Come anticipate Roy Hodgson's three months in charge og England with me.

because

not fair

AH TITS

MATT

yah spelt Woy wong

subliminal message for millionaire malcontents imo

Original England? Was Erikksen Nu England? Or was that Club England?

Or have England persuaded top Utd striker og to turn out in the national colours. A real coup that.

i like that best, yeah

so glad he got own goal back into the game, he was doing so well for Utd last season.

I thought OG was Gary Caldwell. You can have him if you want.

Harry, apparently, "don't hold grudges."

Generous of him.

job was his to take but he fluffed is fackin lines since feb

not so easy to avoid prison when you're wheeling and dealing in citizenships

looking over Tube shoulders, I saw that the Daily Mirror got in quick with saying that they'd passed over the fans' choice for a "yes man in a blazer". RIP blazers.

i wonder if houellebecq shares an etymology with welbeck

Emmanuel Eboue ‏ @TheRealEboue
I think Fergie had too much wine b4 d game. Why wud u play park when u hv wellberg, why wud u play nani when u hv valencia. D man was drunk

I didn't realize that Roy played in apartheid era South Africa.

I didn't know that. He was also working as a PE teacher at the time, it doesn't sound like it was the Gatting tour or anything.

bernstein and hodgson have a real 1972 sort of ambience

this is a good thing

some real lowball questions from the vermin in the press corps

gwan?

just going on about redknapp

ah, fair questions tbh? Didn't we all expect him to get it?

watch the tapes, deems

ya this is a thoroughly patriarchal showing from a bygone time

nice of bernstein to share woy's speech impediment too. cwumpets all wound, pip pip

hodgson scanning the room, bug-eyed and crumpled

sit up straight at least you weird little hedgehog

is this dan walker asking these cunts questions

he is seriously having a bubble if he thinks he's making it through the pearly gates

The ex-Tottenham centre-back said his Swiss experience will help Hodgson with England, whose only major tournament victory remains the 1966 World Cup.

"In what way is it different to the Swiss job? What have the FA and the England team achieved since 1966?" he said.

pictures of this guy are the best
http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/images/2012/0501/royhodgsonenglandwembley20120501_576x324.jpg

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/gallery/prem-managers-young/pa-photos_t_premier-league-managers-young-gallery-pies-1412g.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/01/article-2138032-12DDD4E6000005DC-850_634x435.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/29/article-2137088-12D60DE4000005DC-913_634x370.jpg

Wow, that one is super

is that bird shit by his left hand in that wembley pic? poor aim.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article812687.ece/BINARY/Roy+Hodgson+with+Stefan+Schwarz+at+Malmo+FC+in+1987

http://www.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article812681.ece/BINARY/Roy+Hodgson+with+Tord+Grip+who+later+become+assistant+manager+under+Sven+Goran+Eriksson

http://images.az24.vn/baloteen/picture/article/2012/0501/Roy_Hodgson__tHogdson-2.jpg

nice

http://images.az24.vn/baloteen/picture/article/2012/0501/Roy_Hodgson__tBlackburn.jpg

uh oh

http://www.lfchistory.net/images/hodgson.roy/hodgson-swiss.jpg

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/birmmail/jun2011/2/9/maidstone-united-team-453342938.jpg

i think that's him above and to the left of the manager but tbh i stopped looking and started lolling once i spotted the bloke bottom right

bottom right bloke for england

hodgson, bob houghton, lennie lawrence and steve kember were all in the same class at grammar school in croydon

betcha didnt know that

you lose

bah

idk about you lot but after seeing all these woy pics spanning the ages i'm really kinda starting to confuse him with john pertwee era dr who

these pictures are making me happy :)

starting to confuse him with john pertwee era dr who

lol

Points per game before England job became available (8th February)
Spurs: 2.08
WBA: 1.08

Points per game from 8th February until Hodgson's appointment:
Spurs: 1.09
WBA: 1.67

Points per game since:
Spurs: 3.00
WBA: n/a

can we get a 'points per minute with lennon on the pitch'

I'm already stretching the limits of my statistical analysis skills (adding and dividing). I think you'd need to pay Opta to confirm what you know to be true.

yeah, pointless to look for confirmation from a source i'd disregard if it disagreed with my opinion (ie any source, tbf)

woy may have all the credentials in the world but imo he'll only have really proved himself if he bosses wba to a awesome destruction of bolton on saturday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNRovd77M2g

really should have come into the england press conference with this blasting

i saw a young white person refer to an asian shopkeeper as ~bossman~ the other day

this probably happens more often in neighbourhoods with more bossmaners and bossmanees

god you do realize every time a crappy barton type football player gets a 300% payrise for moving on a free, they will be referred to as BOSSMEN, ironically or otherwise, for ever after

yeah i've picked up the oi bossman cheers bossman habit myself tbh

what is it

http://www.youtube.com/v/YNRovd77M2g&fs=1&hl=en

really should have come into the england press conference with this blasting

― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:56 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i saw a young white person refer to an asian shopkeeper as ~bossman~ the other day

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:57 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mods don't see youtube clips embed, so to my delight this exchange was built around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BP0OGmhb7c

which would make woy's press conference the best thing ever for me if it happened.

that's got to be the first grime emcee with a confederate flag decal

seriously, this guy's face is really something

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0501/soc_g_hodgsonr2_640.jpg

New England boss Roy Hodgson spoke with John Terry and Rio Ferdinand on Tuesday and has decided that only one can go to Euro 2012, according to ESPN sources.

The expectation is that the Chelsea captain will miss out on the European Championships, but that remains unconfirmed until the squad is announced at 1pm on Wednesday.

that wd already make him second best England manager ever

This is a pretty swift fall from grace for Terry, no? Out of the CL final, out of the Euros, Andy Carroll making him look like a dick. A slightly slower decline might be better, maybe a bit of pathos, to let the media narrative catch up.

he just needs to be convicted of the race charge to polish off a memorable season

It's just about conceivable that he'll never play again. I'd like his career to decay a bit more visibly I think.

he'll deny it to the end

worse happens he gets two injury blighted seasons at the san siro on 7m a year

the whole laughing at the nasty man getting comeuppance routine, apart from its generic pusallinimity, is kinda hollow when he retires to a big house in surrey full of hedge fund brochures and gilded furniture and behaves abominably for the rest of his pampered life

counterpoint
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lizhkj3eZB1qdk155.jpg

otm

terry is a retard

he probably looks like that when he runs out of jelly beans

the condition of a gilded age epl superstar is pretty much constant fulfillment blighted by occasionally disturbing interludes

I'll take what i can get. His failure to win the Champions League eats away at him i can assure you

so jermaine pennant gets a three year driving ban and has to trade in his 911 for a chauffeur driven maybach with a fridge full of krug so he doesn't have to spend a single moment of the offseason sober

oh man

rio stays home, ebjt to ukr

unless they're both going to be left out of the squad. seems unlikely obv.

welp.

guardian says micah richards is out too? what's the logic behind putting phil 'not actually a right back' jones and glen 'glen johnson' johnson ahead of him?

wait what is there a squad?

i'd assume, tbph, that k walker is ahead of either johnson or richards, and prolly jones too at rb?

ah shit, walker injured

johnson for me, the best attacking fullback out of the lot of them

johnson has been the first-choice. don't see that changing.

well if Phil Jones is his only competition...

Harsh on Rio though

ferguson assured the public that rio wouldn't be fit enough

johnson ahead of richards sounds about right besides

but it's Jones ahead of Richards really

johnson ahead of richards sounds mental to me too, i suspect i rate richards higher than anyone else on the planet does and i've no idea why.

should just play Neville tbh

you liked the video of him and some other dude roasting someone in a mcdonalds toilet?

that is unfortunate

richards is the more complete player but he's not getting enough games at citeh- i'd rate him potentially better than any other young english talent tbh

oh it was a hotel toilet apparently, apologies micah

the ho did not tell the identity of the other dude

well u c i have good reasons for supporting micah.

idk, who cares which b+ player plays in which position, it's all about the race war from now on

it's part of the long-term plan to follow the dutch model

which other racists are there to pick besides terry?

are we going to speculate?

sure, it'd be fun if j** h*** sued ilx.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2105713/Stuart-Pearce-Ive-changed-making-racist-jibe-Paul-Ince.html

I'm sure Pearce has many lively discussions about race with his 8NP activist brother.

Goalkeepers Hart, Green, Ruddy

Defenders Baines, Cahill, Cole, Johnson, Lescott, Terry, Jones

Midfielders Barry, Downing, Gerrard, Lampard, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Parker, Walcott, Young, Milner

Strikers Carroll, Defoe, Rooney, Welbeck

when you see it written down like that...

Standby: Butland, Jagielka, Henderson, Johnson, Sturridge

so, who's Butland?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Butland

weak at cb, rb, cm, rm, lm, and upfront

Is that Adam Johnson on stand by?

Or Andy Johnson!! lol

That midfield! Jeezus.

lennon doesn't make the standbys, lol

I mean an entire midfield with at best 2 players who've had decent half seasons (Parker and Barry) And Barry is still forlornly chasing Ozil in my mind.

On the other hand Roy's done a good job of dampening down expectation there. Getting out of the group would be a Mourinho level of achievement.

England shouldn't be boring. Not a great start.

Midfielders: Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern München), Toni Kroos (Bayern München), Thomas Müller (Bayern München), André Schürrle (Bayer Leverkusen), Lars Bender (Bayer Leverkusen), Sami Khedira (Real Madrid), Mesut Özil (Real Madrid), Marco Reus (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Sven Bender (Borussia Dortmund), Ilkay Gündogan (Bourssia Dortmund), Mario Götze (Borussia Dortmund), Julian Draxler (Schalke 04), Lukas Podolski (1. FC Köln)

the two must meet

tbf any selection is deckchairs on the titanic stuff, a cm of cleverley and guthrie with thudd as registra is gonna get biffed off just the same

yeah deffo. It was more like, as number none put it, when you see the squad written down you see what meager pickings Eng have.

Vindication for Dalglish tho, we really have signed the cream of English talent over the last 18 months. Hendersen on stand-by to make it a clean sweep.

yeah but picking form players from outside top four would at least be an acknowledgement of a willingness to try to fuckin change it

Carrick really should have made it. I've thrown a lot of bile the guy's way over the years but i honestly think this has been the best season he's had for Utd

deems at this point the only effect hodgson can have is to suggest rearrangements of the old deckchairs and titanic metaphor

Didn't notice Carrick's absence but yes, hard done by.

he was sitting in the deckchair next to scholes

carrick? oh shit, that's harsh.

i mean i don't think he's any fuckin use, but look who's going ffs

parker will just get serially fucked by every cm even like sweden

back to askin why the fa are paying anyone to sit back every two years and ask 'what the fuck d'you want from me, eh?'

come on we all know what carrick is by now

deems picking grant holt or nathan dyer is not gonna shake anything up, the only thing to do is study how outside top 4 managers get better returns out of these even more limited players and try to apply it -- and even then lol premiership metrics in europe

downing selection is mad grating i agree but even then the only option is someone else a bit less out of form; johnson, sturridge, richards can be said to be hard done by but then theyre not even first choice picks for their clubs so

lennon doesn't make the standbys, lol

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:30 (26 minutes ago)

and i assume this wasnt a complaint cos lol rite back at u if so

their clubs are far far better than england, tbh

lennon's england's best right winger, unless i've missed somebody v obvious

deems otm

parker will just get serially fucked by every cm even like sweden

otm

hart
johnson johnson johnson johnson
johnson johnson johnson johnson
johnson johnson

this tournament will be the end of the hype over him.

struggle to think of an english cm who'll get less overrun than parker, tbf.

can't believe Roy overlooked Scunthorpe's greatest ever player tbh

We have a second-choice goalkeeper who has been playing all season in the Championship and his morale is still probably destroyed from 2010.

gk reliant on morale can gtfo play snooker or w/e christ sakes.

should, obv, have picked barton

Laura Barton I presume?

Lars Bender (Bayer Leverkusen)

childish lol

xpost gerrard won't be overrun as such, just he doesn't actually do anything anymore. his goals tally is hugely down, he doesn't bother tackling/defending anymore and he never surges forward on the ball either as far as i can tell. keep waiting for him to get a new lease of life but don't think it's going to happen.

i just think parker is too ponderous for international level. he was exposed hugely in the holland game.

parker is smallish, leaden footed, unintelligent and technically limited

all he has is work rate and aggression

Laura Barton I presume?

a lofty ball descended, the scent of the sea on its fine pig's bladder, if that were still used as in times of yore.

then a striker cunted it into the net.

hey now it's hardly parker's fault that he's english
xp

Is everyone else still playing with two holding midfielders? Parker alongside someone else, ie Carrick, might have worked reasonably well, but we have no idea.

Foster, Richards, Ferdinand, Jagielka, Gibbs, Lennon, Carrick, Scholes, A Johnson, Sturridge, Crouch <- would stand a chance of beating that lot.

surprised woy didnt/couldnt get ben foster out of retirement

the lack of interest in richards surprises me, he looks pretty damn effective to me.

why would benfo suddenly decide spending four and a half hours on a bench in eastern europe sounds like fun

i don't think foster could be arsed unless he was actually gonna play, which was unlikely.

neither mancini nor capello seem to trust richards, he's always looked good to me.

"I spoke to Kenny at length about [Carroll] ... and he was absolutely convinced about the players ability, personality and seriousness as a professional. When I heard that I had no further reservations."

parker wins, protects, recycles possession, he's got decent feet and offers a lot of out ball for the fullbacks. Undersold itt.

duh-duh
duh DUH duh-duh duh
duh-duh
duh-duh
duh-duh duh duh duh

I spoke to Kenny at length about Carroll , Downing, Gerrard, Henderson ... and he was absolutely convinced about the players ability, personality and seriousness as a professional. When I heard that I had no further reservations."

Roy never fails to strike the wrong note. I've been stanning bigtime for Carroll, but now I'm not sure.

england manager talking to a club manager about anything other than a player's fitness should be a sackable offence imo

bitter scot always a reliable source of advice for the england manager, i wonder did he call roy keane as well

cos kenny was likely to say - "you know what roy i spent £35m on the fucker and not a day not an hour not a minute not a second has gone by since when i've not regretted it and wept bitter tears at my folly. He's no good Roy, he's...just..no..good" (sound of sobbing down the line)

and yet still no call up for kit deal

I was wrong, Roy has failed to dampen down expectations. For some people I suspect such a thing is impossible

Riaz Hussain on Twitter: "There's enough in the selected squad to reach final of Euro 2012.Lets not forget we have 4 or 5 world class players included"

hart, terry, gerrard, lampard, rooney.
Bish bash boosh.

maybe he meant the finals

tbf he didn't specify what year they were world class in.
Hart-2014
Terry-2009
Gerrard-2004
Lampard-2007
Rooney-2004

There you go

lol NV

Roy never fails to strike the wrong note

yeah exactly, knew his inability to control his gob would cause him nightmares in this role.

Ronan I'm sure you'kk be pleased to know that the Bundesliga has not one but two Benders - Lars Bender AND Sven Bender.

this pick is stupid, why roy why

It is certainly easy to pick holes in his Euro 2012 squad and there were times when Hodgson strayed dangerously close to perplexing his audience. At one point he cited the way Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had troubled Andrea Pirlo in Arsenal's Champions League tie against Milan (Pirlo had left the club the previous summer). Later, the manager explained he had called off next week's training camp in Málaga partly because Manchester City's players had been celebrating a league triumph and "would find it hard to be on a plane on Monday". You looked at him to see if it was a joke and it quickly became apparent it wasn't.

The simple truth is there is an absence of real quality in abundance, something that was not lost on Hodgson. "You don't necessarily have to be the best team to win a tournament," he said. "You can get by with good team spirit, and a bit of luck at the right times."

These were revealing moments by the side of Manchester City's pitch, if only for the frequency with which Hodgson halted play to pass on instructions. "Very hands-on," James Milner observed afterwards. Vocal, too. "You don't have to use short passes," the new England manager could be heard shouting at one point. "Not if you want to use your big man up front." Carroll put the ball past Joe Hart and Hodgson nodded his head appreciatively. "Well done, son."

That strike puts Carroll into double figures for the third consecutive season.

xp or as Daniel Agger knows, "launch it!"

Anticipating a lot of "Terry... forward to Gerrard... looking for Carroll... chance for (England's opposition) to come forward now..." in commentary.

The two times it results in England goals will justify something.

If Ruddy's out, does this mean the guy I've never heard of is in?

jack butland!

@Johnruddy86
Also to everyone who has asked…as if it wasn’t unlucky enough, it IS my ring finger and also my first ever broken bone!

Dude who made his League Two debut in November ahead of Fraser Forster (70 cleans sheets in three seasons with Norwich then Celtic) pretty much shows no-one playing in Scotland will ever get a chance.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/2012/05/24/if-celtic-keeper-fraser-forster-wants-to-play-for-england-he-needs-to-play-in-england-says-john-ruddy-86908-23871039/

really didnt have to go that far to prove his point

Isn't this how Sly Stallone got his big chance in Escape to Victory? That was in Ukraine too iirc.

VICTOIRE!!

Still, if it all leads to Hodgson doing anything remotely like this it'll be worth it

http://youtu.be/xOVsji5dL-k

Haha wow. I have got. To. Watch that.

aka "less ferdinund" iirc

Caaaarlton!

Worth watching just to remember the likes of TONY DORIGO

"He speaks my language," said the former Wimbledon manager [Egil Olsen] of his opposite number. "In my opinion, they should go more direct. I am a more direct manager but, even here, people don't agree with me. I guess in Norway I belong to a little group [of one], and in England people don't like the direct approach and such strict defensive organisation."

How on earth did he manage to fail at Wimbledon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GB1KTIACtk

I think I'll need to watch that documentary again. England's loss is punditry's gain.

yeah i started watching it yesterday

didnt know about barnes ever being booed, was he shit for england at the time?

gazza stealing the show obv. "who do think you are now geordie? you're just a thick fuckin geordie like me!" banter to shearer with just the ever-so-slightest edge you can't quite dismiss

and lawrie mcmenemy and phil neal... fucking hell not a single clue

Barnes was pretty poor as i recall, disappeared for long stretches of the game. Also England fans.

<3 Graham Taylor for that film, and I haven't even seen it yet. I hope someone's working on Roy for one.

Barnes was always unpopular, was he not? He could never live up to that first goal.

Bergkamp's goal at 8:45 here is sublime. Such a Bergkamp goal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZwOxMxa9I4

ian wright cutting his spaghetti up with a knife and fork is probably the most painful thing in the film so far tbh

"fucking hell... you talk until you're fucking blue in the face don't ya" - Taylor brilliantly summing up the helplessness of a manager once the players cross the line

i haven't watched it since it was first broadcast, i shd definitely revisit it with the benefit of hindsight

Phil Neal spends the whole time agreeing with/repeating anything anyone says - I think he must have been the inspiration for this sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIyRJg7i_i0

yeah i remember the Phil Neal thing, it just seems like coaches' natural role, i remember laughing at Don Howe writing his postcards from the bench under Greenwood

Shall we make this our 'ILF comes together to watch' #2?

interesting when he's doing the visit with the prison inmates and even then they're talking about how kids playing on full size pitches is bad for development same as now 18 years on

There's a great scene where he's discussing something with Phil Neal, who is just violently agreeing with everything he says, and they look towards McMenemy for his opinion and he's moved as far away from them as he can on the bench and is writing (presumably his resignation letter) on a scrap of paper.

Shall we make this our 'ILF comes together to watch' #2?

― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 26 May 2012 12:57 (20 minutes ago)

where were you when i suggested this a month ago?

Sorry dude, I'm not on here *all* the time.

bookmarks dude, bookmarks :D

Yeah it was a lie anyway

are ITV having a laugh with their camera work here?

are pirlo and ambrosini playing?

lol, that was useless. Made more so by Hodgson opining post-match that England passed the ball too much in the 2nd half and should have got it forward earlier! England's passing was shocking, although Downing can add +1 to his total of "should have been an assist" thanks to Carroll wasting a lovely cross. Nice goal from Ashley Young although Hangeland's defending was woeful. Still in ever changing times it's nice that at least the general level of England performances remains the same.

do you reckon there's twitter #joeks going around about john terry congratulating england on their hard fought 0-0 away win

Richard Williams in fine form

With a deftly volleyed reverse-angle pass reminiscent of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Carroll made the opportunity for Young to score the opening goal with a composed shot across Rune Jarstein.

You can't both be right

It wasn't good, second half.

RIP Gareth Barry, heaven needed a dude to chase hopelessly after Mesut Ozil.

that was two years ago, he must reached him by now

you'd think!

ozil needs to be substituted cuz he runs out of steam after 70 minutes so with reference to hare v tortoise it is submitted that tortoise will on a long enough timescale have reached the exhausted hare

In two minds whether to watch this tourney now

two more minds than england will have on the pitch

apparently the dude from kazabian is now in contention for the plane

In Krakow the team will be located in the centre of the city and Neville believes giving the squad a sense of freedom will provide normality and help improve performance levels.

"That is the big message, to have players doing what they would normally do.

"You can never replicate the home environment but in terms of being free to go for a coffee or to the shops - we should embrace it, even though it has never been done before."

i've got a feeling neville is about to spunk all the good will he's gained this past season up the wall at this tournament.

I think if/when it all goes tits up it's going to be seen as Hodgson's fault and Neville goes back to punditry relatively unscathed.

Still, I look forward to seeing Wazza doing whatever the Polish equivalent of the Dentist's Chair is.

i think when it goes tits up we've probably already got a "only just got the job, lot of injuries, players underperformed" storyline that will see Hodgson come away relatively undamaged

'england are shit, stop frontin' is p. much in the oven rising when any new manager walks into the kitchen

but we mustn't underestimate Woy's PR skills which cd well snatch hatred from the jaws of empathy

I think England getting out of the group will be enough to stop Roy taking too much criticism given how low expectations are (compared with previous tournaments). That should be enough to take him through qualifying from an easy group to being sacked for not reaching the semis of the next World Cup.

from an easy WC group, that is.

England's prospects of getting out the group have got to be pretty low tbh. France seem tasty, Ukraine have home advantage and are rumoured to be alright, and the squad, manager and formation is almost custom-designed not to beat Sweden. Then there's injuries, insane logistics, general knackeredità, ennui and so forth.

Even with historically low expectations they are joint favourites with France to win the group. Ukraine are about as good as Scotland. Sweden game will be tight but I think England will edge it.

Think Eng will draw all 3 games (that's being optimistic re France game but opening games always seem to be draws)

i was impressed with how quickly hodgson got that SHAPE drilled into them for the norway game. i wouldn't be surprised if they did quite well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/sports/soccer/31iht-soccer31.html

What will they tell England’s star players? How will Rooney, the best of the English but a player banned from the first two matches of the Euro because of his inability to control his temper, respond to hearing about lessons from the Holocaust?

o_O

england's expectations are never rly that 'high' tbh, and the day before kickoff they won't be that low all of a sudden

cos as a nation of football fans, and you know i got love for you outliers, ye're incredibly fucking stupid, even for football fans.

it's true the guff you hear fans spout is unbelievable but i figured that was just fans everywhere like

I think maybe only Italian fans have a worse sense of entitlement.

And to be fair they've won a few more World Cups than England, but they're worse when they lose.

England fans have entitlement plus a genuine sense that they've never seen a game of football before but the latter may be Carling-related

nah they're about as bad just more competent at violence

i have no hopes or expectations. a few laughs and some hodgson headbanging and i'll be happy.

I don't even know when the tournament is or who we're playing. Things I know: Rooney is suspended for the first two matches, Roy Hodgson is the new manager, England will be somewhere in the Ukraine, Gerrard has been brought back as captain (actually, not 100% sure if the last one is true).

England will be somewhere in the Ukraine

Then why are they training in Krakow?

they've got round trips of 2000 miles for the matches against France and Ukraine

and a round trip of 2000 miles to get to Krakow

though in fairness the second leg of that's not 'til after the final

it was Capello's doing anyway. He had a chance to change the location when the draw was made but refused

his last act of revenge, perhaps

Hodgson on Lampard: "There was no chance I could take a risk again with Frank because there could have been the possibility he could not have played in the first two games and possibly the third.". Just like... Rooney, save for the fact he can't possibly get himself banned from that third game until he actually steps on the pitch.

At least Rooney will be fully fit when he gets on the pitch. Don't see the point in taking an injured and probably off-the-pace Lampard at all.

ts: playing alongside stevie g or
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/01/article-2153112-136310D3000005DC-596_468x308.jpg

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/rio-ferdinand-and-gary-lineker-hit-861423

What's Roy going to do if he runs out of white defenders to stick next to that odious cunt?

otm

eh, is lescott not going to be playing beside him?

Is Rio saying he wouldn't have a problem playing alongside Terry now? Maybe we've all got the wrong end of the stick and it's really Cahill he can't stomach.

Terry shouldn't be anywhere near the England team

But Pleat, a former Spurs boss and now a Radio 5 Live pundit, said: “I think the agent of Ferdinand is really out of order.

“Agents of other players could equally make a case from time to time. Micah Richards [of Manchester City] evidently has had a very good season and he’s been 'shunned', so to speak.

is that meant to help the case?

danny simpson
kyle naughton

oh shit how did none of the newcastle players make it

Because Newcastle don't actually have any particularly good English players?

Half of Newcastle's squad is English and they finished way above a team that's making up more than a quarter of the England squad. Is Martin Kelly better than every English defender at Newcastle?

Sure. Sad to see LFC missing out on a full team at the Euros by 2 spots. Suppose I'll have to count Nando, Xabi, and Arbeloa.

Is Martin Kelly better than every English defender at Newcastle?

― a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace (onimo), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:20 (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

plainly he is

perch, simpson, williamson, the taylor wot hits it sometimes, and shola ameobi would barely grace a promoted side in fact

shawx otoh should be in really

Better to take a guy who hasn't played a single game in his team's worst league campaign since fuck knows when xp

played 18 and looked p decent, what you on about

Aye my mistake I looked up his appearances and they were listed the wrong way round, with his first season last. Knew I'd seen him more than that in the late part of the season.

Ten league starts (only one between October and March - though he was used in most cup games*). Lost four of them. Four clean sheets. As decent as anyone in a Liverpool shirt this season then (i.e. significantly worse than Newcastle).

*kind of makes sense to pick so many players from this season's Cup Team, I suppose, and to ignore league form as it's mostly foreigners making the difference at the top of the table.

That last bit is great. If Kenny had said that instead of 'kit deal' he'd still be in a job.

Sol Campbell going in heavy

"If it is ever proven true that John Terry was chosen over Rio because of race then I would tell the FA that they can take back my 73 caps and scrub my name out of the record books."

Did laugh that in the same article he claims there was no better defender than himself in the 2009-10 season when he went back to Arsenal. I don't quite remember it that way tbh.

no better defender of himself

no better defneder at arsenal while the 400 others were injured maybe

Last year, rare mistakes [by Hart] gifted Switzerland’s Tranquillo Barnetta two goals at Wembley. “I’d have liked to have saved both but I’m not going to defend what happened and say, ‘It’s so tough’ and ‘bodies are flying in’. It happened. We got the result and I’m grateful.

“Ashley Young scored a late goal and we qualified. I just don’t get too wrapped up in it. I think about it technically and what I could have done better. Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.”

Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.

quite possibly my new fave quote of all time

England pose a danger too, Hart emphasised. “When it comes to shooting, there’s no one I look forward to facing. Everyone has a fair old wallop or can wrong-foot you. We’ve got goals in the team.”

he's easy come, easy go

when will they learn? you can't just let footballers talk.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/13/article-2158619-13960FDB000005DC-489_634x465.jpg

Welcome party: Roy Hodgson and his England team prepare to welcome the WAGS

'a hoy hoy'

ashley young is a wee lad isn't he

no wonder the powers that be at noted tika taka exponents watford were loathe to give him a contract

three years more like :-)

that xi with carroll parker gerrrd is fucking toilet

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/23/article-2163751-13C0544B000005DC-134_634x430.jpg

"You know when you take the job, you're dead. All you can hope is that you can enjoy that time on your death bed and that when you're resurrected a few years later, people say 'You know, he wasn't that bad'."

now that is the roar of an english lion i can get behind

If I somehow found myself a leader, that's how I'd do it.

does england have anyone that can cross and deliver set pieces as well as leighton baines? with his left foot? any reason roy shouldn't just play him as a winger?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19827887

i think Ferdinand's a good way past it but has he jilted Hodgson's daughter or something?

snubbed her iirc

nice to see roy channeling the spirit of christian gross

"I would never dream of telling a player when its the end of the line or whatever I'm supposed to have said. That's up to the player to decide for himself, and hopefully that won't be the case.

"When I speak to him I'll make it clear I haven't selected him - who knows if I will select him in the next one - but it would be up to him whether he wants to be a part of it or not."

trans: just fucking retire Rio

Fraser Forster giving away a stupid goal in the Champs League has worked wonders for his profile I see. He was completely overlooked while breaking SPL clean sheet records for two straight seasons then makes an arse of a shot that wasn't even going in and he gets the call-up.

gary hooper scoring in the champions league gets him nowhere.

A sports writer on one of Scotland's premier football phone-ins (ikr) the other night said "I could easily name twenty English strikers better than Gary Hooper" - presenter said "Go on then" pundit said "Look I'm not going to sit here and name them! But there's at least twenty!"

was just reading up on Hooper after his exploits the other night. Interesting story

I think he was a great buy for us at something like 5% of an Andy Carroll (who Hooper outscored with a lesser team in the Championship). I can't see us hanging onto him beyond next summer, particularly if he puts in another good CL performance. He was man of the match by miles the other night and was involved in everything good that happened for Celtic.

pick england's xi atm?

                              hart
Walker  Caulker    Lescott    Baines
Lennon    Parker   Livermore   D Rose
             Thudd
                       Defoe
        

Not too sure about lescott, he's not really getting a game iirc?

central midfield a little cloggy, against weaker teams i might throw in a more attacking player, andros townsend maybe idk

Surely Cudicini's naturalised by now?

if they weren't gonna play a high line dawson would be clear favourite obv. Struggled over gk but hart's doin ok i'd keep him in there over the strong challenge of wycombe's jordan archer (on a week's loan from spurs iirc)

lol ik with the 'alternative view' nice one ismael always good to get the jokey offering imo

Back in 2000, Gerrard’s debut against Ukraine gave him first-hand, in-the-face experience of the demands of captaincy and England expectations.

Just out of his teenage years, Gerrard sat nervously in the dressing-room at Wembley, listening to the captain, Alan Shearer, shouting “get stuck in”.

Tony Adams, another leader, walked across and stood in front of Gerrard, checking on final preparations to meet Andrei Shevchenko, Sergei Rebrov and company.

“Are you f****** ready?” bellowed Adams. Gerrard looked into Adams’ eyes, understood the supreme significance of the occasion, and replied: “You bet I’m f****** well ready.”

This sounds like the worst thing in the world.

adams yanked him by his shirt into a rough embrace. the first kiss tasted of last night's skol and today's rothmans.

You wanna know how to beat Ukraine? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the England way! And that's how you beat Ukraine. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?!

I wonder if Casillas and Xavi got all up in Mata's grill before the Euro final?

they took him to a bar and grill, took wine, took smoke, talked a lil descartes nbd

"we will not rest until every man, woman, and child of ukraine has had their throat slit, and the british alehouses serve their blood as a warm and uncarbonated ale. if you do not wish this with all your heart then you can never play for england, never. never."

This is more like it imo:

The first cap came against Ukraine in 2000 when Gerrard was not quite the worldly, streetwise operator we see now. "I'd travelled down in the same car as Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman," he recalls. "I'd told them how carefully I'd packed my bag. My mum had done my undies, ironed all my socks. I went back to my hotel room after training and everything was in the bath, with the water running." Gerrard had turned 20 the day before the match. "Happy birthday soft-arse" was written in foam on the mirrors.

that's the stuff

When Adams and Shearer are going round doing the chest-beating, "ARE YOU F****** READY?" thing, and they reach Fowler and McManaman - what happens?

lols, slaps, tears, tender lovemaking, england

That kind of behind the scenes stuff fascinates me. It sounds pretty fake when you're watching it but i guess it must have some effect?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjXO308_mKM

I cannot even conceive of being that guy. I bet John Terry even gees his kids up that way before the school run.

it's a totally different thing with rugby, half the aim is to physically intimidate and overpower the opposition, and every second involves a full on physical confrontation.

have you seen England play football?

back of the net

not since venables, no.

This is making me realise that there'd've been somebody pulling that shit in the trenches at the Somme. An experience I'd thought couldn't have been any worse.

"He put himself on the line for England. He’s someone you want to sit beside in the trenches."

"There is no doubt that he has been a warrior of a footballer, lion-hearted, patriotic and ever prepared to risk injury for the cause. You’d want him beside you in the trenches but maybe not in your home."

"someone I’d want with me in the trenches. He’s a winner and would always put his head where it hurts and lead his country with passion."

"in the trenches"+"john terry"
About 80,400 results (0.39 seconds)

When contemplating your imminent death, caught on barbed wire and suffocating in thick mud, you'd want to spend your last few minutes pretending you really want it to someone you don't like.

Zlatan delivers.

More evidence that he can't do it against top opposition

Haha

That was actually a really good goal.

Zlatan puts clown shoes on Shawcross.

Hat trick. Beautiful.

He is a god.

lol

Joe Hart has been crap all night.

osman's been lovely

!!!!!

oh yes

Fucking hell

:D

off he trots, not particularly giving a shit

Haven't enjoyed a friendly so much for ages. OMG.

Damn, stream died and I missed that one. Still, quite the hattrick.

And is this how Sweden are going to roll from now on?

You've gotta see the 4th IK!

Just caught a replay, lol. And lol at all of centurion Stevie's questions being about Zlatan!

http://i.imgur.com/ASuiv.png

And I guess that's the end of the Zlatan debate

never

My word that's astonishing

the problem with not watching England friendlies is that once every 200 matches something worth seeing happens

(just saw the proper angle)

finest human of his generation

just seen it. flukey.

this one?

http://i.minus.com/i7UuKja2NuIbQ.gif

yeah, coulda gone anywhere

As with most balls that are struck with the foot, yes.

Do you think he meant it?

coach always said to put it on goal and good things would happen

of course that was ice hockey

that's genuinely one of the best goals of all time

i bet if you watch all of sweden's friendlies he has done that 99 times before one finally went in

done it when it mattered tho

in the 91st min when already winning a meaningless friendly against crappy opposition

To be fair to the lad, how often can the opportunity possibly arise?

This is both true and also a kinda stupid thing to say

Hodgson - Ibrahimovic being kept on cost us a result.

still doesn't top trevor sinclair for me.

joe hart tho, love seeing him fail.

actually does get better on repeated viewings, in terms of the technique.

tho still not better than john barnes v blackburn, obviously.

ibrahimovic is a pile of shit, cowardly flash waster who never performs when it matters and is labelled "unorthodox" cos he can't play basic football. most overrated player i can think of.

― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Friday, October 7, 2011 11:12 PM (1 year ago)

these crucial goals against england in a friendly have vindicated you, as has his rise to the pinnacle of european football with paris saint germain.

it were good but nothing beats tricky trev's

i actually do think trev's was better, just the timing involved and the power, and the fact he had to beat a keeper. not to play down that goal tonight, it was amazing.

yeah well it's not like you've been posting about his enviable serie a, ligue 1 or even la liga record when he has been doing well

dude has been at the top level of european fitba for 9 seasons but like drogba has really reached another level in his 30s

I wouldn't really compare the two. It's the improvised nature of Zlatan's that makes it so special

nice goal but no goalkeeper so sinclair vs qpr was better, as was rivaldo v valencia, ronaldinho v villareal and one or two others
a lot better than twp vs citeh tho

the fact that there's no keeper is the whole point

oh wow science

this wasn't 'improvised', it was a pretty obvious option to take for a player who has the technique to execute

'improvised' might apply to the ronaldinho goal vs chelsea in 2004/5

lobbing a keeper who's foolishly rushed out of goal is one of the best sights in football. Combine that with the speed of thought and athleticism required to execute the shot and that's what makes it one of the best goals ever. So yeah, science

yes, it was so obvious

the more i watch it, the more ludicrous hart's behaviour seems. surely that header is for the defender to attempt?

lol oh god u were serious with best goalz ever

If you disregard the occasion, it is one of the best goals ever

yeah well that's why maradona v england is 10x better than messi v getafe, but even abstracted from context it's not THAT amazing

taison v whoever the other day was more technically difficult

i mean we should be able to appreciate zlatan applying a sublime fourth goal coup de grace to hart and shawx without elevating it to the pantheon

There's plenty of room in my personal pantheon. This goal goes on the "holy shit, i've never seen anyone do that before" plinth

It's amazing cos I've never seen anyone score that exact goal before. Taison goal has been done many a time whether it's 'technically' more difficult or whatever.

ha xp

clearly we need to get more stupid rushing goalkeepers like hart and pyatov and this will become a more regular occurence

are you joking? Stupid rushing goalkeepers are practical at epidemic proportions.

practically

Remember when Neuer tried this for Schalke v Inter, connected cleanly and headed the ball past halfway, and still saw it volleyed over his head by Stankovic? Love that goal.

yeah that was a great goal

oh yes, about 1 min into the match iirc

I have to correct myself, it wasn't quite to midfield. Clearly I haven't watched it enough recently.

0:25, yes!

i mean yeah this is awesome but just not near BEST EVER

id guess a high proportion of these sort of freakish goals occur in the first or last minutes of games, before an equilibrium is found and when the game degenerates into ramdomness

did you actually watch the game tho? id guess that if you did it would explain the ~unexpectedness~ not really applying to those who had already seen it described

kuyty on a mission (pandemic) wrote this on thread Taking advantage of Young Boys: Champions League & Europa League 2010/11 on board I Love Football on Apr 6, 2011

Schalke line up had 3 or 4 19 year olds in it and they still pwnd Inter. Guess that team does need rebuilding after all. Nice to see Raul being Raul. Schalke have been desperate this season, still bottom 1/3 in Bundesliga I think, but when he can be bothered Farfan is a heck of a player.

Recorded both games last night and decided to watch first ten mins of Inter/Schalke before I left for work at 2am this morning, my loud cry of "HOLY FUCK!" when Stankovic scored after 25 secs may lead to recriminations when the rest of my household arrives home from work later. But if ever a goal was worthy of the term it was that one.

Actually i've just watched it again and from the angle behind the goal you can clearly see that he's shinned it. Oh well

Stupid rushing goalkeepers are practical at epidemic proportions.

― pandemic, Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:31 PM (19 minutes ago)

this is probably true yeah

goalkeepers now are supposed to be reasonably athletic and competent at normal fitba skills

you'd never have seen neville southall trying to execute a diving headed clearance outside of his own area

LITMANEN WHOOHOO LITMANEN WOOHOOO. You fools! :) He's a god, Ajax immediatly improved a 100% with all his clever passes and forcing his team mates to play one-touch footie. Suddenly even our problem child Ibrahimovic is connecting and scoring goals too.

Real Madrid. Even as a fan I was sort of shocked by the cold efficiency with which they killed off Roma. Cold but always with a sense of beauty of course. The last 10 minutes reminded me a lot of the way Ajax around 1972 would freeze games just by passing into infinity.

― Omar, Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:54 PM (10 years ago)

Zlatan has scored more bewildering and unlikely goals than that one. Shame I didn't watch tonight. He seems to be doing v. well in France too. I guess being a lazy and arrogant bugger won't see him change much in his 30s.

with lg on this one, and you'll never convince me. he's a level above mido but nothing more

didn't he get in fights with mido when they were at ajax

you would fuckin assume so

Mido 0.23 goals / game in top 5 leagues, Ibra 0.57 and ever rising, I guess that's "a level."

you can prove anything with stats, you specifically i mean

Speaking of their time together at Dutch club Ajax between 2001 and 2003, Ibrahimovic, who now plays for AC Milan in Italy, said: “Mido, my friend, publicly declared that he wanted to be sold. Not especially tactical, in all honesty, he wasn't exactly a diplomat, he was like me but even worse.

“Later, when he had been on the bench against Eindhoven, he came into the changing room and called us all lousy.”

Ibrahimovic said the pair argued before the row turned physical.

“He grabbed a pair of scissors which were lying on a bench there and threw them at me. It was completely mad, to be honest.

“The scissors swooshed past my head, straight into the locker room wall and hit with a crack and, of course, I stood up and gave him a punch, a bang.

“But after ten minutes we went out, arm in arm, and a long time later I found out that our team manager had saved those scissors as a memory, kind of like something to show to the children, that this was the one that Zlatan almost got in his face.”

Dutch club Ajax

Fools. The rule is: if you watch the clip and you can't see where the goal is coming from, it goes in the pantheon.

It's amazing cos I've never seen anyone score that exact goal before.

^ This

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2010/sep/10/the-joy-of-six-overhead-scissor-kicks

god i hate this fucking feature. no trevor sinclair, of course.

Aw c'mon, Joy of Six is the best.

i can't stand the way they purposely leave out the obvious choice, it's so indie. plus i reckon they just google to find the most obscure entries.

no hugo sanchez no credibility

the ilm of footballing lists

has this been mentioned yet?

http://www.wsc.co.uk/wsc-daily/1154-november-2012/9168-zlatan-ibrahimovic-s-uncompromising-book

it's either that or tulisa's book for christmas

"I'm not violent, but if I were Guardiola I would have been frightened."

"If we don't succeed in being No1, I'd be more than happy to go into the play-offs," he said. "The important thing is we get one of those two positions. The group we are in was quite underestimated but that is often the case."

There's not a word here that isn't true, but you can't help wondering whether somebody else might fancy doing this bit of the job. Fortunately nobody's listening to him atm.

he doesn't tickle yr belly for you, how did we ever think he'd work for liverpool or england

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64449000/jpg/_64449673_64449672.jpg

‏@rioferdy5
I'm Gutted I had to pull out of england squad, but it was the right decision for my intricate pre-planned programme.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64634000/jpg/_64634352_alex_ferguson_pa.jpg

I think it's more down to Rio being so fragile that he's unwilling to risk his last chance at an FA Cup medal.

If you can't beat them, look like them

nice kit, doesn't belong on a England team

Why do England fans sing No Surrender?

"The song - which seems linked to Northern Irish unionist or loyalist politics..."

Get away!

On the surface of it, expressing historic resentment towards an organisation that killed civilians and soldiers in the UK could hardly be construed as a breach of section five of the Public Order Act. Or indeed "offensive" in any meaningful sense of the word.

hmmm

LOL BBC

!!

it's interesting how england football fans invented this "no surrender" phrase.

they started it miss

I'm kind of amazed at that piece, I don't think the writer means any harm but surely they're walking into a total firestorm with that sentence which just jumps off the page.

reads like concern trolling to me

This article is the biggest load of shit ever. Outrage, letting the nation down - I can't even pick a quote, I'd have to quote the whole thing. Looks like we're back to business as usual.

One of his most recent pronouncements on his Twitter feed was to tell some critic: “bore of u mug”.

Uhhh

captaincy outrage is by far the best kind. the only comparable thing i can think of that would be even more pompous and false would be ripping on the selection of a team mascot who hasn't even finished his homework.

The outrage at Cole is almost an afterthought though - he's already frothing with rage just about the choreography.

christ why am i inflicting this gruel on myself even as background noise? pathetic desperation of the football junkie with his fix withdrawn

Find it extremely difficult to articulate the feelings of hopelessness and horror that watching England gives me. There's nothing quite like it

think you just articulated it tbh, very well to boot

watching ireland

been watching world in motion a bit this past week. It's such an aberration

ireland are almost hatefully bad

disappointed in how you're spending your holiday tbh

Well well well. I'd rather Ireland win this tbh

oh yes

hogdson out

trap in?

just in the door from granada i owe the fans nothing

oh look two players trap wouldnt pck for years trap out

iirc the fun starts after ROI open the scoring, right?

likely likely

keeper has some kick on him hai

it's almost as if when I posted 'ireland are almost hatefully bad' england decided that no, they'd show me what hatefully bad really is

that keeper's kick is millwall's tactic fwiw

oh now look what i've done. just gonna shut up

aw the size of him in that shirt ffs

whelan for that lampard goal is some real onejob.jpg shit ffs

what does oxlade-chamberlain do

it's used in catalytic converters iirc

moves into the centre after three games, disappears

imagine mcgeady was english, what a team we might have

delighted to see the lesser spotted tir conaill hai itt btw

christ i hate ray winstone

lol thats roy hodgson u fool

"WHERE YER TOOL?"

*points at rooney, cole, lampard et al*

take yr pick

"Wembley fans recognise an outstanding performer when they see one"

i lolled

Ah, fucking this off. I'd rather watch more of the new AD tbh, and I've not been enjoying that much at all. Watching England = like reading a pulpy Stephen King / Goosebumps tale with the kernel of a fantastic and effective idea for a horror story at its heart; somewhere between a vague yet still completely recognisable sensation of insidious, grasping existential horror that this is actually happening in the world and, idk, the Cuckoo Clock of Doom / Groundhog Day device. And the story's being written by a buffoon who can't do dialogue and keeps using the same plot over and over again. And there's not been a twist for about 10 fucking years.

somewhere, Graham Taylor is absolutely loving the shit out of this match

Danny Mills at Wembley, BBC Radio 5 live
"The game has gone a bit stale and predictable. England need that attacking midfield player to open things up, but this is where they lack the inventiveness of a Jack Wilshere. I suppose the questions is can Wayne Rooney play that role for England?"

You'd be as well asking him to play Hamlet. Does Danny Mills get paid for this?

u lot are seeing this the wrong way, the fa is doing us a terrific favour killing the football bug stone dead for the next couple months

i have a club to do that for me

you and i wish it only worked like that

i've had to force myself to stop arguing with our idiot fans on the Express & Star website the last couple of weeks

i've got my back to the TV and nothing has inclined me to turn my head this half btw

tbph it's taking maximum brain power to stay aware that contrary to appearances i'm not actually watching usa in a world cup group game dead rubber

uh oh better swivel that chair, it's sammon feeding time

david forde looks like a lugubrious motherfucker

22 min ago

Marbella calling

Sent my pregnant wife to bed so i could get some time alone with the footy, probably going to regret it tomorrow though. please tell ronan leonard (8.52) that clonakilty is a town not a pub, he probably means de Barras. Trap out.

Rory, Irish exile in marbella

You're fooling nobody, 'Rory'

this England team
vs
this Ireland team
on
ITV
refereed by
Willie fucking Collum

Really struggling to find anything I like about this, yet I continue to watch.

carcrashtainment

things are effed when you find yourself missing Crouchy

England used always to have one unrepresentative loose cannon player who they couldn't accommodate, who's that guy now?

Big Andy?

A worthy heir to Hodd & Le Tiss

It's Rickie Lambert

lol in half an hour ITV are showing highlights of the game they just showed

thanks 4 the heads up

Really struggling to find anything I like about this, yet I continue to watch.

No surrender to boredom

if you switch it off the terriblists have won

Talking of terrible, I was driven to put the sound down and listened to a terrible Italian prog album instead

there's no such thing

Believe me there is

When Neymar became a father in August 2011, to Davi Lucca, Ganso was in the delivery room.

oh i've just realized i cd go to the pub for this, more hilarity in public space

big phil joneslari looking like a whacking great joint of gammon out there

can't wait to let out a pent-up olé for when england eventually string two passes together

annnny minute now

liking the orange ball tho

that wouldve been the crappest bergkamp goal ever

It's hard to know where the shirt ends and Jones begins

Oliver Holt ‏@OllieHolt22 22m
Lovely pictures of the crowd at the Maracana. Simple observation but there always seems to be joy on the faces of Brazil fans

jagielka jones and milner at the maracana is basically a hate crime

Got any choice gifs of that crowd?

think Brasil wd've been better off practising against cones tbh

Hulk is the Brazilian Rooney, only not as good

10 quid says Baines has shat himself

kin ell this is excruciating

can luiz just cunt one in and then the ref abandons the game

lmao "ball for rooney... just couldnt quite bring it under his spell"

mic-ing of the England bench is the best thing about this

nice of phil neal and lawrie mcmenemy to show up tbh

just waiting for the theo gets nutmegged by a 10 yard backheel gif

Wanted to kill something several times during that.

probably myself, can't recall now

lol at this crowd being England's twelfth man

incredible ten seconds

been coming

better than anything Brazil have done tonight tbf

Chamberlain to do NOTHING OF NOTE WHATSOEVER FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE!

prove me wrong...prove me wrong...

actually been a good substitution from woy even without the goal

damn yo

twp

the hype begins..

can't wait to hear this crowd at the final whistle