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oh, I see. thank you The Daddy! but I'm sure when I was watching the U21's once I heard the commentators say that someone was 24?! hmm, I've seen the clips on sky this morning - there really was a huge divet, but why on earth didn't robinson have his eye on the ball rather than the pitch? he knew there were divets, and the ball wasn't heading for him that fast..

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Can't you have three over 21s in the U-21s? Sounds odd, but I think this is the case, or was, or I've been drinking too much and hallucinated it.

Cos the only defensive cover was Phil Neville (haha) and he got injured in the warm up?

Drop the lot, I say, and stick some Arsenal players in. That's what they're missing. Mind you, we'd have to play five-a-side and borrow a couple of players off the other lot.

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Well, Scotland were dire last night, never got running and were well and truly humped by the Ukraine. The ref was a shambles and gave some really terrible decisions but the result was justified either way.

In some respects i'm glad as it brings us back to earth after the France game, but i hate it when we lose and play bad.

Seeing that England "own howler" go in though cheered me up no end - the whole pub started laughing.

Anyone got a youtube link?

Well done to the Welsh by the way, great result and an excellent performance, the Republic did not to bad either by all accounts.

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I can't believe a Scot is actually trying to have a pop at a goalkeeper, have you forgotten some of the cloth handed incumbents of the Scottish goal down the years

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Who would have thought that after games against Spain, Denmark and Latvia we would have had 7 points out of 9.

Who would have thought 4 games in we would have had the same number of points as England.

How things have changed in Norn Iron football.

Euro 2008 here we come. ;)

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Yes.

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Why would playing Arsenal's reserve team be any better for?

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BB King - but surely if Ashley Cole is so obviously injured, he should just hobble off anyway, because there is no point in making it worse.. *wonders if Jose has said anything yet*

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I think this is the case for the Olympics.

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well what a load of rubbish that was.. very dissapointed and feel sorry for the fans that went out there to watch it

it was clear after the first half that the system wasn't working and once again an England manager showed that he had no way to turn the game around.. even before they scored the system should have been changed

if we weren't so negative passing back all the time then maybe Gary Neville might have played the ball up the pitch and not back to the keeper

Watching Gerrard and Lampard and a few others they just don't put in the same effort for England as they do for their clubs

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Yes, lets feel sorry for those poor rioting fans.

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I think its cos they don't seem to train together much as a team? I've seen Lampard & Terry jogging around Fulham Broadway and the Royal Albert Hall :D

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England, along with premiership teams, when they play in europe, play far too negative a brand of football. The English top division, was always more successful, when playing a fast paced game. Look at just how successful it was through the late 70's up to the mid 80's. European teams never liked it when they were pressed constantly. Why we adopt this style of negative, keep ball, simply because the rest of europe do, is a mystery. Hence the reason I find international, and european football, tediously boring. Give me the premiership any day, although even that is slowly heading towards a european style.

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Breaking News

Theo Walcott to start for Arsenal ! :shocked:

Anybody know anything about this player ? I believe he used to play for southampton. :D

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Hi
Yes he was Arsenal brought him for £12m, last season, he scored two goals for the EnglandU21's against Germany he's nearly as fast as Henry and is only 17:)
michael

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Perhaps pedantic should change his username to ironic. :rolleyes: :D

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Ironic ? Nah.........I was simply taking the p*** ;)

:banghead:

:D

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All right then, sarcastic,:cool:

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Bad news about Petr Cech

Though what do people think about the challenge?

Mourinho seems to be blaming Hunt, yet after seeing the challenge, it looked like an accident, with Cech sliding into Hunt. Hunt didn't put his foot out or change his run, just that Cech couldn't stop after collecting the ball.

...also, Bolton have offered to lend them a goalie...

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Don't forget, according to Mourinho it's always the other players' fault.

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I think of the two keepers, I would have thought Cuduccini would have come off worse, the tackle on Cech looked harmless at the time.

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These things happen, it was an accident, course Mourinho's blaming someone else, he always does. I tell you what though this will hurt them, I think Cech is their best player

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when i saw them both at the weekend the one on Cech seemed to be hardly any contact at all .. i think it was an accident he wasn't kicked or anything it was just contact with is alot different to deliberatly being kicked

the second one also seemed to be an accident although maybe the Wigan bloke could have done abit more to get out of the way

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The Wigan bloke could have done a lot more to get out of the way - particularly seeing as he had to drive all the way to Reading in the first place ;)

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so you fell into my cunning trap of me writting the wrong team name down :D

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Damn you :D

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To be fair though that Sonko could form a wall by himself, I would imagine that you could give yourself a concussion just bumping into him let alone running into him

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one thing this did show

i hate all the diving and play acting and stuff that goes on and the 15 roll overs after you get tackled

looking at the Cech one at the time i thought he was making a meal of it like alot of players do when they aren't really hurt at all.. so you can'y always be sure.. however he didn't keep rolling over about 15 times from side to side and neither did Cuddicini either

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A good indicator is the more they role the less they are hurt ;)

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that's what i don't understand surely someone at the FA, UEFA and FIFA must have noticed that EVERYONE who rolles over all the time somehow manages to get back up and keep playing but when they just lie there they are injured

not letting the trainers on until the ref says so has helped but it's not enough

as i said before the only reason bungs were looked into is because that means money going out of the game.. with diving and stuff only the fans get cheated out of the money they paid to get into the ground

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According to the Express, Cech wanted to play on with his injuries :tu: but Chelsea want the ref punished because he made him crawl of the pitch :rolleyes:

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well Wenger reckons someone will be killed soon :Yikes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...em/6057730.stm

what does he want maybe they should wear protection like they do in ice Hockey ?

seeing as this hasn't happned to a keeper in about 100 years of playing i think they should be ok

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The only time I can think of was a Celtic keeper dying during an Old Firm clash in the 1930's after a collision with a Rangers player.

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There will be no opposing player allowed inside the penalty area soon, mark my words! Mark my words! ;)

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Seriously I can see it becoming a non contact sport in the next couple of years

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Unfortunately... :(

The thing is, goalies have been getting protection from the ref for a while now. I've gotten used to the ref giving a freekick as soon as an opposing player gets within a inch of the goalie...

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u are right Mal and the keepers are using it to their advantage.. half the time at Palace Kiraly stands behind all the players and then just runs into the back of his own men knowing the ref will stop play as it looks like a foul

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Man United 1, Copanhagen 0 so far - they reckon Rooney might get pulled off at half time.

Lucky old Wazza! Most players only manage a bottle of Lucozade.

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Boom tiss!

(And no thats not meant to be the sound of rooney at half time)

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Saying that, Rooney still couldn't hit a cow's @rse with a banjo tonight :(

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good win but we still could have done so much better.. still not sure on Saha.. ok he puts the ball in the net a few times but how many goals does he actually create out of nothing like Henry can ?

been reading them comments from mad Jens about how a keeper will be crippled soon

he's really one to talk seeing as he's stamped on people a few times.. and that's just what i've seen since he's been in the prem if he's done it here i'm sure he's done it through his career

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Latest FIFA Rankings (don't look Russ D!)

England - 5th
Scotland - 25th
Northern Ireland - 45th
Republic of Ireland - 49th
Wales - 77th

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Bolton's next signing?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...480291,00.html

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Who has got the right version of events? ;)

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According to the version of events Cech arrived in the dressing room at 17:24 and the ambulance arrived at 17:52. So it could have been that Maureen assumed or was told that the ambulance was called straight away rather than later.

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Whose responsibility is it to phone an ambulance then, not Reading's, surely.

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It would be Chelsea's. But like I said maybe Maureen assumed or the doc covering his **** told him it was called earlier.

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I would have thought it was better to confirm exactly what happened before putting out a statement which could appear to criticise Reading FC and the Ambulance service. Especially after what Maureen said about the initial challenge.

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Hallelujah

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6039052.stm

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Shame you have to dirty it with your team. :D

Maybe you should invite the Germans across for the first game... :p:

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Or Scotland the thrashing we'd give you would Christen the stadium nicely :p: :)

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Didn't happen the last time we played you down there did it... :p:

I say bring it on!

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We took pity on you guys, after the thrashing we gave you at Hampden, if we hadn't let you win, Scottish football might not have ever recovered :p: :)

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Actually, even though your obviously delusional and appear on this forum to be what Alan Davies is to QI, it has raised a rather interesting point.

We do need to play each other again, i mean - 7 years (and counting) without any Scotland v "Those southern nancies" match is too long a time.

We should have a kind of 4 nations tournament every other summer IMO, in between the European Championships and the World Cup.

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Well if Scotland ever qualified for the finals we might get to play each other more often :p:

Although I don't see why we can't reintroduce the Home Nations Championship

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But why ?

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English Hooligans i believe.

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Northern Ireland reigning Champions!

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Come on every time you lot were down here it took weeks to clear up the pish and puke

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Well, if they call it a Championship or a Cup, it sounds like they have qualified for something at last ;)

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I cant help it if you lot **** yourselves at the sight of the tartan army coming down the road or if your physically sick when we whoop your ass.

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More like you chaps were just trying to remind yourselves of home before the long walk back

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Trivia Question....

Name four players past and present who have played for their respective home countries, but their surnames are names of other countries.

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Mike England and Alan Brazil spring to mind.

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Yep.

Their respective home countries ?

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Wales & Scotland IIRC

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Correct.

Two more to get :)

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Need some clues ?

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Yes

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Ok, one is a current player, the other is from the 70's/80's


The next clue if you need it will be their former clubs

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Next clue ?

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Ok, I will post the next clue anyway.....

The current players former club was Ipswich Town, he now plays for a Premiership side.

The 70's/80's player former club was Manchester United

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Sorry in advance yesman for beating Cambridge in the Derby friday :D

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:D

It could be a massacre sda, you cheeky bugger ;)

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Last clues

The current player is with Charlton Athletic

The 70's/80's player recently managed Portsmouth on a caretaker basis

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matt holland (Ireland) and Joe Jordan (Scotland)

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Spot on nffc :tu:

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Right. Next question, and is quite difficult....

There are five current football managers who have managed over a thousand league games throughout their careers, who are they ?

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Lawrie McMenemy

has to be one of them :tu:

:)

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Is he still a manager?

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Fergie and Dario Gradi are two I can think of.

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I don't care :D

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Okay, Brian Clough then :p:

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Correct.

Just three to go :D

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As a clue for another, think of a common English surname, there are plenty in most telephone directories :erm:

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Sorry Gaz, current managers only ;)

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Jim Smith?

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Harry Redknapp and Neil Warnock have to be close if not 1000.

Denis Smith has 1139 according to Soccerbase.

I'm just a tad suspicious of a sting in the tail on this one... maybe a Scotland manager or one who's currently international?

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Od dear Hargreaves maybe on this way to United after all :rolleyes:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...413092,00.html

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Not sure about this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/6070052.stm

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Never liked football stadiums with running tracks.

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Me neither. It gets better for us though apparently the latest chap trying to take over the club can't afford it without putting the club in debt, we have been here before haven't we :mad: :td:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/6065278.stm

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Questions answered correctly so far are....

Fergie
Gradi
Warnock
Denis Smith

One to go :)

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Brian Horton

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Nope

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I think Turner is manager of Hereford so a lot of his matches were non league

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Horton

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Its wrong sorry

Wiki

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Wasn't Turner Manager of Shrewsbury for quite a while ?

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What's wrong?

I think he played for them ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Turner

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As I see it, and as the original question points out.........

Horton is currently unemployed afaik

I am still looking into it

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Yesman: Are we looking at just English-based managers, or is Scotland included too?

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English based nffc.

However, after doing a little research earlier this evening, Graham Turner looks to be the final candidate.

Unfortunately my source of info is currently on holiday in Egypt, so I can't confirm for sure for ten days.

It looks like a toss up between Horton and Turner though

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536 at Hereford according to that wiki link.

Checkin Soccerbase:
Hereford 584
Wolves 383
Villa 105
Shrewsbury 243
total 1315

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Thinking about it, I am not sure any Scotland based managers would qualify, but I could be wrong

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It was a very smart question then, as Horton has (I think), only just become unemployed.

I take no credit for the question :)

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2-0 :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :D :D :D

Top way to end the weekend ;)

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It has to be said - there's nothing like beating Liverpool :)

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United are sruggling to see off Crewe, albeit with a second string side. penalties are imminent.

I take that back, United have just scored.

FT Crewe 1 Utd 2

Good effort by Crewe

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Lucky! :D