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Must be his relatives that have set the fireworks off round here, it's almost like being in Basra :erm:

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Well, you got this one right. On balance of the chances created, the best team won. And what a way to do it. Score two against Germany in the dying minutes.

Cracking game...

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this was so far the best game of the WC.
For chances created Italy deserved to win, however Germany gave it their all.
when the italian coach threw on DelPeiro, he knew he did not want it to go to penalities.
this was a better game that the Argentina gamewhen they won 6-0

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i think(forgive my negativity here) that while one semi showed how to play football, the other semi might show us all how to dive :(

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yes i'm sure Viera will be doing some :D

thank God this is on the BBC and we don't have to put up with David Pleat.. how on earth can ITV employ him when he knows nothing.. comes out with a load of rubbish and can't even pronounce the player's names correctly

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Mind you, he's still better than Tyldesley!

Anyway, I think I'll have to revise my predictions - whule I think France will win tonight, if Italy play the way they did last night in the final, they're an absolute shoe-in to win.

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Did Tyldesley last night really say "My Brain Hurts" in a dumb sounding voice or did I imagine it?

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Well, I think you imagined it - does Clive Tyldesley have a brain?

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I heard that as well. :) Great commentary that...

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Nope, I heard it as well. I don't know if it was him though. It may have been someone else who didn't realise he was speaking into an open mic.

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What I did on my summer holiday
By Theo Walcott


I went to a place called Germany with my Uncle Sven and some other grown up's. It is a country in Europe where a bad man called Adolf used to live with his nazties, he does not live there anymore, Uncle Owen does live there, and the grown up's say I cant talk about the bad man as it will make Uncle Owen cry if I do. In Germany there are lots of castles and some mountains. We are staying in a place called Baden Baden that's a silly name, Uncle Frank has the same name as his dad, that's silly too, his mum must get their underpants mixed up all the time.

On the aeroplane Uncle Sol sat next to me, he got me some toffee and wants to be my friend, he works at the place where I do my YTS, so does Uncle Freddy but him and Uncle Sol are not best friends anymore.

Uncle Owen met us at the airport, he talks foreign, Uncle Wayne, Uncle Steven and Uncle David also talk funny, my mum says Uncle David talks like Orville, he is a duck, Uncle Sol say's uncle David wears dresses and knickers, and asked me if I had ever worn them. Uncle Sol got me some pop.

In Germany the grown ups are going to play football, my grandad says we beat them in the olden days before my mum was born. That is a long time ago.

While the grown up's went to play football so I went shopping with Auntie Vicky and some other girls she bought me a big ice cream and got herself a little one but she said she was full before she had eaten any and threw it away. She bought lots of shoes and handbags and let me play with Brooklyn. She say's she used to be in a pop band and sang me one of her songs, I think she was telling fibs.

I told Uncle Sol about my day out with Vicky and he sulked, then he bought me an even bigger ice cream with lots of hundred's & thousands on it.

All the other grown up's have a girlfriend except Uncle Sol so he plays with me while they go out. Uncle Sven says I must keep Uncle Sol happy, that's why I got taken on holiday.

The grown up's went to play Football against somebody called Sweden, Uncle Sol was crying as Uncle Freddy played for them and would not talk to him. Uncle Sol bought me lots of toffee today and some crisps. Uncle Sven is from Sweden and I heard him on the phone to their boss last night. Uncle Michael hurt his knee and had to go home to his mum for a plaster. Uncle Peter is a giant, a proper giant like you see in books, he is rubbish at football though.

Uncle Wayne had a sore toe at the start of out holiday but it got better so they let him play football. Uncle Sol got me a present but I do not like it. He says all Germans wear leather underpants and I should while we are here, they are too tight for me.


All the grown up's started to call Uncle Wayne a potato head who stood on somebodys spuds. He got shouted at by the referee. They are all saying that we have to go home now. Uncle Sol was crying again and I had to sit on his knee to make him stop. He had his mobile phone in his pocket, I think.

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:LOL:

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How could I have forgotten about this gem from Pleat last night until now..

"Isn't it lovely to see a pair of strikers playing with each other"

Breaking World Cuo News
 

**Breaking News**

It's alleged that one of the Portuguese football players failed a drugs and alcohol test after the match. If this is confirmed as positive, under FIFA rules, paragraph 6 sub section 2e, Portugal will forfeit the quarter final match and England will play France in the Semi Final on Wednesday.


Full transcript:




















































Carlsberg do not make forum posts, but if they did they would probably be the best posts in the world! :D

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MORE BREAKING NEWS:

The jury in the Saddam Hussain trial in Baghdad have found the former
dictator guilty on all counts.

The judge said that due to the severity of his crimes, he will be executed
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You jest, but wait 'till someone at Carlsberg see this...

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the daily mirror is reporting that the germany/italy match finished 0-0.

sounds like something football manager 06 would do

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What a cheating little sod Ronaldo is, diving theatrically to try and get a penalty :knock: I quite like the fact that everytime he gets the ball the crowd boo's like it's a Christmas Panto :LOL: All in all I hope France beat them :tu:

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Least he didn't get it, unlike that cheating little sod Owen in the last world cup.

He played well tonight, seems like he thrives on the boos.

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i think that game was summed up when portugal had a great chance to score and, instead of attacking the ball, 2 players chose to dive instead.

to be fair to portugal, you won't win a world cup if you play with 3 rubbish forwards

now if you would all excuse me, i'm just going to check on google to find out what "shmow" is

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True about Owen, I want to slap players who dive as it's just not sporting and is just blatant cheating. I'm glad France won anyway as I tipped them to win the World Cup. Ronaldo always looks like he is on the verge of crying and I bet he was the school snitch when he was younger, you know the kind that was always running to the teacher to tell tales......

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he probably just ran a few yards and then jumped on the floor claiming he was pushed over

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Crying when you've been knocked out of the world cup? Wouldn't get big tough English men doing that would you?






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Although it was nice to get the opportunity ;) :PP:

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Portugal got what they deserved NOTHING

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sorry but you're both wrong.

beckham was crying for getting taken off the field, not for us going out :PP:

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Yep, England were still in it then, I am not sure he was crying anyway

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the guy sat next to me at the time shouted at beckham - "for ****s sake, just go put on a skirt" :)

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Why? Had his missus forgotten or something :angel:

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Well Done FRANCE!!!!!!!

OH YEAH!!!!! I Gonna win £120 if they win on sunday! 12 - 1 at the start of the cup :D

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Apart from one little blip last night where Ronaldo (spit) did his Platoon impersonation and got a free kick, I would like to applaude the refs in last nights and Germany/Italy's game. They paid no heed to diving, rolling around, in other words, cheating. Last nights game was the most enjoyable to watch, not just because POrtugal got what they deserved, but because the game flowed. :clap: Just wish we'd had those refs in our games :(

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Funny how no one talks about Henry exaggerating his fall to make sure he got a pen. Imagine if that was Ronaldo.

Suppose I'll be told that this is an entirely natural way to fall. ;)


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Not true but it is what they deserve after rolling around diving and cheating most of the tournament, it's ironic a dodgy pen knocks them out.

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I just imagined that all the England fans who are disgusted by cheating (apart from when England cheat, because thats OK as you're just giving Jonny Foreigner a taste of his own medicine) would have been up in arms about it.

;)

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Henry was fouled though, it was a genuine penalty, so he can make as much fuss about it as he likes. I don't recall any stinkers from this tournament though, can you?

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So if that was Ronaldo last night who won that pen you would have been ok with it?

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i've seen the Henry one it i's a dive. you can see that after the contact he puts his foot down on the ground and then as the ball hs gone he dives and makes sure he falls over.. no one would fall over like that with that sort of contact

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Yes, if he'd been genuinely fouled, I'd have been fine with it. I want fair play in football, not bloody oscar winning fakes.

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I've seen the Henry one too - he did dive, but he did so to exagerate the fact that he had been fouled.

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Do you not think Henry's fall deserved an oscar regardless of the fact he was fouled?

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And you class that as fair play? Surely someone who wants fair play would be an advocate of players trying to stay on their feet.

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Speaking of dives - Grosso v Australia in Round 2.

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I'd rather there was no diving at all, of course. But if it follows a genuine foul, then it's by the by for me. It's when people dive with no foul having taken place, that's cheating, and I cannot abide that. Winning a game via cheating is the lowest tactic.

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Sure is.

Argentina 0-1 England
7 June 2002

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How did we cheat?

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Owen dived for the penalty

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And he wasn't fouled?

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Fouled in the same way Grosso was.

The defender did not make contact with owen, owen made contact with the defender. Similar to Pires against Portsmouth.

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diving and cheating is wrong and should be cut out whether it's a foreign team, England or even AJ for Palace it shoudn't be allowed

if you cheat and take drugs and get cuaght you get a two year ban

if you cheat and dive and get caught you get a bit if plastic waved at you and your name gets written on apiece of paper

it's plainly obvious that this is getting worse and the current punishment, a yellow card, isn't enough to stop this

the problem that FIFA and UEFA need to work out is that if a player jumps out of the way of a foul and there is no contact should they still get a free kick.. if contact is made but the player was going for the ball is that a foul ?

at the moment players would rather get a free kick or pen than actually stay on their feet and go for the ball and that is wrong

Eboue dived in the champs league final and i'm sure none of the Arsenal fans care about that.

stil at least none of the players were wearing jewelery during any matches and i'm so grateful to FIFA for sorting out a problem i know we were all deeply worried about :D

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Did he ?

I have watched that time and time again and still can't make my mind up

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yes he dived and that just shows the problem.. people aer so used to seeing this sort of thing and pens being given and some younger fans have only ever seen this that they think this is a proper foul and a pen

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He deliberately tripped over the defenders leg rather than the defender fouling him. Same as Grosso tripped over Neill rather than Neill fouling him.

Anyway back to slagging commentators. Did anyone notice Motson talking about the Abel Xavier look a like before Lawrenson kindly pointed out that it actually was him?

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i posted ages ago an on-line petition i had setup to try and get people to sign uo to show the FA \ FIFA what we thought of diving and i only got about 4 people sign it :-(

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On the subject of diving. Did anyone see the reaction from the Italian bench to an alleged dive in one of the early games? I thought it was hilarious. There were four blokes on the bench. The leftmost bloke waved an imaginary card, and the three to the right of him made a diving gesture (synchronized). It looked like they had practiced it. :D

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If that was the case, then I would not condone it, but, falling on the floor when there is nobody close to you i.e. Portugal, and I am not just talking about Ronaldo here, does look rather stupid, but the ref's choose to ignore it rather than red or yellow card the offender.
It is almost like FIFA are condoning it by taking no action against it, the mind boggles.
I think Cristiano Ronaldo is a class footballer, I just wish he would just concentrate his efforts on that rather than trying to con the ref all the time.

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Revenge ? ;)

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Come on, Germany!!!!!

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Sigh, Portugal still haven't learnt that diving and trying to convince the ref they were fouled is not a strategy for winning.

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i'd give bastian the hat-trick. if maxi rodriguez's second goal against serbia wasn't given an own goal, there is no way in hell that was

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I think the Ref's are a little tired of the little boy that cries wolf, all too often.

Good game that, more so the second half.

Final result: Germany 3 - 1 Portugal,

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they keep on advertising leonardo as a "world cup winner". does he really count as one considering he was kicked out of the tournament?

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I really hope this match does not go to penalties, it totally devalues the competition and who knows what will happen if one team shows a bit of courage.

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Italy To Win!!!! :)

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any bets on what was said?

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It was a mental thing to do, in his last game as well, maybe he wanted to make sure he not forgotten!

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That was a great header from Zinadine :D

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What a complete muppet Zidane was.

Well done Italy.

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Probably something racist re his arabic roots.....

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haha! I actually enjoyed watching him do that, he did everything in his last match, shone, scored and of course got a straight red! He'll not be forgotten.

Italy? Who would of thunk it :p

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Zidane was stupid to have done that - but as I said - Italy to win and they did! :D

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Congratulations to Italy.

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Zidane was as daft as Rooney was... the only difference was that Zidane had played brilliantly and had even scored before being sent off.

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yeah, i was thinking that too

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Lawrenson made me laugh for the first time, when after Motson told us yet again that Perrotta was born in England he asked him if that was all he knew about Perrotta

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New England Management system announced.

http://www.nomorefaith.co.uk/gallery/englandmanager.jpg

Wonder if we'll get it on NTL? :D

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Hmmm. A pericardial thump like that, depending on the timing of the heart, can stop the heart permanently.

I'd love to know what they do say to one another. I think they should all wear microphones, a la Big Brother :D

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He tweaked his nipple! Watch it again. You can excuse Zidane after you see the blatant nipple tweak.

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Really? I like my nipples being tweaked. Bit of nibbling too - gently though. I'd be a bit worried if he'd done that to Zidane, mind you. Not in public, please. Doesn't exactly warrant a head butt though :erm:

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I think he smiled after that. Then he walked away, turned back (presumably because something was said), and delivered the Glasgow Kiss. So sad, to see a great player go out like that :(

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So then now it is all over what did we think to it. Personally I found it exciting, although I think it needed a truly world class player to take the the competition by the scruff of the neck. On the whole though :tu:

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Nipple tweaking, and other forms of wind up tactics happen all the time. Zidane shouldn't have reacted to that, or any form of wind up. I see no difference in what Zidane did, and what Rooney did. They both were wound up by the opposition, both reacted, and were both sent off.

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I was only messing with the nipple tweaking.

He probably told Zidane to play for this own country.

Zidane is no stranger to headbutting

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on the whole, pretty good. better than i thought

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The whole tournament was a complete let-down.

If that's the best football the world has to offer, the level of skills really gone down.

The amount of blatent diving and crybabies really spoilt everything aswell.

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I think the tournament went down hill esp. after the group stages. There was too much blatant cheating, too many stoppages, too many stretchers coming on only for the player to get up as if nothing had happened, too many referees losing control, too many corporate tickets, laughable ticket allocations, and Christian Ronaldo. Fifa need to sort these issues out before the next world cup lest it descends into a shambles.

On the plus side there were some wonderful goals and a minimal amount of crowd trouble, which let's only hope can change the reputation of England fans once and for all (personally I thought the English support was fantastic and quite probably the best of the tournie).

The one change I would make if I was Fifa president was a directive that all players had to play to an effort and standard equivalent to their salaries. Not too much to ask is it?

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Changes I would make to football, add your own...

Injuries. Stop this nonsense of putting the ball out of play, if the ref thinks the injury is serious then he can stop play, otherwise play on. If a team wants to put the ball out of play to allow a team mate to get help then they can but they don't get it back.

Drop balls. Start contesting them again! We want to see feet flying!

Diving. Games should be reviewed and any player diving, or trying to con the ref should be banned for 3 games.

Instruct TV producers that people tuning into a football match want to watch football, not play spot the celebrity, good looking girl etc in the crowd. (Unless it is those two Sweedish girls kissing again).

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:LOL: ZZ wins the Golden Ball Award! :tu: :clap:

The only thing he did wrong yesterday was not wait until after the game to pound Materazzi's head in.

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HHHHMMMMMMMMMM....

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Somebody suggested on TalkSport that at the start of extra time each team should remove 4 players from the field of play. This would then open up space on the field and allow more attacking play.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

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Same three match ban for trying to influence the referee, you know by surrounding him, producing imaginary cards ect.

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Just been reported on news agency that an England player has failed a drugs test.











Theo Walcott was found with Calpol in his system.:)

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Zidane getting the award is complete rubbish. He was crap in the first two games, and suspended for the third. Fair enough he had a great game against Brazil. Was ok against Portugal.

Cannavaro should have won it by a mile, been great every game, didn't get a single yellow.

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Why do you do this to your team? (Not blaming you iadom)

They play their hearts out for their country and because they dont win the cup you round on them and take the ****.

Its disgraceful really the amount of stuff thats flying round at the moment and all it shows is bad taste.

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Probably because it was his last tournament and last games of a great carrear which deserves to be remembered for more than a headbut on a greasy italian.

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Fair enough but the Golden Ball is for player of the tournament, not for lifetime achievement.

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i didn't see them playing with their hearts at all.. after Owen got injured there was all this talk in the papers from beckham and others saying we will win it for Owen etc etc

i never once saw them raise their game and they never put in any effort at all.. several times i saw gerrard pull out of 50 \ 50 balls that in a Liverpool shirt he would have been a dead cert to win

Terry and Lampard failed to reach the heights of their club levels and once all the teams worked out J Cole only ever cut inside he couldn't do anything at all in the second round and quarter final


our best player was probably Hargreaves and he's hardley world class.. the fact that he out shone Rooney, Lampard, Gerrard etc who are world class players say alot about the effort the others put in

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I'm not a fan of Hargreaves and would never have thought he should have got picked for the team in the first place, but he WAS world class against Portugal, credit where credit's due. Rio Ferdinand (much as I don't like him either) was also fab. I think Gerrard started pulling away after he got carded and was worried about missing matches. Fatty Lamps was poor though. Joe Cole, agreed - although I do think his goal was one of the best of the tournament. Lennon is world class too, just didn't get enough minutes on the pitch.

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When half your team are played out of postion, captained by a moron and managed by an idiot what do you expect.

I would very much doubt Rooney would have been sent off if he didnt care and to be honest i truly believe nobody goes to the World cup finals and dosent give it his all.

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I can't believe I'm doing this but....

(Apart from the captained by a moron bit), I agree full TBR. :clap:

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If only England had listened to me earlier... ;)

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Chill out, that joke was from a German newspaper, I was simply passing it on.:cool: besides, I don't remember actually seeing him play,:p:

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Sorry mate - like i said i wasnt directing it at you - im getting flooded with England jokes where its either Ronaldo or the England team that are getting the crap ripped out them. (From England fans)

There's no need for it really. I take the mickey - but only because i support Scotland. We go out of tournaments all the time but we dont lay into the team like this, im actually feeling a bit sorry for what your doing to your team.

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What England need is a coach who will pick the best team, not the best players. Someone who if Lampard and Gerrard aren't working together will drop one.

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Be fair Raja, your lot don't go out of tournaments all of the time - they often don't reach them at all :PP: