Fabio Capello wanted to pick Derrick Bird for the Slovenia match as he's not frightened of shooting from distance.
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She was asking that of every person she interviewed, it was blooming annoying, not so much the "racist undertones" but just the inability to keep the interviews interesting, she could ask the same question just in a different way. I mean she had to re-word it for Fabio, that was the only time she varied it. It got very boring, very quickly, and came across as if she had some nefarious plan for a video package that required an england player to say "the shackles are off".
Crikey, someone needs a sense of humour. It's a game of football, not life or death, would you rather people started thread after thread moaning to express their disappointment, or tell jokes to have a bit of a gigle and not take things so seriously, lighten the mood for people who have lost perspective?
He's right though. A lot of the jokes don't really work, cos we aren't actually shit, are we?
Sheebo
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No I don't think you should make any jokes on your own. As for thread after thread moaning - did you read NSC after Algeria / the week before that / before the tourno started etc etc...?
Sheebo
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Ah right - scanned through the thread and see why you reacted - cos the one you posted has 100% not happened... Don't worry - i'd be embarrassed too - it's ok...
Cecil
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Ah right - scanned through the thread and see why you reacted - cos the one you posted has 100% not happened... Don't worry - i'd be embarrassed too - it's ok...
Whom are the England team going to meet after the Second round of the World Cup?
Angry fans at the airport.
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Cecil
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But when deconstructed, most jokes don't work, but it doesn't stop them being made or laughed at.
When people are depressed after a loss, logic is put aside and many of the jokes about England being shit/an embarrassment tickle the funny bone for some people.
Getting pissy because people made the jokes in the first place is bad enough, but to gloat that they no longer work (when they never did anyway) instead of simply enjoying success and progression to the next round, is just being a miserable git, and personally I find the "don't dare have fun while things aren't going as smoothly as anticipated" far more depressing and annoying then any number of miserable "we're shit, why are we playing heskey, let's put rooney up front on his own, gerrard just behind him, bring on joe cole, drop lampard, why isn't walcott there, we should have an english manager, this is all because the premiership doesn't use english players enough, the press are manipulating you into hating capello/terry" doom mongering posts.
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By what perspective? The level of negativity in this country is embarrassingly ridiculous. We've made the quarters of the last few tournaments, that puts us in the Top 8 countries in the world consistently. There are a couple of hundred countries in the world. We are GOOD.
We've lost ONE competitive game under Capello, and embarrassed Croatia (two places below us) twice. We've beaten Germany in the last couple of years with our reserve team, and outplayed Holland.
Get some f***ing perspective people. We ARE a good team. I know as the English we're not allowed to be positive, but f*** it, I'm fed up of how cynical we are.
The Germans don't often have ultra-skilled players, I'd say they often have squads about the standard of ours, but their positive mentality is for me the main reason they consistently get further than us.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
pasty
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Fucks sake. I really can't believe some people are getting all precious about a few harmless jokes about an underachieving (as they were when the jokes were posted) football team.
It's called gallows humour. It's an English trait to be able to laugh at oneself, a trait we should be proud of IMHO. f*** me, if I couldn't laugh about The Albion at times, I'd be suicidal by now.
It's called gallows humour. It's an English trait to be able to laugh at oneself, a trait we should be proud of IMHO. f*** me, if I couldn't laugh about The Albion at times, I'd be suicidal by now.