Hodgson may or may not have reasons for what he said about not changing anything - most likely he means that given what he knew at any given point he stands by the decisions he made, I don't suppose he means "oh if I'd known how the game was going to go I wouldn't have told Glen Johnson to get in the way of that cross."
Also, taking what football people say in interviews seriously is madness, judging their quality on what they say in interviews even more so.
― Tim, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
i hear that a lot - "a lack of interest in ball skills"
the ball is the only piece of equipment in the fucking game, what other skills are there
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
tackling iirc
― a curious shade of pale (onimo), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
also running and jumping
and positional awareness
xpost Running up and down skills, falling over skills, being too honest skills, refereee intimidation skills. Oh and positional skills but we're less interested in those than we are in ball skills, so ignore those for now.
― Tim, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
idk, like is capello shit? Sven?
― leave the web boys alone (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
Shouting and pointing skills! How could I forget? The main attribute of any great captain.
― Tim, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
emoting skills
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
emote control?
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
It's evidenced in his team selection too. A couple of weaving but unproductive runs from Sterling and a Sturridge tap in convinced him he'd picked such a good team to play Italy he shouldn't change a single player for Uruguay.
― a curious shade of pale (onimo), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
Capello seemed unable for the most part to get tournament performances out of decent England players. Sven I think did mostly ok with what was at his disposal.
There's a whole load of expectation management issues in how a manager's success is judged. I personally think losing in the last 8-16 is a reasonable expectation for a nation of England's size and talent pool. Losing in the groups is a failure.
― a curious shade of pale (onimo), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
to me Hodgson didn't look fully comfortable adopting the style of play needed to get the most out of his better players i.e. the younger forwards, so he ended up with a kind of bad faith mish-mash that didn't work particularly in any area.
plus saddled with the usual bottlers/showboaters etc
― clockpuncher (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
the sturridge tap in was an excellent move tbf
xxp
― pandemic, Thursday, 26 June 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28122235
The senior players sense it if you doubt yourself and, if they sense a weakness, their natural instinct is to see if you can push a player down now and again to see if they can come back up.
There was not a chance of that happening with Pogba. I remember Paul Scholes kicking the living daylights out of him in every single training session, every day.
But he earned our respect by never moaning, never shouting and never making a fuss.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 July 2014 11:49 (nine years ago) link
But he earned our respect by never moaning, never shouting and never making a fuss......and getting the fuck out and away to Juventus soon as he possibly could
― pandemic, Thursday, 3 July 2014 11:54 (nine years ago) link
Capello is pretty obviously not right for international management.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
I mean I pity him for having to take over a load of flakes like England and Russia but the sort of characters who work at club level don't always work at international level.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:02 (nine years ago) link
tournament management maybe, but he qualifies like a MF
― pandemic, Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:08 (nine years ago) link
Would cost Russia $25m to sack him so they might have to stick with him for the foreseeable.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:09 (nine years ago) link
Owen on 2002 -That is how they beat England. It wasn’t much of a game and we certainly did not play to our potential, but it was Rivaldo’s brilliance turning the tie Brazil’s way before Ronaldinho’s fluke winner.
Love the way England players never deviate from this assertion that the goal was lucky.
― pandemic, Friday, 4 July 2014 09:26 (nine years ago) link
pigshit thick
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Friday, 4 July 2014 09:48 (nine years ago) link
imagine living in a world where despite having the talent to beat every team at the highest level you seem to be undone by flukes over and over and over again
England = Sisyphus
― Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 4 July 2014 10:54 (nine years ago) link
“Embarrassing to see dinosaur Hodgson questioning the fitness regime of the forward-thinking manager Brendan Rodgers. Roy Hodgson’s incompetence must be frustrating for educated managers like Brendan Rodgers who travelled the world.”
so this is what dj martian's up to
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
got visions of a Roy Hodgson version of Fighting Round the World now
― Chimp Arsons, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
chiellini wingplay merks phil jones
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
England01 Hart02 Clyne (Walker - 45' )05 Smalling (Carrick - 44' )06 Jagielka03 Gibbs (Bertrand - 88' )04 Henderson (Mason - 74' )08 Jones11 Delph (Townsend - 70' )10 Rooney07 Walcott (Barkley - 55' )09 Kane
didnt see any of the game but fucking christ this xi is some 1983 dogshit
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
how bout if I told u delph was best
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
i'd say you didn't see any of it then, because delph was fucking rank and couldn't pass the ball, england looked a damn sight better when he came off. his replacement scored the goal even
carrick england's motm
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
rly what was the point of any of this, lol at the media even halfheartedly calling it an experimental side
assessing jack cork should have been the first thing on hodgson's friendly agenda imo
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 09:17 (nine years ago) link
Is this better, or have a few better coaches at clubs just under top-class with a mandate to string a few English lads into a coherent system made this look better, is there a difference?
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
"navas taking sterling's place, another example of a foreigner playing hurting english football" is what i thought i heard glenn hoddle just say
― r|t|c, Sunday, 22 May 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
Dinho berbatov √√√√√<3
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 June 2016 20:19 (eight years ago) link
that's an almost indiscreet number of legends in one post, deems
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 5 June 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
Jack whitehall √
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 June 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
Youd think damian lewis could at least act like a footballer
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 June 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
On evidence whitehall is a better winger than son
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 June 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
Daniel Busch @dan_bu 9hLeipzig manager Hasenhüttl says Burke has great potential, but his "harddrive is completely empty", regarding how to work against the ball
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 September 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 10 June 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
This match
― del esdichado (NickB), Saturday, 10 June 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Only watched the last 20 minutes but lol
― del esdichado (NickB), Saturday, 10 June 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
Fed up with Pyrrhic victories, I want a victory victory.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 June 2017 18:44 (seven years ago) link
didn't watch it at all but lol
― There's got to be a Corbyn after (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 June 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
Zero ability up front but tell you what moving it from the back these guys look alright
― May o God help us (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 June 2017 10:35 (seven years ago) link
This is a cracking game.
venezuela just brought on the injured sateldo and he is so far beyond everything else on the pitch it's actually amusing
― May o God help us (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 June 2017 11:13 (seven years ago) link
VIDEO REPLAY PENALTY DRAMA
truly this is the greatest evolution of the game
― May o God help us (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 June 2017 11:29 (seven years ago) link
Tackle looks good to me tbh
Pen stands and is saved
― May o God help us (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 June 2017 11:30 (seven years ago) link
furious that danny mills cunt racism goes unpunished
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 June 2017 11:32 (seven years ago) link
Just biased towards ingerland m8
― May o God help us (darraghmac), Sunday, 11 June 2017 11:45 (seven years ago) link
Commentators anointing the team with ninety seconds to go cunts will not be learnt