poor which doesn't help players with low confidence and was part of his downfall.

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He's made mistakes, but I think the way he's been treated has been nothing short of appalling.

People are queuing up to slap Levy for smiling after Getafe's 2nd goal went in. He'd better watch himself. I'd be interested in seeing if any of the lad's mags lip readers pick up on it.

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I heard about that today, hopefully relegation will slap Levy in the face, let's see if he smiles then, although I can't see that happening.

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Any answer on this yet Shadow?

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Ramos quits Sevilla

So it looks like he'll be ours on Monday.

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It looks like a very good acquisition to me, he's done very well in Spain, and won back to back Uefa cups.

Jol is a decent enough coach, but this guy looks like he may just turn the notch up a little.

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Lets hope so. I'm a bit in two minds about Jol going. He as failed to sure up our defence over the summer, but as mentioned earlier, it's mainly the players performing sh*te that has put us where we are. 5th 2 years running and a really strong UAFA Cup run last year was no mean feat.

Regardless of this, the boards treatment of Jol and the way they have publically undermined him is shocking. i liked the way the fans gave him a standing ovation after the game.

Lets hope Ramos can do a better job (or as least as good a job) as Jol.

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Great goal by Nani today and the Tevez/Rooney partnership seems to be coming along nicely...

Also, Southgate had nothing to whinge about ;)

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I thought the same thing watching MOTD. Ronaldo must have dived or the ref must have not given them a penalty or something, surely?

The BBC must have cut it out of his interview :D

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Nani's goal was definitely a dive...how could he have scored otherwise??? ;)

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Juande Ramos confirmed as Spurs Head Coach.

Ramos will take the team for Wednesday night's fixture against Blackpool in the Carling Cup 4th Round.

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Utd's 3rd goal was fantastic, goal of the season.

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As for the Chelski goals, one should never have been allowed, both Lampard and Diddling Dogbreath were miles offside and did anyone else notice that four of the six goals went straight between the keepers legs.

Jim.

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What do you all think of Spurs chances of UEFA cup spot now? Or do you think they could still make the top 4 as they were aiming for at the start of the season?

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damien, I do think that spurs can go in the top 10 but no way in the top 5...

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The way they both are playing at the moment I think that Leeds Utd (:rolleyes: ) have more chance of a top five Premiership finish than Spurs, just think if they hadn't had 15 points deducted they would already be 11 points clear at the top of League One.

Jim.

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good point there Iadom.... leeds are coming back nicely...

but spurs are sinking at the moment and look at bolton they arent too far off either.

ow well see what happens next saturday table wise...

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Come May, Spurs will be there or there abouts as usual, it's just a shame about Jol.
And the smiling Levy.

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Paul Scholes out until next year. :(

Thankfully, Owen Hargreaves is easing himself back in, Carrick should be available soon and Anderson has impressed me in the past few games after a shaky start, have to remember he is only 19. In fact the front five of Rooney, Ronaldo, Tevez, Anderson & Nani have an average age of 21, just think what they will be like when they mature.:cool:

TBH both Scholes and Giggsy have not beem up to the usual high standards yet this season but their experience is something that you cannot easily replace.

Jim.

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the 2014 world cup will be in Brazil after today's coronation bid :)
It's about time Brazil where the hosts after all thay do play some of the best football in the world

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ls/7068848.stm

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Que?:D

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The PL referee appoints for this weeks matches: