England Friendly
 

I have noticed that the England friendly next week is only on setanta ireland, is this true as I am gutted if I can't watch the friendly, I want to see if the mind set and team has changed much since the world cup.

Does anyone know how I can watch it without setanta ireland.

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I am going to that game. Dunno about it being on TV though, try a local pub?

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England v Hungary? Wednesday 8pm ITV, not Scotland

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Sound cheers admars, looking forward to this should see a nice newish England team.

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That would be good to see, forget the Terrys and Carraghers of this world, let's build for the future.

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Well, it is a little bit different........

England squad for the friendly match against Hungary on Wednesday: Foster (Birmingham), Hart (Manchester City), Robinson (Blackburn); Brown (Manchester United), Cahill (Bolton), A Cole (Chelsea), Dawson (Tottenham), Gibbs (Arsenal), Jagielka (Everton), G Johnson (Liverpool), Terry (Chelsea); Barry (Manchester City), Gerrard (Liverpool), A Johnson (Manchester City), Lampard (Chelsea), Milner (Aston Villa), Young (Aston Villa), Walcott (Arsenal), Wilshere (Arsenal); Bent (Sunderland), C Cole (West Ham), Rooney (Manchester United), Zamora (Fulham).

But not much, it's a start I suppose.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...-gibbs-capello

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Make that one less.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...-football.html

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Make that two less.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8896134.stm

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Hopefully Terry and a few others will follow suit. I do believe Carragher was called out of retirement, hopefully he will re-affirm his former position. ;)

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There does seem to be a major kommunycashun problem between the fringe players and Mr Capello.

I wonder if he'll now call up that English legend Dennis Law :D

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I think he already has

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I get the feeling too many players will be worried about getting injured before the season starts and put in a half hearted effort for 45 mins before they get subbed.

As Damien is going hope I am wrong. Great stadium even if you can't get a beer for half the games anymore !

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Which is where the south africans excel..

Last time I was at Newlands watching the rugby I was suprised at how many fans was drinking coke, until I noticed a lot of pocket fumbling everytime they opened up a new tin..

http://totpak.co.za/25ml.html

Suprised Totpacks are not more common in the UK

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Alcohol on sachets thats criminal :D

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Stevie Gerrard finally learns how to play football in an England top. Shame it's taken him around 6 years though

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Well done boys, looking forward to the next game now.

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Unfortunately I didn't get home in time to see tonights game, so I can't really comment, but I know what you mean, Gerrard seems to have improved since being made captain, perhaps having that authority is what makes him tick.

More importantly, how did the youngsters do ?

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I can't help wondering if its due to Lampard not playing, so he's free to do what he does best.... I didnt see the whole game, so i'm not sure if he started?

The youngsters did well, i don't usually enjoy England games but this was actually quite entertaining and they gave a positive show for the future imo ;)

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Lampard started. Yes we won and we looked a little better but it was still in patches. We still gave away the ball far too much and lets be honest they may have been the best side in the world but that was a long time ago. They are 63 places below us in FIFA rankings and not made a tournament since the 80s. Not being able to keep the ball against them is a bit of a worry

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That pretty well sums it up. Their guy on the right cut i na couple of times and if the quality of the crosses had been better there could have been problems. I think Lampard, Cole and Gerrard played well overall, Rooney was looking jaded. No one really bossed the midfield.