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England getting pasted by Croatia

Mentalist

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40 minutes in. 2-0.


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Pathetic. At Wembley no less. If we don't win this game then we're out of Euro 2008 without even so much as qualifying.


How incredibly depressing.
 
Lets not forget to sack the manager, that always improves the situation no end.
 
On the off chance this might cheer you up:

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Here is my suggestion for our new manager.


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Lampard steps up to take a penalty and scores. 2-1 now.
 
Crouchy scroes from a Beckham cross! 2-2!


OK, if we can keep this up we will qualify.
 
I'm torn, truly torn. Goran Visnjic is much sexier than Beckham, Cristiano, or Henman.

If there's a true hottie on the England team, my loyaties can be locked down.
 
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FUcking aslkjakl;sdmuppets


2-3 to Croatia.
 
Here is my suggestion for our new manager.


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I presented to a client the other day that they bring back the home internationals for next year.

I even contacted Gazzas manager about an appearance to do a reconstruction of the famous Scottish goal. i thought that was particularly magnanimous of me as I am Scottish.
 
Scotland were screwed by a biased referee who was wined and dined by the Itlalians. I didn't watch the game, but it was int he papers so it MUST be true.
 
Wrighty's voice wavered, Lineker's ears drooped. Even Alan Hanson's scar turned to a frown. It was a sad evening. But it's true that based on the quality of play, we didn't really deserve to win. There were SO many chances thrown out to us and they passed by. I can't help thinking that Beckham should have been on from the start, but then what do I know about football.
 
FUCK!




(had to work and I just got home)


oh, FUCK!

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I have some very bad plonk left in the house somewhere and now will be forced to drink it. :(



GODDAMNIT. AW.


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Fuddlemiff said:
Wrighty's voice wavered, Lineker's ears drooped. Even Alan Hanson's scar turned to a frown. It was a sad evening. But it's true that based on the quality of play, we didn't really deserve to win. There were SO many chances thrown out to us and they passed by. I can't help thinking that Beckham should have been on from the start, but then what do I know about football.
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Becks definitely should have started. England's problem is that we have all these world class players yet we don't mesh on the pitch. Becks as Captain, as surprising as it may seem, has a real commanding presence and rallies the rest of the team to perform. And he is still a great player who can deliver at the higest levels despite what you may hear.

And I agree with having too many chances. We certainly didn't deserve to get bailed out by Andorra after the way we have played recently.


Very disappointed not to be going to Euro '08 though. :|
 
*sigh*.
 
really thought England would pull one out of the hat one more time.
jesus. no rooney, no terry...good on lamps and Peter C....ah, shit.


p.s. last sober post: yes becks should've been in from get-go. spilt milk now.
 
England suffered the humiliation of a 3-2 defeat to an already qualified Croatia at Wembley on Wednesday, a result that means they miss out on their first international tournament since the 1994 World Cup. McClaren will bear the brunt of the criticism, but even if he is sacked or resigns, it will merely be the tip of the iceberg. English football is in need of a complete overhaul, from top to bottom



‘England win.’ ‘England win.’ ‘England win – comfortably.’ Those were the pre-match predictions of BBC TV pundits Ian Wright, Alan Shearer and Alan Hansen on Wednesday night.

Given a life-line by Israel on Saturday, most of the nation – if not the players themselves – thought that tonight’s game, and therefore qualification for Euro 2008, was a mere formality.

It has been an up-and-down campaign for McClaren’s men. In perhaps the least expected of fashions, it petered out on a low.

The shock on the faces of England’s players, their supporters and the studio experts betrayed one thing: none of them had seen it coming.

Last week, I wrote about the ignorance that I believe plagues English football, an accusation that the majority of Goal.com readers agreed with.

One wonders how many England players were aware of the dangers of letting Mladen Petric and his trusty left foot – which has scored several crackers from distance for Borussia Dortmund already this season – anywhere near the ball within shooting range.

The BBC pundits had largely written off Wednesday’s visitors: it was no coincidence that Premiership duo Eduardo and Kranjcar were the only ones given a fleeting mention as potential threats.

Even the early gloom that descended following the visitors’ 2-0 lead lifted rapidly upon Peter Crouch’s superb equaliser. Never was it contemplated that England could, at 2-2, emerge with anything less than that magic point that would secure Euro 2008 qualification.

But Slaven Bilic’s side were, frankly, immense. Only the most ardent of England followers could claim that their victory was not deserved. The cavalier attitude they adopted towards a game in which they had nothing to play for made for extremely entertaining viewing for their supporters and the neutral alike.

Croatia may be a land of just 5 million inhabitants, but at Wembley on Wednesday they were the learned professors who gave England a footballing lesson they will not forget in a hurry. Slaven Bilic has crafted a well-drilled unit, a side accustomed to playing together and in a particular formation.

Contrast this to England – 16 months after taking charge, McClaren still doesn’t really know his best XI or indeed the optimal formation, even taking the injuries to players like Owen and Rooney into consideration.

Handing Carson his competitive international debut in a match of this magnitude was a huge risk, and something the coach paid for. Doubts over Robinson’s abilities were nothing new. So why wasn’t a replacement for Robinson afforded competitive match experience in less pressured qualifiers against the likes of Israel or Estonia?

Much will (or at least should) be learned from tonight’s shambolic performance, but the lessons should not stop with the Croatia game.

England remaining at home next summer draws parallels with a boy whose parents force him to stay in and do his homework rather than join his friends at the party, telling him that although he doesn’t understand it now, in the long run it will be for his own good.

It’s a bitter pill to swallow at the moment, but Wednesday’s failure must be seen in a positive light: one gains the impression that England scraping through to Euro 2008 may simply have seen all the recent woes conveniently swept under the carpet until the inevitable quarter-final exit.

Now, deep-rooted problems can be confronted head-on. We, the English fans, need to stop being so inward looking, so blissfully ignorant of the footballing threats players abroad pose. But the main requirement is the installation of a new, slicker set-up, from grass roots level up.

McClaren’s head may well roll following this debacle, but true progress will not be made until the men above him also tender their resignation. The scrapping of the proposed youth academy at Burton-On-Trent, the hashed manner in which the FA appointed McClaren in the first place and the shambolic construction of the new Wembley suggest that English football is rotten from top to bottom. It needn’t be this way.

As the aspirations of England’s ‘Golden Generation’ turn once more to dust, now is the perfect time to begin the regeneration. Fans and media alike must realise that many of England’s problems have long-term solutions: we will always produce good quality players, we will continue to be a good side, but it may yet be a while until England is able to legitimately challenge for World and European honours once more.

Until then, fans should sit back, relax and continue to enjoy the ever-popular Premier League – but perhaps it wouldn’t hurt to pay attention to football played beyond these shores occasionally, too. That’s a lesson that the likes of Wright and Shearer would also do well to heed
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