I'm behind Zlatan coming with if he agrees to start every game on the bench and be our supersub in minute 65-70. That's the only way his presence would be a positive.
I'm behind Zlatan coming with if he agrees to start every game on the bench and be our supersub in minute 65-70. That's the only way his presence would be a positive.
Does anyone know in which order the pots are drawn? 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 or 1 -> 4 -> 3 -> 2?
Like everyone else, we all like zlatan. But he needs to sit down. I dont agree with him coming back to sweden, even if he is on the bench. He played zero part in qualifying.Originally Posted by Bernanke
We brought Henrik Larsson twice after he didn't take part in qualifying, and nobody seemed to mind then.
The US Ryder Cup performance with and without Tigger is a great one. He missed 2008 and that was their only win for eight years either side.Ewing Theory
Is there a particular reason everyone loves Buffon so much? You always find that with Italian players where people fawn over them (Pirlo, Totti, Buffon, etc) but hate the Italian team as a collective.
I think it's because he's been around for so long and so good for so long. There's a nostalgia value with him, I guess. He's probably one of the last greats still around from the era of when someone who's now in their late 20s was in their early teens and proper mad about football.
It's an interesting observation re the longevity Italians, you've got Maldini in there as well.
Buffon also came through on an early champ manager didn't he (in that epic Parma team)? Got to be some residual love from those times in 'the community'.
No chance we're qualifying tonight but this bit of the anticipation is: drool:
Everywhere is buzzing.
I think it's general nostalgia for the 90s when Serie A was good and exotic and we were kids (or most of us were). Not sure we'll be fawning over Antonio Candreva in 10 years' time.
Such bullshit, but still.
Giggles gives up his melodramatic persona only when it's somehow about Ireland. Tribalism
It's class though. It's all anyone has talked about all day, it's all over every tv and radio show, you'd swear it was a world cup final or something. There's a lot to be said for being shít really.Giggles gives up his melodramatic persona only when it's somehow about Ireland. Tribalism
And fuck it, if we lose we're all in it together anyway and we'll go again next time.
He probably gets a bit of credit for not poncing off to Milan when Juventus got relegated as well.
Not sure why he is reading out a quintessentially Welsh poem.
True actually, I'd forgot that bit.
It might as well be Yugoslavian for all I know.
They use a song by a Scottish band on some of their GAA previews but I haven't stormed the buildings yet as it works.
Ireland is probably the leading poetry nation of all time, so there's no excuse.
Maybe they're all shit. Quality over quantity thing.
Meyler for O'Dowda, Hendrick out to the right. Should have been further right and onto the bench, he's been so bad since Euro 2016.
Has Shane Long shagged Martin O’Neill’s wife or something?
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Yeah but it was a weird one, cos he seemed to vary in age from game to game. Sometimes he’d be 10 years older. I still don’t understand what used to happen.
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He wouldn't score in a barrel of fannys, but yeah he should really be starting to at least stretch them a bit.
Who's Gomez?
lol is Joe Hart still our number one?
Have to be Pickford now wouldn't it?
Butland's injured and Pickford rested by the sounds of it. Southgate's keeping it open as to who's number one.
I know it's an early lead, but going ahead early brings out the worst in this lot. They'll sit deep as fuck til the equaliser.
Which means Hart will be starting in the World Cup.
Southgate's already dropped players, I think whoever starts will do so on merit.
*Cue Rooney being recalled.*
It must be wonderful being so naive, Reg.
This is diabolical. You can't invite any team onto you for 75 minutes and expect to hang on. The Danes have free run to do what they like for 3/4's of the pitch.
I didn't say those there on merit would score or win or anything fanciful like that.
Oh good, Hart is in the team. Hopefully we don't give away any free kicks in the dead centre of the pitch within 40 yards of the goal.
That's been coming. Arter summing up his shit performance so far with his hand in it.
Stephen Ward.
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Sloppy as fuck. That's that over then, there's not 3 goals in a game in this team and the scoreline is what both teams deserve at this stage.Stephen Ward.
Got 25 minutes of craic out of it anyway
You could cheer yourself up with the England game?
I’m watching Ireland but just compared the England and Brazil starting lineups and jeez louise it’s gonna be a stuffing. :roflmao:
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Can't wait to see Southgate try and get away with this ambition-free, static drivel against a good team when it's a competitive game and they actually care.
We're drinking every time Dunphy and Brady say 'Wes' or 'Houlihan' so I'll have to keep watching for the half time.
To be fair we'll have all our world class players back for any actual matches.
Good point, it'll be Harry Kane jogging about aimlessly rather than Vardy or Rashford.
Robbie Brady getting crabby with everyone when he's contributing sweet fuck all. Just as he has for the last year.
Lingard must be due another Wembley goal after failing on the weekend.
The one time that Rashford puts in a passable ball in from a set piece and Stones fucks it up.
That Sisto lad is a tidy enough player when he doesn't have to defend.
This is pretty much the Brazil starting XI isn't it? I can only assume South American qualifying isn't the footballing nightmare it is cracked up to be. Even with Jose Arcadia Buendia in charge they look fairly hopeless. It won't be David Luiz funny, but they'll get stomped by anyone half decent in an actual game.
7-1-2 is starting to grow on me, but it would be nice if the 1 and 2 were quite a bit better. Either that or Andy Carroll has to channel his inner Charisteas or something.
In the long and storied history of football has there ever been a player who more obviously plays for himself over all others than Neymar?
The sour faced one is a serious player. Two lovely goals.
Ah well, I said at the start of this thread that I'd have taken a Danish win so long as the Swiss did too, and I'll stand by that.
5-1, fucking hell.
The substitutions were a bit odd in fairness, so it was win or bust. And by fuck did it bust.
A Bendtner goal must be the ultimate insult
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