Vegas Seagull
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Wonderful strikes by JW, best run for 19 years. Need JT back, Cahill lost with him. RH realises we are gonna concede do may as well play 5 up from & outscore
The Official England are actually playing a qualifying game live on TV thread.
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atfc village
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France here we come.
SIMMO SAYS
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British Bulldog
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Good win that.
brightn'ove
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That 2nd goal was one of the best England goals I've seen in my lifetime, beautiful football.
Sheebo
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Even at half time it was clear we were dominating the game but I'm sure many on here were reveling in it. Defensively we are poor - a shambles at times and we really don't have the personnel anywhere in the back 4 with the exception of Cahill. Attackingly we are looking great. Pace and a care free approach have meant we're scoring a lot more than we were. But we deserve a lot more credit than people are giving us for yet another faultless qualifying campaign. We are amongst the best in Europe for qualifying - we just rarely take that form into major tournos - maybe it's the intense pressure I don't know... Either way that's a cracking turn around in a tough tie away in Slovenia. There will always be knockers but we do compete well in international football and always have. Only one team can win the World Cup or Euros after all....
BensGrandad
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Of todays starting back four I would only expect 1 to be playing in the Euro finals as first choice Gary Cahill . I hope that we shall unearth better players for the other 3 places.
Macca the attacker
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Rooney is class. 48 goals and still years left to set a record nobody will get close too. Don't see why he gets so much stick??
More goals in qualifying matches than anyone else too. I may not like him as much as the Charltons and Linekers of this world but he has produced the goods.
Postman Pat
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Considering what some of the other big nations are doing in qualification, I am very happy to be sitting top of the group with max points.
pasty
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Discussing same in pub. Certainly the best since Shearer scored England's 3rd in the 4-1 drubbing of the Netherlands in Euro '96
Maximum points in qualifying
Unbeaten since the World Cup
After years of moans about playing the same old players playing, lots of youngsters coming through
You can't force people to like watching England, each to their own I guess, but I don't quite get why people seem to like wearing their disdain of England like a badge of honour, like they're proud of not giving a shit. Oh well.
Unbeaten since the World Cup
After years of moans about playing the same old players playing, lots of youngsters coming through
You can't force people to like watching England, each to their own I guess, but I don't quite get why people seem to like wearing their disdain of England like a badge of honour, like they're proud of not giving a shit. Oh well.
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I guess so many times, when it's mattered, that's exactly the impression the players have given.
BensGrandad
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Are we talking of first team or their respective C teams
The Spanish
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So would I be if I hadn't seen this loads of times before and how it ends up at the finals.
Hodgson is a very good technical coach, he plays the youngsters and he's not afraid to take risks (Henderson at right back today for a while). I'm not expecting anything from the finals next year, nor from the rip off, family friendly kickabouts we play to keep the UEFA calendar happy, but we could not do any better for a manager and our away fans are still brilliantly loud and old skool (band excepted).
I really enjoyed that goal, and it was from a good break, but chirst it wasn't Owen's against Argentina in 98.
Hodgson's stint at Liverpool was not a success. The general consensus is that he's a good defensive manager, but at big clubs or international level, he will come up short.
yxee
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It's balancing out the overratedness. Today he missed some absolute sitters, another player scored two amazing goals, yet he is the one on the headlines. He is NOT world class, he just scores quite a lot of goals. And a lot of those 48 goals are meaningless. How many scored in an international tournament? How many meaningful ones?