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Yeah, that's true. But it was pretty hard to do any worse. The question is, have England really progressed from the Sven days? The last time I remember England looking truly world-class in every sense was Euro '96.
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English national football, where do we go from here?
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
Wrong, it got reported. That's what brought it to my attention.I've just reduced my post count to 136.
Of course in this case it was a complete nothing that most people wouldn't even have noticed, never mind care about if the self important style moderating hadn't brought attention to it.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
That's fairly revisionist anyway. I love that tournament, but we weren't world-class aside from trouncing the Dutch. We were good second half against Scotland, played well against Germany but the only time we looked like world-beaters was the Holland game. The only other England game I've ever watched from my lifetime that was as good was the 5-1 in Munich.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Imagine if he'd called someone a sack of ****.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Just because something's reported it doesn't automatically require intervention, especially when the two concerned had not continued it and it had happened a while ago. That is unless Uppercut reported it himself which doesn't seem likely considering that he made the first insult.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Like I said already. It was two posts that would soon have been forgotten but for unnecessary attention being drawn to them.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Not sure about that. Half the German team aren't German.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
1 player in a squad of 23 isn't "half the team", check your maths.Not sure about that. Half the German team aren't German.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Apart from Ozil's Turkishness, there's some Polish blood in there somewhere isn't there?
Quaggas
State Captain
Yeah, Podolski and Klose born in Silesia. Cacau in Brazil, but Ozil in Gelsenkirchen.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
My mate Wishy (Wiesniewdzke) assured me there were three "pure" Poles in the German squad - he was a tad excited at the time so I didn't ask what "pure" meant but assume he meant there were others with Polish ancestry
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
It was a joke. Look that word up in the dictionary if you want.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Football isn't a laughing matter in Scotland
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
It is if you walk through the fields of Aberdeen wearing a kilt and the thistle is three feet high.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
11/23 could've played for someone else:
Aogo (Nigerian father)
Tasci (Turkish parents)
Khedira (Tunisian father)
Ozil (Turkish parents)
Podolski (Polish birth/parents)
Klose (Polish birth/mother)
Trochowski (Polish birth)
Cacau (Naturalised Brazilian)
Boateng (Ghanian father)
Marin (Bosnian birth/parents)
Gomez (Spanish father)
But, tbf, only really Cacau isn't a proper German. All the other were either born in or moved to the Fatherland at a very early age.