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

Kazakhstan should be 1-0 up.

The Wembley pitch England team is still as big and slow as its always been.

http://seoulcurry.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/bob-the-builder.jpg

that's more like it!

LOL@KAZAKHSTAN

I really think England can go on and win now, if they put 10 men behind the ball.

WHO THE FUCK IS BORAT????

all v reminiscent of Albania game 7 years ago

England "putting Kazakhstan in their place" there, ITV cheerfully inform us

Even compared to the BBC commentators Tyldesly and Pleat are full of jingoistic crap.

you'd think they were Englishmen!

I know it's a vain hope, but a little bit of objectivity is not too much to ask for, surely.

why, do we get objectivity with the cricket?

i wonder how few places below England a country could be in the rankings before 'putting X in their place' wouldn't come up (it comes in the context of goal-less first half tho)

Game's not on Scottish TV, btw, so jingoism not as annoying as it is on the BBC (am watching via the magicks of Sky)

x-post Relative to football, cricket is objective, although that's still not saying much.

Jingoism is fair enough I reckon, it's just that Pleat is a complete fucking arsehole whatever he says.

BBC is always less jingoistic than ITV! Tho Motty most at fault for jingoism at the Beeb.

Flukey second goal!

Motty most at fault for jingoism at the Beeb

Only cos Barry "Look at that disgusting cheating foreigner, they don't like it up 'em the fuzzy wuzzies you know" Davies has been retired.

What a load of complete horseshit.

What, Barry Davies or England?

steady on pinefox, they may yet scramble a third xp bah

LOL

Everybody knows you can't just sit deep and hang on against quality opposition like Kazakhstan.

i've just accepted England will always struggle and perform poorly against the lower-ranked teams

four words too many there.

England fans may be wishing Capello had fallen through a TRAPP door.

BORE-AT

ROO ARE YA

a goal using feet...just imagine it!

Nice to see Rooney representing for male pattern baldness sufferers.

and ferrety beard wearers

he's gonna look like john mccririck in 20 years

I see Wales are sticking it to the Liechtensteiners.

FOUR-AT

I DON'T RECALL THIS GAME IN MUNICH YOU MENTION CLIVE....I DON'T RECALL IT.

same scoreline and everything!

i mean sure it was 0-0 in Munich until the last minute but still

hope it stays 0-0 in Kiev

a game you may just remember ... seven years ago ... two years after that magical night in Barcelona ... and four years before that amazing night of drama in Istanbul

That was the worst 5-1 victory I have ever seen. Stevie Me is a serial international bottler and should never play in an England shirt ever again.

However, Shaun Wright-Phillips shoulder-barging a Kazakhstan player off the ball = classic to the power of 100.

not sure how much of that was to do with SWP tho

if it had been 1 or 2-0 at half-time maybe it probably wouldn't be seen as a bad performance. i'd take a showing like that in Belarus if it meant a win by just one goal (as long as i can just watch the highlights).

It's good the national team can still lift us at this time of international turmoil. Although it may be moot if we get thrown out of the competition due to military action in Iceland.

It's not like you're us, and IN THE SAME GROUP AS THEM.

Shame this isn't an actual league, "you're going down with your bankers" has a nice ring to it.

fucking steven gerrard lost the ball attempting a stupid hollywood pass i don't know how many times, he is a waste of fucking space

Wayne Rooney is now almost as good as he was in 2004.

steven gerrard no longer a waste of space altho LOL haha

Before anyone jumps on me with a 'yeah its only Belarus' I'm counting recent Man United performances as well. Lets just ride the good times until that inevitable New Year career-ruining injury by Some Loser From Stoke.

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45112000/jpg/_45112489_rooney466_282pa.jpg

http://ns25552.ovh.net/~nofatcli/daddy/cometodaddy.jpg

He was a bit thinner when he was chatting up the old grannies eh?

http://ronanfitzgerald.net/random%20stuff/COMETOROON.jpg

Stevie G - my tasty hero again