Tragic Football Stories - Let us Kick Around the misshapen Jabulani that is English football right here

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.

idk, like is capello shit? Sven?

Shouting and pointing skills! How could I forget? The main attribute of any great captain.

emoting skills

emote control?

Also, taking what football people say in interviews seriously is madness, judging their quality on what they say in interviews even more so.

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.

idk, like is capello shit? Sven?

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.

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

the sturridge tap in was an excellent move tbf

xxp

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.

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

Capello is pretty obviously not right for international management.

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.

tournament management maybe, but he qualifies like a MF

Would cost Russia $25m to sack him so they might have to stick with him for the foreseeable.

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.

pigshit thick

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

“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

got visions of a Roy Hodgson version of Fighting Round the World now

chiellini wingplay merks phil jones

England
01 Hart
02 Clyne (Walker - 45' )
05 Smalling (Carrick - 44' )
06 Jagielka
03 Gibbs (Bertrand - 88' )
04 Henderson (Mason - 74' )
08 Jones
11 Delph (Townsend - 70' )
10 Rooney
07 Walcott (Barkley - 55' )
09 Kane

didnt see any of the game but fucking christ this xi is some 1983 dogshit

how bout if I told u delph was best

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

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

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?

"navas taking sterling's place, another example of a foreigner playing hurting english football" is what i thought i heard glenn hoddle just say

Dinho berbatov √√√√√
<3

that's an almost indiscreet number of legends in one post, deems

Jack whitehall √

Youd think damian lewis could at least act like a footballer

On evidence whitehall is a better winger than son

Daniel Busch ‏@dan_bu 9h
Leipzig manager Hasenhüttl says Burke has great potential, but his "harddrive is completely empty", regarding how to work against the ball

lol

This match

Only watched the last 20 minutes but lol

Fed up with Pyrrhic victories, I want a victory victory.

didn't watch it at all but lol

Zero ability up front but tell you what moving it from the back these guys look alright

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

VIDEO REPLAY PENALTY DRAMA

truly this is the greatest evolution of the game

Tackle looks good to me tbh

Pen stands and is saved

furious that danny mills cunt racism goes unpunished

Just biased towards ingerland m8

Commentators anointing the team with ninety seconds to go cunts will not be learnt

Onomah looks imperious set against his peers

Calvert-Lewin total shite

Tomori really does look an absolute walking disaster, almost scored his second and third og of the tournament today and just did his best to break his own keepers leg in the last minute of a wc final

what's this? John Terry has made his way onto the pitch wearing full kit

A goal of excellence