ITV football coverage: Urge To Kill Rising

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and oh yeah corluka sagna also debatable. i'd go for corluka myself.

so what i'm saying is that, depending on formation, we'd have fabregas, clichy, van persie and maybe vermaelen

and wenger. i would take wenger- that's kinda U&K

forgetting kranjcar, he's a classy & beautiful guy

bale >>> clichy

I think Townsend is right on the majority of those.

Arsh's unwillingness to perform for most of this season has been heart-breaking, frankly, but I wouldn't say Defoe is "better". "More useful" might well have been les mots just tbh.

   gomes
sagna woodgate vermaelen bale
         song
     nasri fabregas
lennon             arshavin    
       van persie

that wd be for a super attacking team
shitty basis for an article tho really

totally replacing song with palacios and nasri with modric in that team fwiw

i'm not claiming bale > clichy at LB tbh, bale still very ropey in defence.

xp 'timely piece' but yeah shitty article i think we're all agreed.

xp nasri for modric for sure

and clichy ISN'T ropey in defence?

Top flight full backs aren't supposed to be able to defend in the 21st century

apparently

sort of shitty that the manchester derby is so poor that i'm scribbling formations comprising of two other also-rans

hahaha nice

clichy's defensive ropiness- twine

bale's defensive ropiness- frayed string

my bad i forgot modric.

          Gomes

Sagna Corluka Verm Clichy

         Song wtf darragh even you have spent the past 6 months saying Palacios has been shit while Song is more important to Arsenal than Cesc these days

     Cesc                 Modric

Nasri                         Arshavin, sure he can annoy but he's still fucking! Arshavin

            van Persie

Subs: Szchzchzhzchzhchy, Gallas, Eboue, THUDD, Krancjar, Theo, Defoe.

Manager: The one who wouldn't get them all arrested for tax dodging and stealing Cassius Clay's pills, he needs 'em more, ya know.

palacios having a shit 6 months is just gonna have to be allowed, tbh. he's still the best defensive midfielder we've had in....years, and tbh i've only been following spurs since 1993 or so, but imo I have to go back at least that far.

i like song. he's not a defensive midfielder! i'm not saying palacios > song in this, but picking an 11 then fabregas is unquestioned, and in the interests of actually balancing a midfield then it's wilson all day.

king, dawson, woodgate and prob bassong all stronger at centre half than corluka- sorry, but sagna dropped.

nasri on right ahead of lennon? nope.

arshavin on left I'll allow, as i will van persie lone striker.

ok, how are negotiations going?

How is Song not a defensive midfielder? I don't get this. Is this because he can also *shock horror* pass the ball?

Also Lennon cannot do this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tx-R5jxpr4

Also Corluka must be a better defender than 2 retired hacks and Dawson. He's just classier than Gallas and Bassong. Plus I'm working on the matter that you need a tall handsome man in defence these days to succeed, also known as the Gerald Pique Principle.

no, it's because he can't tackle and doesn't really sit back.

iirc, retired hacks make cf in your team.

The FA Cup's on ITV now is it? No wonder I haven't been able to find it all weekend. As for your question, all of them are too bland to inspire hatred.

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, January 4, 2009 3:49 PM (1 year ago)

How did I ever think this? SB'ed self.

tbh i think i'd take bendtner&crouch over defoe&pav&keane&broken-ed

tbh wtf

'good w/ his feet' + fabregas a winning combo?

Adrian Chiles to anchor this summer's World Cup coverage, then disappear to the same island Des Lynam went to.

ITV's World Cup coverage will include pundits such as Patrick Vieira and Francois Pienaar joining new anchor Adrian Chiles, a new James Corden show and a "dual screen" link-up with ITV.com.

The broadcaster, which will air 32 live games from the event in high definition for the first time, will field a presenting lineup including Vieira, Marcel Desailly, Kevin Keegan and Edgar Davids.

ITV has also signed Pienaar, who captained South Africa to their Rugby World Cup win in 1995, to join the presenting team for the opening ceremony and the first match between South Africa and Mexico on 11 June.

Lead presenting duties will fall to Chiles, who signed with ITV last month following a rapid exit from the BBC after it emerged that Chris Evans was to replace him on Friday nights on The One Show, with Matt Smith to present some games and highlights programmes.

Not that Matt Smith, surely?

Francois Pienaar

A friggin' Rugby player, fuck right off

Pathetic

tell you what edgar

James Corden's World Cup Live

Just had the shuddering realisation that we are a maximum of four years away from the inevitable James Corden comedy football song.

Unless he dies.

It could happen.

He is fat

Lotta strain on that hilarious roly-poly heart.

Other TV programming will include ... Gazza's Tears - The Night That Changed Football

Imagine what this is going to be like and then imagine watching it with a friend/relative from any other nation on earth with even a remote interest in football

Incidentally BBC3 had a programme on last night called England's Worst Ever Football Team and I'm wondering who got in it. Apart from Phil Neville, which was the bit I saw.

Dipped in out of it. Shit prog of course. Let me see:

Paul Robinson
Warren Barton
Phil Neville
John Terry (capt.)
Keith Curle (!?!?!?)

Carlton Palmer
Neil Hodge

Michael Ricketts
John Fashanu

... couple missing there

should surely have franny jeffers in that XI. Although one appearance one goal is a decent record!

Hold on it wasn't Robinson, it was Peter Bonetti

Oh I saw the bit with Kieron Dyer in it as well. Can't deny he merits his place really.

Kieron Dyer! Joey Barton!

By the way, far worse players played for England in the 70s, they didn't qualify for the World Cup for 12 years after all

Just had the shuddering realisation that we are a maximum of four years away from the inevitable James Corden comedy football song.

Dizzee Rascal and James Corden are reportedly planning to cover a 1980s song as an unofficial World Cup single for this summer's tournament in South Africa.

According to The Sun, the collaboration has been planned by X Factor boss Simon Cowell.

It's gonna be World In Motion with new verses and Corden doing the John Barnes bit, right?

Well anyone can rap, according to Corden

Is 'Neil Webb' Neil Webb or Steve Hodge? If the former, then yes - he was dire. Steve Hodge, however was excellent in Mexico 86 after Robson's injury and Ray Wilkin's suspension.

What's the premise of this team anyway? Is it the worst players per se to have represented England? Or the worst performers in an England shirt?

Either way to have P Neville in there is pretty unfair as he's a decent player and is unfairly remembered for giving away that penalty that stopped us going to Euro-whatever. Bonnetti, was a fine, fine goalkeeper, again unfairly remembered for one bad game in Mexico 70. Carson was as bad vs Croatia.

Bonetti probably was a very good keeper, but that one performance was so significant - you were World Cup holders, 2-0 up against Germany, lost 3-2, and he was to blame for at least two of the goals, and you didn't qualify for another World Cup for 12 years!

Nah P Neville wasn't decent, he just brought comedy fouls wherever he played. Gets away with murder in the tackle, always has done.

Much worse players have played for England than Phil Neville. They didn't have a single good full back, on either flank, throughout most of the 70s, 80s and 90s.