what could possibly go wrong there
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
the trick is turning them into roaming space-filling diffusions of mercury - when an englishman roams, it tends to be with rhinocerine charges
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah le tiss of the 18 caps was a fucking lumpfoot of the highest order it's troo it's troo
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
you and your kin all know that he is a whopping great silken-toed anomaly
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
first dropped points and it would be off with the luxury player's head, and barry would be grafted back in. cos he grafts, the boy. making basic shit look difficult = grafting in england international midfieldery parlance.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
le tiss, gazza (ok, utilised correctly for a change, but then remember that when this was the case ye were actually pretty fukn good), scholes, ????
who's gonna line up for that 'stick him on the left, e's a good ployer e'll work it out' role?
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
you make a good point, but barry is not an attacking mf so you have strayed off-topic like a gerrard punt
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
prob add j cole, maybe lampard to the end of that list actually. criminally undervalued in successive england teams that needed more honest effort and a little less ball control.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
also, jason wilcox obv
haha am now wondering whether paul merson could have been all that
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's true i'm all sermon and no instruction manual tonight.
tho tbh this is all stemming from your contention that j henderson should be a floating attacking midfielder, so tbh it's all net mfer
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
merse, absolutely.
that is what j henderson was v chelsea, albeit with positional discipline when not in possession
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but what i'm sayin is when have england ever shown beagán píosa grá for such a role, regardless of the availability of suitable candidates
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
hence 'when an englishman roams, it tends' - i speak of a tendency and one that jack wilshere and his merrie men will hopefully challenge. if arsenal's youth setup turns england good i will stop mocking a hoy hoy forever, maybe
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
none of the players i have listed have tended towards rhinocerine- they just weren't picked because of their meandering grazing patterns.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
well, you said they were exceptions!
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
we're going in circles like an aaron lennon sortie
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
nope, i said that gazza was the exception in that he was tolerated in such a role- and england prospered.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
course lennon goes in circles, he's only got one foot
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
beagán píosa grá
wtf is this, you're in an England topic ya bas. not that i'm english.
scholes should be on about 120 caps of being played in the wrong position by now.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 19 November 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
one must search wherever one can for le juste mot imo
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i've prob ordered that wrong innit, lol 20 hours sleep since saturday
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty sure it's le mot juste. though i know this mostly from sideshow bob.
i'm a broken man myself, mostly because i just came from a party with much baffling nudity and headstands.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 19 November 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
god it's never ILTMI when you want it to be.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 19 November 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
no, i'm pretty sure that's tmi
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 02:48 (16 minutes ago)
why are u posting here at 3am then
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
chicken egg
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
FA have been and remain such stupid cunts about thishttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9357918.stm
just make it an every two years thing in June (ideally including Ireland and France or any willing sixth guest), stop overcompliating this
― idgi fridays (blueski), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
A six-team thing could be more fun than the old format - the growth in money/celebrity makes it feel much less like a clash of equals or almost-equals like it once was.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
USA USA USA USA USA
― dan m, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
(as an invitee, of course)
― dan m, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Jon Miquel Toral Harper, the attacking midfielder who will join Arsenal this summer due to a loophole from Barcelona is half English.
An attacking playmaker from Barcelona is half English.
He only left Barc-e-fucking-lona because he wanted to go back to England. Barca wanted him to stay and supposedly be fast-tracked into Barca B.
If England let this guy slide and become a Spanish international, then this national team deserves to lose everything.
(I have no idea whether he is any good or not.)
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 24 February 2011 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Little Johnny Harper, you mean?
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Thursday, 24 February 2011 11:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Jonathan Michael Tony 'arper, yes.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 24 February 2011 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
EBJMTH actually.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 24 February 2011 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.cleansheetsallround.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Jon-Miquel-Toral-Harper-Arsenal.jpg
Like Robert Johnson, only one photo of the kid appears to exist. He hasn't even got his eyes open in it.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 24 February 2011 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
It's Johann Cruyff!!
― Paulo Odd Futre (pandemic), Thursday, 24 February 2011 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
probably safest to call up every Spanish teenager with English eligibility for the Wales game just in case.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 24 February 2011 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i know, right?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 24 February 2011 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
this 'capello handled the terry captaincy thing badly' *thing* is a load of bollocks isn't it? first thing that was reported was that he was meeting with the fa to discuss the possibility of reinstating terry wasn't it? he didn't actually say to the press 'JT's skipper, bad luck rio' did he?
― territory of the magic wand (Chris), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Ideally I'd say he's made an arse of it by making it an issue at all - just give it to the guy with most caps and neutralise the issue. But it clearly does matter to England in a way it doesn't for other countries (why is that, exactly?) so that wouldn't've worked either. He's probably done as best he can - Terry pretty clearly has the strongest personality/most stamina here so is the right choice I guess. If there was a mistake it was ditching him in the first place, but then what choice was there at the time?
I wish it didn't matter though, it's only one more thing to go wrong/give primadonnas an excuse to do something other than their jobs.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
last sentence otm
― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
The media has blown this up in order to undermind Capello, it's so obvious. Simmering resentment between Rio and EBJT might be a problem at international level but I'd be surprised if they play that many more games together. I can see Rio retiring from international football before long to concentrate on avoiding injuries/prolonging his domestic game.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Agree with Ismael. Don't understand why it's such a thing. Just give it to the guy most sure of his place and who doesn't mind having to front up to the press every game. So really Rooney (who I doubt wants it) Ashley Cole, or (my choice) Joe Hart. On that Sky sports journalist show the other day they were all horrified at the idea of a goalie being captain - too far away from the other players, can't communicate with the forwards etc etc. Just bollocks. Spain seem to muddle through with Casillas just about.
― kuyty on a mission (pandemic), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
god knows what the press are gonna moan about when their mate 'arry gets the job.
― territory of the magic wand (Chris), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
apart from the players obviously. i'm sure they'll still be providing the lols.
― territory of the magic wand (Chris), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Just give it to the guy most sure of his place and who doesn't mind having to front up to the press every game
Haha thing is that's probably Terry.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
What about a rolling captaincy where everybody gets a turn except Terry?
― a SB-in' artist that been in the game for a minute (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
― territory of the magic wand (Chris), Tuesday, March 22, 2011 5:11 PM
hopefully he performs as well for england as he's done for us, then he won't have to. media relations are only really a big deal when you're fucking things up in your actual primary job as a football manager.
― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link