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

"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 pathetic desperation of the football junkie with his fix withdrawn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