Jesus what a chasing.
Jesus what a chasing.
Solanke and Tammy Abraham? Brazil defence must be shitting themselves.
Be afraid, Brazil.
With any luck that contract isn't signed yet and they can 'lose' it.
Remember when we had prime Beckham taking set pieces? Seems we've gone so, so far with Rashford and Dier now.
Ashley Young is too good for Solanke.
No wonder Chelsea got rid of him.
Record amount of Nordic countries at the WC now.
Young contributing more in ten minutes than Bertrand did in 80? He's a much better crosser than any of the other wing backs.
Imagine being one of these poor fuckers who's paid actual money to stand in the freezing cold watching this England tripe
One can only hope we're fucking amazing at penalties these days.
That's the plan, right?
Is Maguire a defender? Livescore has him as part of a back 3.
Tony is an awful bollix though.
centrebackOriginally Posted by Giggles
I'm a twit
Tickets to Australia-Honduras this evening.
Has Martin O'Niell fucked off yet?
He signed a new contract last month so that seems unlikely.
It's not signed yet but it's 'on the table' for him.
There's very little chance that we ever do any better than this level but there comes a time when you just can't watch that shite any more. He's a dinosaur and some of the stories about his methods lately really make it time for him to go.
Peru being ranked tenth in the world is a real head scratcher.
How are Russia only 65 too? Is that a by-product of no competitive games for 2 years?
Russia
England
Iran
Australia
Will you join in booing their Anthem?Tickets to Australia-Honduras this evening.
Germany
England
Sweden
South Korea
^Group of death...
Belgium, England, Iran, Morocco.
Heard it here first.
It's your climate as well. No one from south of the Arctic Circle making the semis.Record amount of Nordic countries at the WC now.
Meanwhile, I don't understand why we wouldn't sack Southgate now and bring in a specialist tournament manager while they work out which FA stooge takes over in September. Is Otto Rehhagel in a care home yet? Maybe we can buy Hervé Renard out of his Morocco contract.
Failing that we could go in-house and promote the U17 manager.
Arsene said he wants to be an international manager soon. He's won eight million FA Cups.
He'll do, even if we do end up with a midfield of Jack Wilshere and Ben Sheaf.
Big Sam should really be re-hired now that everybody senior to him at the FA has been exposed as a complete and utter tit.
The post-mortems
Russia
Peru
Sweden
Saudi Arabia
Can only have two UEFA countries per group.
No group of death possible, surely. There's nobody good enough in pot 3.
This Australia-Honduras game is awful. Both teams pretty crap. 0-0 HT.
The ref deciding not to book anyone also means that the game is terribly stop and start.
We've beaten both France and Italy in the past year, and kept the latter + Holland from qualifying.
The pot 3 Nords will wipe the floor with all those pot 2 chancers.
See you at the World Cup lads.
Aussies deserved that in the end, being slightly less terrible than Honduras.
Only slightly. We're going to need to get a lot better than that when we're in sight of goal.
I'm pretty sure that Mile Jedinak is moonlighting as a barista on the corner of my block.
Yeah, fair enough!We've beaten both France and Italy in the past year, and kept the latter + Holland from qualifying.
People are never happy with the Ireland management these days. It's getting like the English press.
You'd think Wes Holohan was Maradona the way analysts go on. We have a shit crop of players so have to set up appropriately.
If New Zealand beat Peru, prepare for an avalanche of thinkpieces about GDP per capita being the benchmark for football success.
You obviously haven't watched a game in a good while. Dig out the Georgia away game or last Saturday and come back to me.
I did watch the game on Saturday. Your point?
Does Tim Cahill have the legs for it or are you just going to stick him in the box at all times and hope his head comes to save the day again?
I don't know if we've ever been as dull as we are now.
I'd sooner watch the 'golden generation' and the Euro 96 side come out of retirement to form a hybrid for the lols rather than the shower we'll actually send.
The style of football is prehistoric. If it was long ball then I wouldn't care, we've seen that it works but this is nothing but clear the ball and hope. And when you couple that with former players saying he does zero tactical or opposition preparation work then it's a joke he's in the job. He says we haven't the players (we don't, but they're still able to get on a ball and pass to a team mate for their clubs), which is all the more reason to prepare them if they're that bad. The changes in formation at half time last night show just how clueless he is tactically.
I'm trying to think of an Irish player with any pace or skill about them, to be fair.
Andy Townsend.
There are levels between what they're doing now and Barcelona and you don't need to be a world greater to have a tiny bit of composure. That's the biggest thing the mongs can't comprehend, that if anyone says the setup is horrendous then you're automatically looking for it to be total football. Black or white.
Do you see the likes of Harry Arter constantly hooking the ball clear over his head in acres of space when he's in red and black? The current style is something a league two side would be embarrassed to trot out.
Martin O'Neill was a relic 10 years ago, nevermind now.
As soon as he lost Robertson apparently.
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