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Post by Jon Broxton on Sept 9, 2009 13:09:16 GMT -8
England 5 Croatia 1 That is all
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Post by Southall on Sept 9, 2009 13:43:31 GMT -8
Superb. I've got a good feeling about this!
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Post by Jon Broxton on Sept 9, 2009 14:10:43 GMT -8
Me too. Aaron Lennon was so good down the wing tonight. Rooney looked sharp, Lampard and Gerrard had their scoring boots on... could this be our turn? Finally??
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Post by Armin on Sept 10, 2009 0:01:36 GMT -8
Quarter-finals. As usual. With good company of the Dutch.
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Post by Jon Broxton on Sept 10, 2009 8:48:17 GMT -8
Well, Argentina and France are both in genuine danger of not even qualifying... Germany could slip up in the Euro qualification playoffs. We could have a better chance this year than in previous years simply as a result of numbers. If none of those teams go, England would be the #6 seed behind Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Italy and Russia.
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Post by cheno on Sept 10, 2009 10:47:10 GMT -8
Would be a shame if Argentina doesn't make it.
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Post by Southall on Sept 10, 2009 12:57:44 GMT -8
Only Spain and maybe Brazil stand out to me as being much better than England. But we have probably the best football manager in the world, which makes a difference. Holland are very good too (but with flaws, a bit like England perhaps), but Italy aren't what they were last time.
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Post by Jon Broxton on Sept 10, 2009 14:02:04 GMT -8
I'd agree with that assessment. Holland have a huge amount of firepower, but look lax at the back, which is how Scotland (with more luck) could have taken them down the other night.
Argentina is the team that's baffling me now. Tevez, Messi, Mascherano, all these world class players, and they're getting hammered by teams like Paraguay and Bolivia. Very odd.
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Post by Southall on Sept 10, 2009 15:57:17 GMT -8
Argentina is the team that's baffling me now. Tevez, Messi, Mascherano, all these world class players, and they're getting hammered by teams like Paraguay and Bolivia. Very odd. It's scarcely believable, but for the first time I am able to use my experience as a Walsall supporter to help me form a view about the Argentinian national team, by saying that appointing a manager with psychological problems and a past drug addiction (in Walsall's case, as it turned out, a current one too) is probably not the best idea.
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Post by Jon Broxton on Sept 10, 2009 23:00:11 GMT -8
Well, true, but with all the will in the world, Paul Merson is no Diego Maradona. I can't believe that no-one is at least *advising* Maradona on team selection, tactics, formation, and so on. Lionel Messi doesn't stop being one of the best strikers in the world because his coach is bad.
The probem, of course, is that Maradona has such an enormous ego that he won't back down until he's either proved his critics wrong, or they've flamed out and Venezuela go to the World Cup instead, and then he has to quit to save face.
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Post by Jens Dietrich on Sept 11, 2009 7:06:12 GMT -8
The way the name of this thread is abbreviated on the main page, I keep misreading it as "We're going to War"
- which is why I keep clicking on it accidentially.
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Post by cheno on Sept 11, 2009 8:28:20 GMT -8
I feel that we're long overdue for a third U.S.-British war. It's been foreverrrrrrrrrrr.
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Post by pmrsim on Sept 14, 2009 10:32:04 GMT -8
We're already in one. And it will go one foreverrrrr. And it's not funny, coz it's the most pointless loss of lives since.... well, since at least two reviewers died listening to Gamer.
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