Mr. Eagles, are you suggesting that Uruguay are being treated by England in a similar manner to the way in which the King of Bithynia treated Caesar?
FPT: Mr. Socrates, if he'd gone west, having survived in Babylon, he would have crushed Rome. By strange coincidence, an uncle (I think) of Pyrrhus (himself Alexander's cousin) called Alexander headed west before his namesake went east. Epirot Alexander sadly enjoyed no more success than Pyrrhus.
Mr. Flightpath, in a recent episode of Farscape the Peacekeeper grunts had similar problems.
Edited extra bit: cheers to Mr. Hayfield for his regular piece.
What a disappointment. If there's one hope that will come out of this terrible World Cup performance, it's that it'll be a shock to the system. The FA are an incompetent inept organisation that have failed to properly develop English talent for decades. It's about time the government stepped in, broke up the old boys' club and put in professional management. Then we might finally get the national youth development fitting for a football league of premiership quality.
That England defence is just not good enough,if hodgson had anything about him,he would have got John Terry to play again and picked Ashley cole against the poor baines.
Come on the Azzurri! A 2 or 3 goal victory against Costa Ricaand it's on for England to go through. Biggest problem is that whilst England need Italy to win 2 games, the Italians don't need to themselves.
I suppose it's a sign of our more relaxed attitude to things that we don't have a single UK team. Most other countries would insist on it: Spain, for example.
That England defence is just not good enough,if hodgson had anything about him,he would have got John Terry to play again and picked Ashley cole against the poor baines.
We were never going to get far this World Cup, it makes sense to play younger players rather than 33 year olds to help develop them for future tournaments.
This isn't Hodgson's fault. It's the FAs for years and years and of poor youth development. We have the second best football league in the world, yet our players coming through are worthy of being about 15th.
I suppose it's a sign of our more relaxed attitude to things that we don't have a single UK team. Most other countries would insist on it: Spain, for example.
No, it's because we get four seats out of five at IFAB. We'd lose three if we played a single team.
That England defence is just not good enough,if hodgson had anything about him,he would have got John Terry to play again and picked Ashley cole against the poor baines.
I don't see how you blame Baines for the poor play by our central defenders. Gerrard sadly gave no lift - just the opposite.
That England defence is just not good enough,if hodgson had anything about him,he would have got John Terry to play again and picked Ashley cole against the poor baines.
We were never going to get far this World Cup, it makes sense to play younger players rather than 33 year olds to help develop them for future tournaments.
This isn't Hodgson's fault. It's the FAs for years and years and of poor youth development. We have the second best football league in the world, yet our players coming through are worthy of being about 15th.
Bollocks,we keep saying we will do something in the future,it is hodgson fault in this world cup,he picked a poor England defenders and his tactics in the first game against Italy which put baines/rooney on the left together caused the Italy goals.
I suppose it's a sign of our more relaxed attitude to things that we don't have a single UK team. Most other countries would insist on it: Spain, for example.
No, it's because we get four seats out of five at IFAB. We'd lose three if we played a single team.
The IFAB doesn't govern FIFA. FIFA do have representatives on the IFAB though.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains four points: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
About as surprising as England's world cup results. I have some sympathy this time for England. They were okay against Italy and not THAT bad tonight. Uruguay took their chances. I hope also those people who slated Liverpool fans for being tough on Hodgson now have some idea why that was.
That England defence is just not good enough,if hodgson had anything about him,he would have got John Terry to play again and picked Ashley cole against the poor baines.
We were never going to get far this World Cup, it makes sense to play younger players rather than 33 year olds to help develop them for future tournaments.
This isn't Hodgson's fault. It's the FAs for years and years and of poor youth development. We have the second best football league in the world, yet our players coming through are worthy of being about 15th.
Bollocks,we keep saying we will do something in the future,it is hodgson fault in this world cup,he picked a poor England defenders and his tactics in the first game against Italy which put baines/rooney on the left together caused the Italy goals.
Oh right, because a couple aging defenders and Danny Welbeck on the left would see us surging to the semi-finals? Of course we keep saying we'll do something in the future, but the problem is we never do, because we never sort out the joke of an organisation that is the FA.
England have been crap for years. At least Hodgson tried to get them playing. Does anyone really care? Club football is what stirs the passions here these days. We all gave up on the national team a long time ago.
England have been crap for years. At least Hodgson tried to get them playing. Does anyone really care? Club football is what stirs the passions here these days. We all gave up on the national team a long time ago.
Of course we care. Some of us are patriots that always want our countrymen to win regardless of the sport. And football is our national sport.
That England defence is just not good enough,if hodgson had anything about him,he would have got John Terry to play again and picked Ashley cole against the poor baines.
I don't see how you blame Baines for the poor play by our central defenders. Gerrard sadly gave no lift - just the opposite.
Baines did play a little bit better tonight,especially in second half but you can blame baines against Italy.
England have been crap for years. At least Hodgson tried to get them playing. Does anyone really care? Club football is what stirs the passions here these days. We all gave up on the national team a long time ago.
And seemingly 90% of the country supports one of six teams.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains four points: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
About as surprising as England's world cup results. I have some sympathy this time for England. They were okay against Italy and not THAT bad tonight. Uruguay took their chances. I hope also those people who slated Liverpool fans for being tough on Hodgson now have some idea why that was.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains four points: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
About as surprising as England's world cup results. I have some sympathy this time for England. They were okay against Italy and not THAT bad tonight. Uruguay took their chances. I hope also those people who slated Liverpool fans for being tough on Hodgson now have some idea why that was.
Defeat is defeat is defeat. Total clear out and total rethink is needed. This is the worst England team for 20 years, or more.
The 1994 team was worse, but entirely because of Graham Taylor. But before that, you'd have to go back to the 70s.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains four points: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
About as surprising as England's world cup results. I have some sympathy this time for England. They were okay against Italy and not THAT bad tonight. Uruguay took their chances. I hope also those people who slated Liverpool fans for being tough on Hodgson now have some idea why that was.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains four points: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
About as surprising as England's world cup results. I have some sympathy this time for England. They were okay against Italy and not THAT bad tonight. Uruguay took their chances. I hope also those people who slated Liverpool fans for being tough on Hodgson now have some idea why that was.
Defeat is defeat is defeat. Total clear out and total rethink is needed. This is the worst England team for 20 years, or more.
The 1994 team was worse, but entirely because of Graham Taylor. But before that, you'd have to go back to the 70s.
There were some very average players for England at that point but I'm not sure Taylor had much choice.
Evening all and at least if England lost Liverpool won. Gerrard made Suarez's 2nd goal beautifully. Pity for England they weren't officially playing for the same team tonight. You English chaps are getting to feel what it is like to be Scottish. We know our football team is shite before they take part in competitions.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains four points: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
About as surprising as England's world cup results. I have some sympathy this time for England. They were okay against Italy and not THAT bad tonight. Uruguay took their chances. I hope also those people who slated Liverpool fans for being tough on Hodgson now have some idea why that was.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains four points: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
About as surprising as England's world cup results. I have some sympathy this time for England. They were okay against Italy and not THAT bad tonight. Uruguay took their chances. I hope also those people who slated Liverpool fans for being tough on Hodgson now have some idea why that was.
Defeat is defeat is defeat. Total clear out and total rethink is needed. This is the worst England team for 20 years, or more.
The 1994 team was worse, but entirely because of Graham Taylor. But before that, you'd have to go back to the 70s.
England aren't a top 8 team. They're top 16 but not top 8. Which is kind of the worst bracket to be in really.
Be interesting to see if this changes the indyref polling.
would think the collecting media wailing and gnashing of teeth with send a few yeswards. now kids will have a choice of uruguay or argentina shirts for future tournaments
That England defence is just not good enough,if hodgson had anything about him,he would have got John Terry to play again and picked Ashley cole against the poor baines.
We were never going to get far this World Cup, it makes sense to play younger players rather than 33 year olds to help develop them for future tournaments.
This isn't Hodgson's fault. It's the FAs for years and years and of poor youth development. We have the second best football league in the world, yet our players coming through are worthy of being about 15th.
Bollocks,we keep saying we will do something in the future,it is hodgson fault in this world cup,he picked a poor England defenders and his tactics in the first game against Italy which put baines/rooney on the left together caused the Italy goals.
Oh right, because a couple aging defenders and Danny Welbeck on the left would see us surging to the semi-finals? Of course we keep saying we'll do something in the future, but the problem is we never do, because we never sort out the joke of an organisation that is the FA.
First thing,hodgson again at fault playing even welbeck in the England team never mind on the left (Thanks for pointing that out) and if Terry/cole played in the first two games,I would bet that England wouldn't have lost both games and giving us a chance of Qualification from group.
England have been crap for years. At least Hodgson tried to get them playing. Does anyone really care? Club football is what stirs the passions here these days. We all gave up on the national team a long time ago.
Of course we care. Some of us are patriots that always want our countrymen to win regardless of the sport. And football is our national sport.
Everyone wanted England to win. But I doubt many people are that bothered by losing. Most expected what has happened. We're not very good. Blame the clubs, not the FA. It's the clubs that do the vast majority of the coaching and which trawl the world for talent rather than focusing on home grown. And that happens because supporters care more about their clubs. If they put country first they would not accept what the clubs do.
I wonder if the English players are being crowded out of the premiership. It's great that we have the most followed league in the works but to the casual observer it seems as if there are tons of foreign players in out league but our players don't really seem to go abroad too often.
Actually, there are a lot of similarities between EdM and Hodgson and the England team and Labour MPs - a mix of has-beens and those wet behind their ears - both looking for a real leader.
England manager Roy Hodgson: "I don't think anyone let me down, the team down, or the country down.
"We conceded two goals, but didn't concede many other chances at all. I thought we had a lot more possession but they stood firm and we couldn't score."
England have been crap for years. At least Hodgson tried to get them playing. Does anyone really care? Club football is what stirs the passions here these days. We all gave up on the national team a long time ago.
Of course we care. Some of us are patriots that always want our countrymen to win regardless of the sport. And football is our national sport.
Everyone wanted England to win. But I doubt many people are that bothered by losing. Most expected what has happened. We're not very good. Blame the clubs, not the FA. It's the clubs that do the vast majority of the coaching and which trawl the world for talent rather than focusing on home grown. And that happens because supporters care more about their clubs. If they put country first they would not accept what the clubs do.
What's notable is that the World Cup still sorts the wheat from the chaff. Great players like Suarez, Robben, Van Persie, and Pirlo exalt in its intensity.
I wonder if the English players are being crowded out of the premiership. It's great that we have the most followed league in the works but to the casual observer it seems as if there are tons of foreign players in out league but our players don't really seem to go abroad too often.
The problem your countrymen face is that while the English Premiership is widely regarded as the best domestic league in the world, the reason it is so is because most of its stars like Suarez are not English but foreigners, drawn by the obscene wage levels paid.
The other night I heard some of the commentators starting the usual crap about English players being expected to play too many league matches etc always forgetting that most of the players in the leading teams at the World Cup e.g. RVP happen to play in precisely the same league matches.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains four points: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
About as surprising as England's world cup results. I have some sympathy this time for England. They were okay against Italy and not THAT bad tonight. Uruguay took their chances. I hope also those people who slated Liverpool fans for being tough on Hodgson now have some idea why that was.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains four points: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
About as surprising as England's world cup results. I have some sympathy this time for England. They were okay against Italy and not THAT bad tonight. Uruguay took their chances. I hope also those people who slated Liverpool fans for being tough on Hodgson now have some idea why that was.
Defeat is defeat is defeat. Total clear out and total rethink is needed. This is the worst England team for 20 years, or more.
The 1994 team was worse, but entirely because of Graham Taylor. But before that, you'd have to go back to the 70s.
If you want to grasp at YouGov polls and believe Ed will win, good luck. He is competing with Michael Foot to be the least successful Labour leader of the past 4 decades.
England never had a chance. They(the players) are seriously overpaid(for what they achieve) and the Premier League is stuffed with foreign players. We may have the best league, but we will never get the best team.
There was a brilliant Rooney joke on Mock the Week.. He will never live that incident down.
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Mr. Eagles, are you suggesting that Uruguay are being treated by England in a similar manner to the way in which the King of Bithynia treated Caesar?
FPT: Mr. Socrates, if he'd gone west, having survived in Babylon, he would have crushed Rome. By strange coincidence, an uncle (I think) of Pyrrhus (himself Alexander's cousin) called Alexander headed west before his namesake went east. Epirot Alexander sadly enjoyed no more success than Pyrrhus.
Mr. Flightpath, in a recent episode of Farscape the Peacekeeper grunts had similar problems.
Edited extra bit: cheers to Mr. Hayfield for his regular piece.
He's playing with one fecking knee.
BREAKING: Luis Suarez has been handed a 10 match ban by the FA.
Not sure that we can beat CR.
England as good as World Champions.
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YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead remains four points: CON 33%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%
george Best v Pele
This isn't Hodgson's fault. It's the FAs for years and years and of poor youth development. We have the second best football league in the world, yet our players coming through are worthy of being about 15th.
Mark Lawrenson - Does he bet on football ?
That's not fair, Cammy is doing his best with what he has.....oh, you meant the football?
Both?
England have been crap for years. At least Hodgson tried to get them playing. Does anyone really care? Club football is what stirs the passions here these days. We all gave up on the national team a long time ago.
Another argument for #Brexit: Number of World Cup Titles #England won since UK joined the #EU #WorldCup2014
And yes,Gerrard has had a poor world cup.
Be interesting to see if this changes the indyref polling.
So come on a UKIP inspired trip and forget your troubles and woes.
http://www.ukipdaily.com/ukip-london-region-trip-strasbourg-parliament/#.U6NSeZRdWoc
"We conceded two goals, but didn't concede many other chances at all. I thought we had a lot more possession but they stood firm and we couldn't score."
The man is deluded.
FPT. Apologies. 10th June
Ed is crap is PM Less than 47 weeks to go
The other night I heard some of the commentators starting the usual crap about English players being expected to play too many league matches etc always forgetting that most of the players in the leading teams at the World Cup e.g. RVP happen to play in precisely the same league matches.
Mainly because he can't write.
Its about time we had a GB football team. We'd get Gareth Bale and really piss off the SNP. Double win.
There was a brilliant Rooney joke on Mock the Week.. He will never live that incident down.