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This. It's not really anybody's fault that England doesn't have a great team
Except the fact that a lot of premiership players are foreign. hmmm.... KICK OUT THE IMMIGRANTS!!!!
John Terry....
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This. It's not really anybody's fault that England doesn't have a great team
Except the fact that a lot of premiership players are foreign. hmmm.... KICK OUT THE IMMIGRANTS!!!!
Wait, what? Cole? Whichever one you're talking about, you're mad - I'll presume it's A. Cole, as the only one to actually have figured yet, and while I absolutely can't stand the guy, even I'll concede that he's pretty damn good.
If it's J. Cole, you're still mad, there's a reason people want him to play (other than the fact that he's not SWP).
Edit/ Also, I was very impressed with the Lampard press conference, and not in the slightest surprised that they chose to send out one of the players who's just a little bit brighter and able to think on his feet to field the questions today. I always let the Chelsea thing interfere with my opinion of him, but fair play to the guy, he's impressed me a few times now.
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Lampard was a safe bet to talk to the press today; he's the only player in the squad that can put a sentence together.
edit: and what you asked me in the other thread yesterday, regarding who selects the players for the press-conferences; I read that it was Baldini that chose Terry for yesterday's press-conference.
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He's getting the blame because if the players aren't good enough, Capello, and no one else, should be dropping them, he isn't therefore its his fault.
As for Terry, he sounded like a captain trying to help the team yesterday, Capello sounds like an idiot who has no idea who the players are, what their best positions are, or why he took half of them.
Maybe the team just could all do with venting and some being told why they aren't playing. I don't particularly like Terry, seems to be a chav from a criminal family whose a cheating twit(off the field) but, he's talking sense in regards to trying to get the team going.
I give him more credit than the other players who were talking and realised some things needed saying, and then ran away like scared children when the time actually came.
Terry stood up, said some things were bothering the team and tried to get it sorted, other players all saw their place being pulled and sponsorship deals going down and had their agents deny anything was going on. Capello ran for the hills and refused to let the players speak, Terry, spoke up, and I give him more credit for that than the other players and managers from hiding from the tough questions.
I've been constantly slated for asking questions about a performance, being dismal, if it gets a win. I've been saying all along this that and the other need fixing, but because we win everyone here, and in general in the UK says shutup, we won, we'll be able to win later aswell(as if by magic I assume).
Its too late, but the way to win cups is not blindly refusing to question awful performances purely because you scraped a win. You need to find faults in games you win, and FIX THEM before you play better teams that will exploit those weaknesses.
Out of the England camp, I've seen a single person stand up and say he wants to talk and try and fix things, why we'd get on that guys back I don't know.
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People want Joe Cole to play, because they can remember one or two games from years ago and are DESPARATE for the team to win. They are all ignoring the fact that, firstly, he's been awful this season, he's generally had no final ball for the vast majority of his what, last 7-8 years of football and won't magically make the team win.
However, he's easily better than Gerrard on the wing, and leagues ahead of SWP, but thats not saying much, one of those would have trouble getting into most youth teams if he weren't English/related to an ex footballer, and the other when he plays on the wing puts about 14 seconds a game actually on the wing.
Cole isn't great, he won't change anything, but he's still better than what we are playing there now, the real question has to be, why is our best left winger in the squad Joe Cole, and why isn't the best winger playing ahead of two god awful wingers?
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Ah John Terry. The player who gives hope to big lads who can't really play football.
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1. Because there are very few good English left wingers.
2. Because he wasn't playing regularly for Chelsea.
But, he IS the best they have. Milner comes close but in terms of creativity, Cole wins every time.
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Capello should ****ing drop the idiot
Not sure if anybody saw Capello's interview with ITV; he was far from happy with what Terry had to say. He was particularly unhappy with Terry's 'Cole for England' campaigning and as good as told Terry to shut up and do his talking on the pitch (something along the lines of 'big mistakes are followed by big performances').
I got the impression that had we had more than just Dawson available, he'd have dropped Terry.
I got the impression that had we had more than just Dawson available, he'd have dropped Terry.
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He seems to be relying on the fear of dropping out alone to inspire the team for Wednesday, which indicates he isn't planning many changes.
I was thinking the same thing but also that Capello may have considered sending JT home for his comments, but probably thought that the last thing the team needed was the inevitable press bombardment that would follow.
With regard to yesterday's JT interview, apart from the fact that most of it seems like him trying to stir things up, I was a little surprised to hear him say that sometimes boredom sets in. Well if it was me I'd have a few of the lads out playing a game of heads & vollies to try to improve their first touch.
Interesting.
I get the feeling Terry will be getting the owen treatment after the world cup. As long as capello stays John Terry is unlikely to feature, he will bring in a new CB to play alongside Rio. Jageilka please
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I don't care what JT says or who he shags, all I care about is what they do on the pitch. He's not paid well for his oratorical skills.
John Terry for me has always been ridiculously overrated. He, for me, is an average centre back who does a job - nothing more. Ricardo Carvalho has always criminally been overlooked as Chelsea's best defender.
That's on the pitch.
Off the pitch - the man is scum and I'd love to hear somebody try to suggest otherwise.
As for his comments, well he can talk all he wants. I'd put my money with Capello over John 'no brains' Terry everyday of the week.
This isn't Capello's problem, he can't play the matches for them!
That's on the pitch.
Off the pitch - the man is scum and I'd love to hear somebody try to suggest otherwise.
As for his comments, well he can talk all he wants. I'd put my money with Capello over John 'no brains' Terry everyday of the week.
This isn't Capello's problem, he can't play the matches for them!
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