RIO! RIIIIO!
One of the best center backs in the world.
― Suedey 2, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Rob Green, you got merked.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
lol twice
― Suedey 2, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe they just dont like Rob Green
― Suedey 2, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
WILL'EM DEFOE
― unban dictionary (blueski), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
The idea of Carlton Cole and James Milner looking totally comfortable on the international stage would have been hilarious three years ago. Carlton Cole is a thing. Carlton Cole is better at Didier Drogba than Didier Drogba.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
It may have been hilarious one year ago to be fair. It also might just have been a friendly to be fair.
I was wondering what wing demon the fuck that was laying on Defoe's 2nd (a friend and I watched most of the 2nd half in a pub after a cricket match). Then, the glimpse of an impossibly jutted chin, set-back eyes, expression of grim determination...it could only be he
lololol "Carlton Cole is a thing"...to use Pro Evo parlance, he did Post Player better than almost anyone else I've seen today
― cockles (country matters), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
It's just a friendly. Luckily for both Carlton Cole and James Milner both are in a position with half-decent clubs where there'll be able to play pretty much every game this season, fitness permitting. Be interesting to see how they turn out, Cole especially.
Overjoyed at Defoe goals obviously, good to be going into the season with an in-form striker for once.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
His first goal had such a ridiculously small margin of error, but it was just three touches and in.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Cole's miss was my favorite thing in the game.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
What's a post player?
Defoe's first was classy.
― fruity gonzalo (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
very dissapointing performance from our boys. ;) Englad actually seemed a much better team. this cannot be true. (seemed to me Capello played with a lot better players in 2nd half, he should stick with those)
― Ludo, Thursday, 13 August 2009 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Post Player in Pro Evo is a skill some strikers have; generally big target men who knock it down or hold it up for little quick dudes to run onto and score.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 13 August 2009 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I was actually really impressed with Cole's first touch and control, there was one shot he made with just a couple of swift touches that was great. I'd kind of assumed he was a bit of a joke before but hey you never know...
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 August 2009 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah Matt, that's the miss I'm talking about.
"Post player" a basketball term, too. I wonder if Pro Evo borrowed it from that? There are a lot of basketball roles that also exist in soccer IMO.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 August 2009 09:13 (fourteen years ago) link
5. Bring in Glen Jonno Johnson at right back, he would have been up against Kranjcar tonite
lol
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 August 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
johnson was fucking things up literally from the first touch
Pretty much all of the established big players looked like they were playing at walking pace and making wilfully bad passes in protest at having to play.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Thursday, 13 August 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Rooney and SWP more in their traditional no I'm the best player let me do it I can skin all of them me modes.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Thursday, 13 August 2009 11:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Wayne Bridge has pulled out of the squad - his position is "untenable and potentially divisive" apparently.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 February 2010 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Says who? He himself, or Capello? It would be quite funny if it was JT mouthing off.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
wow.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
England's defence at the World Cup is going to be embarassing if things continue this way. A seemingly-permanently-injured Ferdinand, an off-form Terry, a shit Glen Johnson and a just-back-from-injury Ashley Cole/some other loser. Oh also lol English goalkeeping.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hibbert, dawson, johnson, baines
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Terry must now carry with him the additional burden of knowing his own actions have resulted in someone he used to class as a close friend missing the biggest tournament any professional can be involved in.
yes this is bound to weigh heavily on the famously introspective and considerate john terry.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Calling Ryan Shawcross (xp)
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh i'd love to see a capello led defence of hart; hibbert, dann, johnson, baines/warnock - not exactly milan 91 but for 10 games or whatever? it could be great. or yeah, shawcross xpost
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
warnock is easily england class.
dawson is a liability, though. would fuck you at first opportunity under a high pressure situation.
most of the players here could easily perform defensive duties as a unit for capello, as long as the press/pundits didn't start to get on his back about the (secondary) consideration of their 'footballing' abilities.
lol spurs, basically
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
any chance of lol woodgate being not-dead?
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
never a chance of him being back match fit- sorry england, because he is class.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Phil Jagielka plays tonight, btw- is he any better than Dawson as a player that people see every now and again and think 'he's not as bad as I thought'
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Whither LOLean Lescott?
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
let's just get psycho back out there as left back.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 25 February 2010 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Lescott was an obvious choice this time last year, but tbh I'd take king ahead of him at this stage
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 February 2010 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Chelsea v Man City is gonna be fun this weekend, isn't it?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 February 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
terry to 'do' bridge rather than the more just reverse imo
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 February 2010 13:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Never even occurred to me - I was thinking out of this weekend's four games that that was the one I could safely miss.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 February 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Jagielka was the shit, I just forgot he is still breathing.
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 25 February 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
So yeah, thinking about the way England have been set up under Capello, and the possibility of going to the World Cup with Leighton Baines and Steven Warnock, neither of whom are the sort to bomb forward at every opportunity.
Surely the rationale of playing Gerrard on the left was it kept him out of Lampard's way and Ashley Cole attacking down the left flank allowed him to drift further infield/maraud forward etc. That's got to be under threat with a more defensive left-back... good for James Milner or Joe Cole I'd say.
Then again the way things are going this may just entail switching Gerrard to the right.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
or just not play him? he's not at his best form or late non?
I for one am incredibly glad we won't have two attacking minded full backs considering the state of lol glen johnson. In fact I wouldn't be averse to picking Brown, especially if we were to come up against a Di Maria or Ribery or Ronaldinho...
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I had forgotten all about Ribery 'til I inadvertently flicked on espn at my parents' at the weekend, just as he was running straight at some terrified defenders like he was in that pink panther advert. Love him all over again now.
Much as I hate Ashley, he's far too good for England to easily get by without him this summer.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Its fine, every world cup there is a 'oh noes will player x make it back in time? oh well he'll only miss the first match' bit going on
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
good luck usa
― caek, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
And then they come back and play like shit until we go out.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but this time it'll be an adulterers fault we go out...
oh wait...
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
petty thug replaces philanderer as skippa
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.talksport.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/ts_magazine_big_picture/england_future.jpg
― mizzell, Monday, 31 January 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
The future of England has lots of people looking at angles.
― Inspector Anthony Slade, Monday, 31 January 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
a remarkable amount of odd eyebrow-action on the go there.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 31 January 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link