England held to disappointing draw
Saturday 19th June 2010, 8:38AM BST.
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England’s World Cup hopes hang in the balance after being held to a goalless draw by Algeria.
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Mighty Algeria Humble Little England. Well, they controlled the ball better, passed better, moved better and for the first ten minutes at least our defence was like an Autumn leaf in a stiff breeze. Why oh why so many back passes, some of them downright irresponsible? Rooney was awful, Gerrard a pussycat, Lampard AWOL, oh, add your own. There is something we cannot see or know about that is seriously wrong here.
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ENGLAND But when are you gonna learn?
Its useless having Capellos and Ericssons Not even a Mourinho would solve your problems. And until you learn and go back to basics you will never win a major trophy.
To me it is obvious that the massive influx of foreign players to the premiership is the main reason. You dont have decent goalkeepers, and if you have you wouldn’t play them cos you prefer the van der sars or almunias and reinas. You have only one decent striker in Wayne Rooney the rest are useless, at least you have a good back four and midfield but they too are not giving their best.
High salaries is destroying the game fast. To me a salary of 120,000 a week is astronomical, get back to basics pay them 2,500 to 5, 000 a week maximum and you’ll be on the right track again. They are too young to millionaires. They should be honored to play for their country.
But the priority is to win the champions league for english clubs, money comes first
How about the under 17 Birmingham goalkeeper? take good care of him, he s so good!
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The thing that gets on my wick are these
England fans who boo our own players during
and after games,I wouldnt mind but half the
idiots dont understand football
and they think its just the in thing to do
by watching the National football team.
There`s one thing I dont understand about
Fabio Capello and thats his insistance on
keeping the two best players ie.JOE COLE and
JAMES MILNER sat on the bench,these players
should replace the hopeless LAMPARD and LENNON
with EMILE HESKY been sent home to audition
for “IAM ALWAYS ON MY BACKSIDE”.
ENGLAND TEAM SHOULD BE:
James.
G.Johnson. Terry. Upson. A.Cole.
Wright-Phillips. Milner. Barry. J.Cole.
Gerrard.
Rooney.
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DLB, I don’t think they were booed DURING the match. We kept on expecting them to suddenly wake up and do something. But at the end, that’s different for those who’ve spent thousands of pounds getting to RSA, earn less than one-hundredth of our prima-donnas’ salaries per week even if they have a very good job. I don’t boo, I swear to myself. Badly! Be honest, we were outclassed.
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