AmexRuislip
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[Football] England v Greece match thread
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A mex eyecan
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- Nov 3, 2011
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Weststander
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Carsley got that all wrong and did nothing to change it. From the word go Greece tore England apart all over the pitch. Coaches can and do stem the tide, RDZ and Hurzeler have shown us that mid games, without the embarrassment of riches Carsley had.
Nations League … yes it does matter, Wembley games are prized and not to be gifted away. Stones said he was gutted. No nonchalance that just the Nations League.
Carsley …. that was a 0/10. Should’ve made an early sub or two and changed the set up.
Durlston
"You plonker, Rodney!"
Please, God. I'll say a prayer.
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Very poor tonight from players and coach. Greece played well though and were galvanised by honouring George Baldock.f*** me, it's going to be Potter isn't it?
GP's lack of accepting a club job is all falling into place now and making sense.
In fairness, it couldn't be any worse than what Carsley's just dished up.
The false 9 isn’t going to work. The elephant in that room is that playing Kane deep was even worse.
Foden and Gordon are going to have to sit down. Our front 4 needs to be Saka, Bellingham, Kane / Watkins, Palmer. Two strong holding mids. And I’m fine with Lewis at LB.
JamesAndTheGiantHead
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Potter *dry heaves* in.
Durlston
"You plonker, Rodney!"
Too similar to Southgate - he keeps winning games even if we play crap and smiles too much.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Foden and Gordon would be good options off the bench, it was plain stupid playing all of them at the same time, can’t really understand what Carsley was thinking with tonight’s selection
edit: he played that system for 20 minutes on Wednesday then picked the team on the strength of that! Wow
Seagull58
In the Algarve
They've NEVER beaten England before tonight. What is your definition of "bogey side"?
Insel affe
HellBilly
Didn’t bother watching all so predictable, I’ve been let down by England since I first started following them seriously in 82.
im done with them.
im done with them.
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Agree with some of that, disagree with other bits.
Tonight was a shitshow. I’d rather have it in a fairly meaningless Nations League game that we can learn from than, say, needing a Hail Mary to beat Slovakia in a major tournament.
Another England manager fails spectacularly
Milano
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I was hoping that whoever the New England manager was they’d have the bollocks to replace Pickford.
Colwill was hopeless tonight.
Colwill was hopeless tonight.
Durlston
"You plonker, Rodney!"
F**k me, Carsley has got a future to replace two-tier Sir Keir Starmer.
The interview was almost as embarrassing as the match.
The interview was almost as embarrassing as the match.
AmexRuislip
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Yeh agree, we need another Terry Venables type coach IMO, not that there's anything like that out there.
Milano
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OMG he’s just talked himself out of this job. “We tried it in training for 20 minutes yesterday” has he honestly just said that?
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Staggering wasn’t it….stop talking Carsley
- Nov 11, 2009
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agree...... and tbh, whilst I of course want England to win, we were so bad, and he did nothing to address it...... that when we equalised I thought 'he's going to get away with this shambles' as we've now equalised...... so the upside of Greece getting a richly deserved second goal is our performance got what it deserved.... Nothing......... and there can now be no papering over the cracks of Carsley getting it all wrong tonight.
Weststander
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The ultimate insult is …. Guehi is better.
Stones and Rice the only top class defensively minded players out there. Surrounded by chaos.