*Official* English Football Season 2008-2009

[GIMH]

Ged Brannan...misses

 

[GIMH]

Whites go through on pens, haha awesome, can't believe we have our second choice keeper playing in this thing though!

 

[GIMH]

Can't see us getting past this citeh outfit. Another thing to stick to Smitteh this weekend if we do

 

[GIMH]

1-0! Kenny Irons I would stick you in our midfield even now

 

[GIMH]

Our boys in full voice again! You can tell that:

a - we never get to win anything good
b - we're a bunch of bloody pissheads

 

[GIMH]

Feels wrong that Eric Nixon isn't playing for us. Another one on one missed by Barlow!

 

[GIMH]

"Who needs Robinho, we've got Stuey Barlow"

 

[GIMH]

Citeh level with an absolute beauty!!

Anyone else watching this, btw? Never bothered with Masters before til we got invited this summer!!

 

[GIMH]

Eddie Bishop such a legend. Hard as ****. Gutted that I never saw him for the whites in the flesh.

 

[GIMH]

Citeh through 3-2, the best team lost tttt

 

[BoyBrumby]

Anyone else watching this, btw?

Naaah.

Occasionally indulge when I need a footy fix in the summer, but novelty of playing the "**** me, he's fat/bald/still got a great touch" game wears off pretty quickly.

 

[GIMH]

LOL, there are some fair bellies out there. Most of our side are late 30s-early 40s though, I think that's why they managed to get past a Liverpool team in the regional stages that clearly had players who were more talented in their day.

 

[aussie]

As I see it Englan's best XI is probably this:

James

Johnson Ferdinand Terry Cole

Hargreaves Carrick

Gerrard

Rooney Cole

Owen

With Gerrard, Cole and Rooney interchanging.

Word out the best side & i feel deep down Capello knows this the best side as well given he did play it vs France in the recent friendly when all where available & they looked very encouraging in the brief 45 minutes they played for. Although the RB role is still wide open with Johnson/Brown/Neville/Richards & Carrick/Barry, would probably start with Barry given he add a nice balance to the mid-field given he is a left-footer & slightly stronger defensively than Carrick ATM.

 

[GIMH]

There is no way both Hargreaves and Carrick should play. Then again, I don't think Carrick should play full-stop.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Then again, I don't think Carrick should play full-stop.

Wash your mouth out with soap.

FWIW I think Hargreaves is actually England's best option on the right, but of course he won't be played there, if at all.

 

[aussie]

England role frustrates Gerrard

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7602964.stm


You know what frustrates me? A mediocre technically **** player hyped up beyond belief showing England is a relatively minor thing to him and complaining about not getting his favourite position when he's been piss poor most of his England career.

Although he has gone missing most of the time, it is also a fact that given his versatility he has been sacrificed to accomodate other players which hasn't helped. The 5 times he claims he has played in an advanced attacking role be it competitive international of friendly from my memory:

- friendly vs France 08
- Euro qaulifier vs Andorra
- the 5-1 vs Germany
- vs Sweden second half WC 06

Well i only got 4, but he was very good in these games. Along with a few times in the less advanced centre-midfield role with the kind of partner he has suggested i.e with Barry in recent EURO 08 qualifiers.

 

[Scaly piscine]

So you could only find 4 games where he was any good then to fit in with Gerrard's excuses.

 

[aussie]

Wash your mouth out with soap.

FWIW I think Hargreaves is actually England's best option on the right, but of course he won't be played there, if at all.

Good point actually. But unlike United, with ENG who seem to never able take control of the mid-field still reliant of a Becks free-kick for 80% of our goals, he should always be in the centre of the park.

 

[aussie]

So you could only find 4 games where he was any good then to fit in with Gerrard's excuses.

No 4 games where he played in the role he has been playing for Liverpool recently & pretty much all his career plus a few other times as well. I am not denying Gerrard has been awful for most of his career, but i definately acknowledge his complaint.

 

[Matteh]

Word out the best side

Well it's clearly not, Rooney's in it.