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India vs Pakistan earlier certainly werent.Neil Pickup said:They're all irrelevant!
India vs Pakistan earlier certainly werent.Neil Pickup said:They're all irrelevant!
Is that an England football game?Pratyush said:India vs Pakistan earlier certainly werent.
No but the mentioned games certainly were friendlies counterign your claim all friendlies are irrelevent.Neil Pickup said:Is that an England football game?
Except it was called irrelevant before the game.Pratyush said:What a surprise. England lose a match and it is discounted as irrelevent by Ericsson.
No, it does nothing of the sort.Pratyush said:No but the mentioned games certainly were friendlies counterign your claim all friendlies are irrelevent.
Okay let me spell it out for you:marc71178 said:No, it does nothing of the sort.
Show me.marc71178 said:Except it was called irrelevant before the game.
Yeah Steds, friendlies do not have much at stake as far as trophies are concerned but they are not ALWAYS irrelevent due to many other reasons like one upmanship, rivalries etc.steds said:And Pratyush, the India-Pakistan games were irrelevent as games. The things which made them relevant are the rivalry, politics behind the countries and what it does for the relations between them
That was a world cup match, friendlies are one offs where the winners gain nothing and nothing happens to the losers and most players would prefer to miss.Pratyush said:And did Pakistan also not say before the 1999 india-pakistan world cup match that the it was irrelevent! did not make it irrelevent by any count.
Yeah but the point was a statement by some one before a match that it is irrelevent does not automatically deem it so.steds said:That was a world cup match, friendlies are one offs where the winners gain nothing and nothing happens to the losers and most players would prefer to miss.
As with any friendly played by England, we called it irrelevant long before the game.Pratyush said:Show me.
Yes, but the whole fact that you've said it's a WORLD CUP match, means it's not a friendly!Pratyush said:And did Pakistan also not say before the 1999 india-pakistan world cup match that the it was irrelevent! did not make it irrelevent by any count.
So if England play it is irrelevant and for anybody else it isn't?Neil Pickup said:Is that an England football game?
Well that depends on the supporters/players for any other respective nation. In England such is the way with Eriksson and the players, friendlies end up being trivial and pointless.Craig said:So if England play it is irrelevant and for anybody else it isn't?
Rio yes, but Gary Neville no. He is one of the most competitive players around and plays 100% every time, unlike many England players.sledger said:this is esspecially the case for england imo, with ferdinand and gary neville esspecially, sad state of affairs imo.
Righhhht. And here was me thinking you actually had some footballing knowledge. Explain to me how Neville is overrated when the majority who don't play/know anything about football think he is a donkey anyway??? But i suppose you know better than every football manager in the land, and most players for that matter.sledger said:he was the one that tried to lead a strike when ferdinand was banned for a year, the little ***** should have been thrown out of the squad, and trying hard is all well and good, but when your talent is equal to that of a donkey it makes no difference, hes one of the most overated players in englands histroy, what really aggrieves me is that jamie carragher who has turned into a very decent player doesnt get a look in, esspecially when both first choice centre backs are fit.