Are you ready for the England evolution??q

[Brovion]

Glad That Someone Finally Gives McLaren Some Credit. He Made Some Tough Decisions That Others Would Never Do. He Quite Rightly Dropped Beckham And Robinson. He Stuck With Class Players Like Lampard, And Finally Gave Barry His Chance. Croatia And Russia Were Very Lucky. I Personally Think The FA Should Have Stuck With Him, But Maybe Removed His Umbrella

I AGREE. THE ONLY REASON WE DIDN'T QUALIFY WAS BECAUSE THE REFEREES WERE ALL BIASED AGAINST US LIKE THE VOTERS IN THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST. PLUS CROATIA AND RUSSIA CHEATED BY PRACTISING AND EVOLVING MODERN TACTICS AS OPPOSED TO JUST PLAYING GOOD OLD 4-4-2. WE SHOULD ALWAYS WIN BECAUSE WE ARE ENGLAND - WE INVENTED THE GAME AND WE WON THE WAR.


Edit: Bugger - why didn't that come out as capitalised as opposed to all caps?

 

[Bars Mar]

I AGREE. THE ONLY REASON WE DIDN'T QUALIFY WAS BECAUSE THE REFEREES WERE ALL BIASED AGAINST US LIKE THE VOTERS IN THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST. PLUS CROATIA AND RUSSIA CHEATED BY PRACTISING AND EVOLVING MODERN TACTICS AS OPPOSED TO JUST PLAYING GOOD OLD 4-4-2. WE SHOULD ALWAYS WIN BECAUSE WE ARE ENGLAND - WE INVENTED THE GAME AND WE WON THE WAR.

I Think You're Taking The Piss Out Of Me. Yet Another Bully.

And There's No Need To Shout.

 

[Brovion]

I Think You're Taking The Piss Out Of Me. Yet Another Bully.

And There's No Need To Shout.

I wasn't taking the piss - I was trying to type in your style. Imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery you know. I think you're a breath of fresh air on NSC.


Anyway, hand over your dinner money or I'll do ya!

 

[Man of Harveys]

Is Jimmy Bullard English?

That's the sort of player England need

Isn't he - like the very best people - half-German?

 

[keaton]

Isn't he - like the very best people - half-German?

Our only other decent central midfielder's half-German get him in the team.
In all seriousness i'd rather have Bullard than Jenas or Carrick

 

[NMH]

I Think You're Taking The Piss Out Of Me. Yet Another Bully.

And There's No Need To Shout.

Well said boz.... BARS! There's been TOO MUCH of that sort of thing, and Brovian is carrying on this tradition.

Funny mention of the umbrella too, great stuff.

Keep it up Bars, you speak your mind without fear of nasty cyber-bullies like Brovian.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Jimmy Bullard is too ugly to play for England.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Oi, stop nicking OUR midfielders - the English ones are ok, they just need a kick up their fat lazy arses. What you lot need is a proper MAD German goalkeeper

or David James - I think he's excellent, I'd pick him

 

[drew]

Anyone who thinks Mclaren deserves credit need to have the piss taken out of them. His biggest mistake was dropping Beckham which he only did to stamp his mark on the team at the outset of his short tenure. I suspect that had Beckham been playing along he would not have signed up for the mickey mouse league. However, dropped by his country I can't blame him for grabbing the dollars. He proved his worth when he returned and, along with Heskey, revitalised our campaign. He turned the game against Croatia and if it hadn't been for Carson's mistake, we may well have sneaked in the back door to the championships. Unfortunatley, that would have meant McLaren staying in post. Whilst I hate to see England not qualify, as in 1994, every cloud has a silver lining.

 

[TSB]

I have to say i am slightly concerned at reports of Wes Brown and Upson starting though

I don't know about that.
Imagine that you've never seen Wes Brown before. Then imagine how hard it'd be to keep a straight face, let alone shoot on target if he was facing you.
I think it might work in our favour.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Rooney on his own up front DOES. NOT. WORK!!!!!

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

I don't know about that.
Imagine that you've never seen Wes Brown before. Then imagine how hard it'd be to keep a straight face, let alone shoot on target if he was facing you.
I think it might work in our favour.

He does look like a baked bean

 

[Storer68]

Capello will fail and be hounded out by the media.........

as every england manager has been before him.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Rooney on his own up front DOES. NOT. WORK!!!!!

Joe Cole will play up with him, kinda like Tevez does at United, I would imagine.

 

[Easy 10]

My left eyebrow climbed a bit when I saw Wes Orange at RB, as Richards has looked very dynamic for England down that side in previous games. Perhaps Capello feels he is a little too "buccaneering" for his style at the moment, and by all accounts I've read recently, Orange has been deputising well for Neville lately. So again, Capello picks on form, not just what went before. Excellent.

I'm actually quite excited about tonight game, especially at seeing a COMPLETELY different England team (and different through selection, not the usual 'late withdrawls'). With McLaren it was always going to be more of the same. But everything Capello has said and done so far I think has been hugely encouraging.

We desperately needed a broom to sweep away the stale old cobwebs of assumption and apathy in the England squad. Capello has arrived with a Dyson.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Joe Cole will play up with him, kinda like Tevez does at United, I would imagine.

Is it not Rooney behind Tevez at ManUre though?

Everytime I've seen Roon play on his own up front for England he just comes deep all the time to collect the ball and there's no one to play off him.

 

[Marshy]

Surely would have been better with Rooney of Owen......more of the same i know, but this is in my opinion our best pairing.

Is it me but all of a sudden that side looks like lacking goals.
And also we look a very small side ?, we look frail to set peices i think.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Is it not Rooney behind Tevez at ManUre though?

Everytime I've seen Roon play on his own up front for England he just comes deep all the time to collect the ball and there's no one to play off him.

Don't know.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Is it not Rooney behind Tevez at ManUre though?

Everytime I've seen Roon play on his own up front for England he just comes deep all the time to collect the ball and there's no one to play off him.

Most times Ive seen Rooney play for England in past few years he has been very average.

Cappello will be hounded out, because we dont like the just win men mentality that he will bring to the team, the papers will be crying for more attractive football to be played.
For a country that has not close to winning anything for years this is a bit odd.

 

[crodonilson]

Most times Ive seen Rooney play for England in past few years he has been very average.

Cappello will be hounded out, because we dont like the just win men mentality that he will bring to the team, the papers will be crying for more attractive football to be played.
For a country that has not close to winning anything for years this is a bit odd.

People wanted a winner, that's what Barwick got us with a capital W. I am sure if results are positive then people will stick behind him, it's obvious that if we play poorly and don't win then the press will hound him out.