Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
- 29,287
A lot of the comments on here are based on what the commentators say during live games. It’s quite worrying at times.
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[Football] Uefa Nations League
- Thread starter Napper
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A lot of the comments on here are based on what the commentators say during live games. It’s quite worrying at times.
Bwian
Kiss my (_!_)
- Jul 14, 2003
- 15,898
How are we totally different? England managed to capitulate as per usual. Seems like same old same old to me.
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hart's shirt
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They had 14 shots on target. We had 3.
I'd call that outclassed.
But regardless of that, we've just lost another Semi-Final from a winning position.
A wasted opportunity. And not good enough.
Super Steve Earle
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I thought the ref was good. Not like our Premier League prima donnas.
TottonSeagull
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Unfortunately, all I see when I watch an England came is a lot of under achievers that ultimately fail to sides that, on paper, they should beat. Before any games abroad we hear how the English fans need to rip towns apart and embarrass the rest of us!
We need people like you who still believe in England and that is all good but for me and I would imagine a lot of others England games are seldom important and normally very forgettable. If there was no international games I wouldn’t miss them!
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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Wouldn’t say we capitchulated as such. That’s a sensationalist word. We didn’t do that at the WC either. We play some fantastic fast paced football with intricut passing. Some of the okay in the WC was lovely. Here’s the point I’d make to back his up. We beat Panoma 6-1 - and ripped them apart in the first half. England teams of old would have laboured to a 1 or 2 goal unconvincing win. We have exciting young talent coming through, who have won things already at international level. Many players who have won major club trophies now too. Nobody is saying we’re the best team in the world, but a WC semi and Nations League 3rd or 4th (beating Spain away and Croatia at home) makes me think we’ve made progress. Comfortably top 10 on the world now yet weren’t 3, 4, 5 years ago...
Shooting Star
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Now that is the truth. Had a good grip on the game in my opinion and let as much go as possible until the end. VAR delays not his fault.
I thought we were outplayed tonight, and that Stones/Walker had shockers (even before the second Dutch goal, as pointed out by many people’s posts before that moment).
But I did ignore the strangely inaccurate and overly dramatic shite from the normally good Tyler and Neville. We were laughing how they deemed Chilwell’s game over when the Dutch thug sent him crashing to the ground. Clearly a concussion test was going on, which Neville read wrongly with “His eyes are closed, he’s gone”. Later Kane tried to whip his leg around to nick the ball, but slightly caught the man, whereupon Neville said “Kane has lashed out”. Laughable.
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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I wouldn’t believe all you read in the press. England have some morons who act like yobs and idiots after a few beers and lines but not much different from others. The press reporting is often scandalous and the foreign police are often hugely out of order. I’ve seen it first hand and been caught up in it innocently. But ‘failure’ is going to happen for hundreds of countries in the world if not winning a WC means that... one team can win it - I doubt other counties consider themselves failures for not winning it? A semi was an excellent showing, as was our showing in the nations league tourno. That win in Spain was fantastic.
As they were in the CL and Europa League tournaments this season.
Kevin Friend and Martin Atkinson are light years behind.
albionfan37
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That was what happens when you don’t get any support the whole game the back 4 were poor but the midfield did absolutely nothing to help them
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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Agree re the commentary. Even text that to some mates when Neville was over dramatising a slight knock to the head. I don’t think the comms we’re far wrong re the performance. The mistakes were horrendous tonight. But Tyler was right to correct Neville when he said something along the lines of ‘you get that when you play out from the back’ after Stones error. You don’t if you do it better than that.
albionfan37
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If only we could sign some of the refs as easily as we do players
Shooting Star
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Agree, especially about Tyler. I get that he was disappointed as an Englishman that we were losing, but saying that Stones' over-playing at the back sent a bad message to young footballers up and down the country was laughable.
Did agree with much of what Neville said, but a lot as you say was sensationalist.
stewart_weir
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- Mar 19, 2017
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So England are sort of Brighton of World football?
banjo
GOSBTS
Yes.
Farehamseagull
Solly March Fan Club
Tyler was absolutely ridiculous tonight. The criticism of Stones etc was way over the top and he was taking the ‘tournament’ far too seriously for what is really like an international Emirates Cup.
Tyler’s past it anyway these days, needs to retire off to Qatar alongside his old dinosaur colleagues, those uber ***** Keys and Gray.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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So a team of very tired Englishmen lost to a very gifted Dutch team. Oh dear. What a shame. Never mind.
