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Old 28-06-2010, 01:07   #549
Horace
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Horace has reached the bronze age
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Re: FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa

I'm probably the only person in the whole world, with the exception of Capello that thought we did ok, the main problem was the bad linesman decision, we saw in the Mexico match how bad decisions like that really mess a team up, players try to 'get back' for the mistake and in turn lose concentration and tried too hard to score. It's no co-incidence that Germany scored two goals on the counter-attack, John Terry being at the other end of the pitch during one of them. Our defence behaved completely differently to all other games after that decision, it had been fine up until today and I don't remember any criticism of the defence during qualifiers or indeed the first three games. The problems were in mid-field and attack especially with do-nothing-Rooney being continually picked. If Capello did anything wrong it was sticking with players who continually prove their worthlessness in international matches. Capello or any future manager probably needs to start looking outside the Premiership or at least to lower-profile players that can play without having elite foreign players backing them up instead of being lazy and just selecting well known 'names'.
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