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Originally Posted by carlingman
You gotta love the way they blamed everything on the kickers. (well if you not English that is).
I like the way they forgot they played absolute ****e for 80mins.
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I like the way that people forget that for the first 40 minutes England absolutely dominated the game. The French were all over the place and continually giving away penalties (most of which were not converted
) Had a few more of those penalties actually gone over then there would most likely have been a different result.
The kickers have to take a fair amount of the blame since as was seen you need to keep scoring points even if you do have a big lead and they just didn't deliver.
But then the rest of the team let them down in the second half with some sloppy play and giving the French chances to score (which they did most of the time).
All in all, I don't think the French deserved the victory, they were on the day the weaker team but the got the oppotunites and took them. On the other hand England have managed to do the same in the past so I can't really complain.
Don't forget, this is still a team in its infancy give it another season and some experience under its belt and hopefully we'll start to see the old England back again.