*** Engerland v Switzerland *** 2012 euro qualifier 04-06-11 itv 16.45

[Beach Hut]

We have no person UK born even competent enough to manage the national team as the FA have for years clung onto the belief that inventing football and winning one World Cup in '66 is enough to be getting on with, we are light years behind many of our European colleagues in terms of understanding fitness levels, diet and passing football.

Interestingly in all the Blatter bashing FIFA considers the English FA arrogant and to be fair it is a very true statement.

I should not moan I was 3 when we won the world cup (not that I ever knew) however a generation of fans will never see us ever win a World Cup, the best recent manager we ever had was Bobby Robson.

 

[Jam The Man]

The failure seems very obvious to me.. we were at HOME, and played with ONE striker... we were more scared of the Swiss than they were of us.. it's just not on.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

As I said it was s..t or bust we were not going to score by conventional means and playing football notice I ommitted to say good football. Bent wasnt working and he wasnt knocking balls down for Young and other players coming through.

I prefer the other method England adopt when plan A working ie "put them under pressure" which means doing exactly the same as before....just faster and slightly more chaotic.

 

[peterward]

Craig Davies eat your heart out...... Darren Bent is the New Barndoor

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

A typical England June performance.

 

[HoveHorace]

Don't have the players / manager / intelligence to do anything - bring back 1966 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Screaming J]

I'd completely forgotten we were playing........did we lose

 

[Marshy]

Get rid

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Get rid

I agree. They are talentless fools. But who would replace them? Can you name 11 other Englishmen let alone a squad?

 

[El Presidente]

England under Capello have lost two competitive matches in three and a half years.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

A typical England June performance.

The "June" is superfluous.

 

[gjh1971]

England under Capello have lost two competitive matches in three and a half years.

They have only played one team above them in the rankings, Germany, which was a stuffing. They havent exactly played quality opposition

 

[Billy Mays]

Got out of jail though with Montenegro drawing with Bulgaria. Still on course for the finals where of course we will get found out and fail to get out of the group.

 

[Bean]

It's got to the point where I WANTED Switzerland to score a winner at the end, just to have a good wry laugh

 

[Deleted member 18477]

not gunna lie a team of... robinson, richards, shawcross, ferdinand, cole, delap, parker, wilshere, etherington, davies, carroll (subs: pennant, barton + whoever) has more chance of winning than the shower of shit capello played today. if were going to play shit football we might as well do it the Stoke way and try and win at least!

milner? terry? lampard? walcott? REALLY? milner cant get in his club team, terry and lampard are awful, walcott cant deliver an end product EVER! what on earth does he see in them that i cant? and as for gareth barry who he usually picks... give me strength!

 

[8ace]

Genius. The world has moved on my friend.

I can't wait for the Festival of Britain!

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

As of 18 May England were 6th in the FIFA rankings and when we inevitably get knocked out in the Finals no doubt our FIFA ranking will improve! Tells you all you really need to know about FIFA. What a load of bollocks.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I can't wait for the Festival of Britain!

This, made me laugh.

 

[Pavilionaire]

On the plus side it looks as though Ashley Young and Wilshere are now locked in starters, while Bent has been found out without the failure being terminal for England. Personally, I liked Baines' contribution and if we had centre backs with more pace I'd drop Cashley.

In terms of 4-5-1, negative on the face of it but there's a distinct lack of strikers. Where the f*** was Lampard in the first half? All this talk of him and Gerrard can't play together, yet when Gerrard's not in the team Lampard's never in the danger areas.

I thought Scott Parker was disappointing but will cut him slack because he carried West Ham this season and if anyone's entitled to be knackered it's him.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

On the plus side it looks as though Ashley Young and Wilshere are now locked in starters, while Bent has been found out without the failure being terminal for England. Personally, I liked Baines' contribution and if we had centre backs with more pace I'd drop Cashley.

In terms of 4-5-1, negative on the face of it but there's a distinct lack of strikers. Where the f*** was Lampard in the first half? All this talk of him and Gerrard can't play together, yet when Gerrard's not in the team Lampard's never in the danger areas.

I thought Scott Parker was disappointing but will cut him slack because he carried West Ham this season and if anyone's entitled to be knackered it's him.

But Wilshire was poor, He should have gone with the Under 21, if only to get tournement experience, you dont see the Germans pull out because they are tired, Ozil played a whole season went to the u21's played another season and was one of the stars at the world cup.