Steve McLaren RIP

2 out of 3 ain't bad xp

What about if the evil foreigners taking over your game were Dutch ladies with strap-ons?

As opposed to Dutch rapists?

We'd break out the goalkeepers!

The Violation Of Stefan Postma was perpetrated by an Englishwoman.

I knew you'd have ALL the facts about that incident, Louis.

It's all on that other thread. ILX is knowledge.

The Violatio Of Stefan Postma was perpetrated by a Englishwoma

And to think he didn't get the joke!

I got it. Oh, I got it all right.

uh blatter ain't german? my bad. where's he from?

Shepton Mallett

guy has so many opinions on English football he must be from here really

"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? Sepp Blatter."

... Rory Bremner has my permission to steal that for a sketch

doesn't say much for either of you, really....

I know, I should charge him a fee in future

but even reigning champions greece who knocked out elite teams such as spain and france etc. have a foreign manager.

england aren't plucky though.

Need to take tips from plucky bravehearts Scotland

england: too big to be "plucky", too small to be "elite".

Scotland would never be unpatriotic enough to have a foreign manager

england: too big to be "plucky", too small to be "elite".

Big on self-importance? Small on achievement?

yup, sounds about right.

big on steak pies, small on exercise

Do we have any Spanish ILXors? They should really post here in a kinda "Four Yorkshiremen" stylee when people moan about the England team.

At least they're in Euro 2008!

"you english dornt knor y' born. lose at horm t' Croatia? we'd luv to lose at horm t' Russia. plastic pitch, we'd luv t' play ont plastic pitch. best we can do is t' donkeys backside. etc etc. Ole"

that the kind of thing Dom?

"Eeez not rat, eeez Reyes"

yeah i don't think any Spaniards feel they are really worse off than England fans

Don't they care more about Real and Barca anyway? A bit like Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd fans? And Celtic fans. And Rangers fans.

and irish fans.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44339000/jpg/_44339262_cappearce203.jpg

They look like a history and PE teacher exchanging notes before parents' evening

who's the bloke signing the car lot to Ian Beale?

=it's never ceases to amaze me how many of the worst footballing organisations have senile corrupt germans as their heads.

I'm struggling to think of one. No German has ever run FIFA; Gerhard Aigner was Gen Sec of UEFA (not President) and was defo about 8/10 for my money. I'm sure corrupt germans have at some stage run the German FA, but most sensible commentators acknowledge the DFB is the best run and most on-the-ball in Europe.

Carry on.

sorry, i meant governments

and texans

http://www.mr-agreeable.net/story.lasso?section=Match%20Reports&id=135

timely bump

years ahead of his england time, but without the necessary pr skills to make us realise it

If downing were playing this world cup England wouldn't have lost.

Steve McLaren RIPE

RT @runofplay When your game-changing weapon is Emile Heskey, you are spiritually looking comical beneath a giant umbrella. about 19 hours ago via web

Surprised no-one's tried to revive the '4-4-2' / '4-5-1' memes we all used to love so much back when

fallen soldier formations imo

Yeah but '4-4-2' used to be 'OTM' and '4-5-1' used to be 'lol hapless losers' and now everyone's jumped on the bandwagon that it's the other way round and if only we'd been playing 4-5-1 maybe we wouldn't have been so shit. It would be a semiotic meme nightmare.

know your history children, know your history

in all seriousness, SPOTY?

noodle vague, take it away

https://www.facebook.com/carly.t.catherine/videos/10157049589060322/

this is amazing!

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