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

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surely it is pardew's time? is he can do okay at newcastlol then pretty sure england can absolutely rake everybody under him

Rosie 47 (ken c), Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link

I think we can all agree that Pardew would be a huge fucking disaster, right?

a hoy hoy, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link

Why don't they get Ricky Tomlinson? At least we'd all 'ave a laff'...

Mark G, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link

Havin' laffs was actually forwarded by Neil Warnock as a priamry reason for the FA to give the job to Redknapp - that and his ability to speak, if not quite write, English

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link

Alan Pardew is the new Steve Bruce, he's a limited manager benefiting from an excellent talent scout.

Matt DC, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link

hey guys pardew was joeks it's almost friday!

Rosie 47 (ken c), Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link

Chu for England

the pinefox, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link

it's almost Good Friday

the pinefox, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link

Never mind the new Steve Bruce, England need the old Steve Bruce.

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link

In 1988?

the pinefox, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link

don't really care about international success all that much

i cd care less really and yet

there's something so maddening about the endless misadministration and underachieving celebs and baying jingoism that part of me wd just like to see people of good will create a national football ethos to be proud of, just once. i do, i really do.

Fixed.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link

not really, i wasn't talking about success there and i guess my chagrin is more related to that feeling you get when you've got a knotted string and you feel compelled to untie it - abstract mental tidiness of some sort.

on a strictly pleasurable level the hapless travails of the national side wd take a lot of beating.

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link

or perhaps i'm thinking that a national side i'd want to support wd have to change in many ways, and "success" is the least of those ways

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link

Obviously I used to hate England - but as things are, for a sheer entertainment roller-coaster ride they cannot be beaten. Well maybe by France, there's a national side with everything. Argentina too, that's your triumvirate.

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

Obviously I used to hate England - but as things are, for a sheer entertainment roller-coaster ride they cannot be beaten

can i get this on a tshirt pls

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link

* off-pitch only

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link

Actually, even that's unfair - up there among last night's oh so many lols was Rob Green's howler on a loop on the BBC rolling news.

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

love watching England

Number None, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link

sometimes gruelling

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link

motherfucker is that a famine reference

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link

hear that NN he made a famine reference this is incredible

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

chips on your shoulder?

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

goddamit and the mods all busy too

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

love watching english people who love football convince themselves they don't care about england or hate england, when i have the sinking suspicion their eyes would well with big, st george cross shaped tears if arry won the world cup.

mizzell, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link

They are one of the most boring teams, football wise, in world football

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link

ah yeah

i mean, i sometimes read the real-time updates from the thread during the germany game in the WC

suuuure you guys don't care

suuuuure

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link

Hardly ever play any football worth watching. They're like a good version of Norway.

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link

love watching english people who love football convince themselves they don't care about england or hate england

if you say so

but seriously, i love football more than is healthy and my relationship with the england team is only ever gonna be as complicated as my relationship to the english nation. well, maybe fractionally less complicated.

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link

the english football team changes personnel every 4-7 years tbf

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link

i mean clearly i spend time thinking about "the england football team" but i'm pretty fucking certain i'm not just hanging on for an excuse to paint a red cross on my face and punch the nearest german

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link

and, once again, i love my club...the national team is this weird tragi-comic distraction mainly worshiped by southerners afaict

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link

lol at NV in role of prime apologist

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link

the english football team changes personnel every 4-7 years tbf

Yeah but they don't change much

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link

when, if ever, did you stop caring about the English football team?

Number None, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link

I've never stopped caring, I love watching them lose tbh

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link

lol at NV in role of prime apologist

:D

i think about this shit quite a lot when tournaments roll round - in some sense, from childhood, england is "my" team, but def not my team in the way Wolves is. and the social history and politics of England is fascinating i think. but i am certain there isn't some diehard nationalist lurking away in the middle of me underneath onion-skins of liberal guilt or whatever

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link

England are fun, apart from to watch obv, and I almost always enjoy their exit from a tournament. Although against that I loved loved loved the last Euros and coincidentally England weren't even there. The only enjoyable aspect of England one day winning the World Cup would purely to be to see what the country would be like the next day after everyone (well the 35% of people who vaguely give a shit about football) loses their collective minds.

pandemic, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link

Bit like me and the Scotland rugby team, fuck 'em for the most part (unless they're playing England) (xp)

Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link

can't wait til Ireland meet England in the Euros. Then we'll see the true face of ILF

Number None, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link

posts, flags

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link

when, if ever, did you stop caring about the English football team?

France 2-1 England, June 13, 2004

le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link

harsh, england were p good that match

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, i was feeling the fear that day

Number None, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link

England - Ireland is always a footballing treat tbf

dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link

why can't i find a pic of that little fecker crying at the Landsdowne game?

Number None, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link

harsh, england were p good that match

They spent a good deal of that game defending their lead, unsuccessfully as it turned out. I watched it w/an Irish friend (who was a good deal more pro-England than I was, oddly) and I told him I didn't mind who won, but by the end I was laughing at Englandd and happy for France.

Take no offence Angliski, I laughed at France when Senegal beat them in 2002.

le ralliement du doute et de l'erreur (Michael White), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link

Who the fuck is richard williams and why is his puke festering on the pages of my national newspaper

― Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Thursday, February 9, 2012 9:57 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

glad someone else noticed. i did read it right didn't i?

'if foreign manager had learned more of our language and customs this wouldn't have happened (and england would be a better football team)'

For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (whatever), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link

it was a disgusting and stupid piece, as concentrated in its idiocy as anything i've seen/read outside of fry and warnock on SSN

Dr Frogbius (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHt1-GKwxYY

James Mitchell, Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link

Even by the bonkers standards of NMA TV that was quite something.

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link


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