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

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"