Come anticipate Fabio Capello's two years as England manager with me

Meanwhile Bosnia are beating Estonia 7-0. Lol.

i for one am enjoying plucky underdogs England taking globe-straddling Croatia to task, in their own back yard no less.

Over/under on "Absolutely Fabio" headlines tomorrow?

notice: apparently there is a free highlights package on a setanta channel at 10.45 - including the england game

I am not going to accept this is that good until Heskey starts doing the goal putt celebration.

Also fuck dodgy internet streams for choosing tonight to fuck up all at once.

I shudder at the thought of how vulgar the gutter press will be in reporting this tomorrow.

Franjo Tuđman , Paul Salopek, Janko Bobetko, Mate Boban, Ante Starčević, Željko Mavrović, Marija Petkovićve...Ivo Sanader, can you hear me? Your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!

Lol Lampard.

I shudder at the thought of how vulgar the gutter press will be in reporting this tomorrow.

― DavidM, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 21:29 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink

"this" "tomorrow"

not even Luxembourg monumentous victory in Switzerland can overshadow this

IT'S COMING HOME
IT'S COMING HOME

looking forward to the 0-0 draw against Kazakhstan in October.

re headlines i'm plumping for FAB FOUR

Man what with this and the British donk beating the American donk I might just die of excitement.

I'm voting THEO PA-THREE-TIS

More happier about British donk winning than this shower, tbh.

an england performance to rank alongside:

Holland 1 England 4 - euro 1996

germany 1 england 5 - september 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/1515667.stm

ENGLAND ARE GONNA WIN THE WORLD CUP! AND THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE! AND THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE! AND WILL SUCCESSFULLY OPERATE THE HADRON MACHINE!

Sun rolling with TRIO WALCOTT

Setanta appear to be not showing the England highlights after all.

I just watched them on Setanta Ireland. THEO LOLCOTT!

Steven McManus is a tit, Gary Caldwell is a god, James McFadden is a shite penalty taker and, er, Kirk Broadfoot is an international footballer. It's good to be back.

Caldwell was impressive tonight.

hey this isn't the Burley thread (joeks)

Now, come on, I did mention England!

also, I read that as (jocks)

tartan army had a huge banner for http://www.noteamgb.com/

I has revived the Scottish football thread. Carry on, England.

Is it wrong that I laughed at Joe Cole and his bleedy head falling over? Then rewound it and laughed some more?

Youse were pish first half against Andorra, btw.

Yeah, we know

I'm actually really happy England won. Some of the utter shite coming from Bilic this week was sickening, especially for a guy who had a crap major tournament, "England are the same but we are better and better, we have the best players possible in every position". He teed up an English trouncing more than anyone. Bet he wishes the West Ham job was on the table now.

have to settle for newcastle, won't he?

So yeah England bought the ref right?

England played really well for one competitive game under Steve McClaren as well. Let's not get carried away.

(It may well be proveable that England play better with Heskey upfront, though)

Glans Christian Andersen

10/10 username, would roffle again.

not even Luxembourg monumentous victory in Switzerland can overshadow this

Oh, I don't know about that. Then there's Bosnia-Herzegovina's 7-0 walloping of Estonia.

France beat Serbia, last night.

It's a minefield in the Balkans right now.

Shame (xp)

DOMENECH DIAMOND: Plucky French hold off Serbian menace

Email I sent yesterday lunchtime:

I reckon we've got three points in the bag for tonight.

Croatia have got Eduardo and Krancjar injured, Luka Modric has been awful for Tottenham so far this season, and Niko Kovac is 37 - which is REALLY old (apologies, Marcus) - and tried to retire after the Euros.

In the two games we lost, we had no Ashley Cole, and in one of them, no Wayne Bridge either. We had no Rooney in the home game and played Crouch as a lone striker.
We played Scott Parker and Carrick in midfield in the away game, with Gary Neville as an attacking wing-back.
Just looking at the teams, it's no wonder we lost.

We'll see who plays tonight, but it'll be much more balanced. The only big player missing is Gerrard, and since we don't seem to have an effective way to play him, maybe that's no loss. Hope he plays Johnson instead of Wes Brown at RB, and that he plays Walcott and Joe Cole behind (and wide of) Rooney as a front three. Lets get at them!

Just wanted to crow, although I was wrong about the formation. I just can't bring myself to think that playing Heskey is a good idea.

Anyway, I thought it was pretty obvious we were going to win, and it's typical media reaction to say "no-one saw that coming" when they've been completely ignoring the bleeding obvious for ages, because it didn't fit the "narrative". We were alright against Andorra, and Croatia are clearly nowhere near the fifth best team in the world and have been wildly overachieving.

Yeah nobody looks good against someone like Andorra anyway.

I hate the glut of "Joe Cole must start" articles in the last week too, I mean most people I know and anyone who watches England has been saying that for ages. He's clearly one of those players who just performs and scores at international level, like Scholes used to.

Paul Scholes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Joe Cole

I haven't enough >'s

Cole looks International class cos he's got the diving and rolling around on the floor in imaginary agony down.

Scholes is definitely better, but Cole is v good for England, he has always been good for them.

Yeah nobody looks good against someone like Andorra anyway.

Saturday, 06 September 2008
FIFA World Cup European Qualifying

Liechtenstein 0-6 Germany
Malta 0-4 Portugal

not even Luxembourg monumentous victory in Switzerland can overshadow this

Azerbaijan 0 Liechtenstein 0

Portugal 2 Denmark 3

England played really well for one competitive game under Steve McClaren as well.

not away from home against the top seed tho

Then there's Bosnia-Herzegovina's 7-0 walloping of Estonia

not a big surprise at all

xpost

I don't know, but I doubt whether those teams would play QUITE as negatively as Andorra, who had no desire to even attempt to score a lucky goal on the break or from a set piece. I've never seen anything like it. And they were then proud of their performance? They should be thrown out of football. It was despicable.

Saturday, 06 September 2008
FIFA World Cup European Qualifying

Liechtenstein 0-6 Germany
Malta 0-4 Portugal

jesus...andorra are worse than either of those too and in any case, a win is a win against a team that sets out for a 0-0.

if you really want to believe England are shit, even after last night's performance, then go ahead! I'm not even English, you'd swear half of you look forward to the post-knockout anti-prem rants...

Croatia did score 13 goals in 2 games against Andorra in the last campaign so no excuse for England really - but will be interesting to see if they can do the same this time (probably)

Garda is correct re Cole