Theo Walcott and Rio Ferdinand must be chuffed to bits not to be there. Where was the passion? Skill? Hunger? Pathetic. We were soundly beaten by a very average Germany - had we been playing Argentina, it could have been a score (on one side only) of recent tennis match proportions. Now there's a team that can play - rather than us hoofing it around the park. The world cup certainly won't miss England - and if we are honest, the 2nd round was beyond what our performances merited.
The sad thing is I'm not even upset. That's how overpaid, moronic footballers in the Premier league have left me feeling.
An uneventful day score-wise. The most noteworthy fact is that Ruaridh's world cup is almost as dead as England's. Winners?! What pills was he on?! I'm glad I was the only one who didn't have them in my final 4....
David will be feeling fairly stupid not to have had Germany in his last 8.
Tim 195
Stephen 194
David & Jake 169
Andy 160
Steve 159
Stu 158
Phil 154
Andy P 152
Ruaridh 134
Gregor 133
I've still got half a chance. All that's required is for Japan to beat Paraguay (thereby knocking out one of Tim's quarter finalists) and for Holland to beat Slovakia. That should give me a five point advantage. Then I need someone out of Chile, probably Holland or probably Uruguay to prevent Brazil from getting to the final (preferably Uruguay, so that Brazil could potentially win the 3rd and 4th place play-off). Alternatively, and probably a lot simpler, would be for none of Argentina, Brazil or Spain to get to the semis. Or something like that...However it pans what, I reckon a good final would be Holland v Argentina.
ReplyDeleteAs for England, the only plus points to come out of that "performance" yesterday are:
maybe now they'll realise they're nowhere near as good as they think they are;
we'll never see Emile Heskey, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Aaron Lennon, Jamie Carragher, Gareth Barry (what was he doing yesterday?!), David James (equally culpable as Terry and Upson for the first goal - what was he doing back-pedalling when all he needed to do was get to the edge of the area and claim the ball?) in an England shirt again;
we'll only take players who are fit - Rooney was totally off the pace (same could be said for Spain, with Torres struggling);
they'll ditch the old tried and trusted, yet totally predictable 4-4-2, which doesn't work when you've got no pace or imagination;
if they get to host the 2018 competition, they won't have to qualify.
I'm sure there's many more but, frankly, I can't be bothered to spend any more time over it.