Being a Leeds fan and watching League 1 sides outbattle us on a few occasions I can equate it to the England set-up. The Algerians aren't there expecting to win anything, but will have celebrated drawing with THE FAMOUS THREE LIONS OF ENGLAND! like it was a victory. Teams like that view every game as their cup final, and they fight their way through them, you have to earn the right to play football before you can start a quick passing game like England want to. They have to battle and work hard as well as trying the pretty bits. Lennon's rubbish attempts at inside flicks, for example. You're there to run at defenders Aaron, that's what got you your place in the squad. Why are you now scared of it?
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thats excuse making
we do this every tournament
blame the manager, get a new one in, and then they go and play terrible again. We've had a team "full of talented players" that "underperfoms" for 20 years or so now.
30 years of hurt has now become 44 years of hurt.
How much longer must we go on blaming the manager ?
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Until they stop making the same moronic mistakes?
Even my mum knows Heskey is **** and you don't stick a right winger on left wing.
It wasn't until he realised it was the real world that he couldn't click 'Inside Forward'
like gilly says the players look scared to try something.
its not just rooney, there were shocking performances all over that team last night. We couldnt even pass the ball around properly and thats just basic stuff.
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I've just watched the England rugby union team beat Australia 21-20.
What a pleasure to watch an England team that plays together with pride and commitment, unlike our underachieving football primadonnas.
What a pleasure to watch an England team that plays together with pride and commitment, unlike our underachieving football primadonnas.
Because they are coached not to? Think about Italian football, it is very slow regimented it is almost like football by numbers.
Look at Maradona and Argentina, he is a poor coach but the players want to play for him, he invokes passion, Brazil they play with a freedom that other teams don't.
Cappello has his way of doing things, unfortunately it appears that it is not an adaptable method.
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Because they will become hate figures for the country if they make a mistake?
Well done to England...good result for them..about time one english team won
You forgot about the cricket already then ?
I totally agree with this. Rooney is nothing without world class foriegn players around him.
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Quite a poor performance but this whole reaction sticking the knife in afterwards is hardly going to help. I don't see the point in booing the players as its not going to inspire them to play better, its just going to compound their misery and make it harder to turn things around.
All this abuse for Rooney now is quite pathetic. If I was him I'd just say "you know what, **** you then." Announce my retirement from the international game and lap it up when all the morons declaring how crap he is now after a couple of bad games suddenly realise just what an important player he is.
All this abuse for Rooney now is quite pathetic. If I was him I'd just say "you know what, **** you then." Announce my retirement from the international game and lap it up when all the morons declaring how crap he is now after a couple of bad games suddenly realise just what an important player he is.
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