England V Croatia on telly Wednesday?

pierrot · Post by **pierrot** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:12 pm

Good. Hopefully England will use this dose of reality wisely and start to work on its weak points, and there is a lot to work on.

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Salopian · Post by **Salopian** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:35 pm

pierrot wrote:Good. Hopefully England will use this dose of reality wisely and start to work on its weak points, and there is a lot to work on.

Absolutely.

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:44 pm

sinikettu wrote:
otyikondo wrote:Well, you can't have Roy Hodgson...

There'll be war.

Well who will replace him?..He has gone..."The FA brought a swift end to McClaren's 18-month reign as England's head coach at an emergency meeting."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 100393.stm

Given the choice will Roy chose England or Ireland?
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Roy+Ho ... 5231998916

Anyone who's coached Under-12s in junior leagues should do well - would understand the mindset of England fans: "Oi, 'e's a wog. Boo 'im."

But personally I like this one:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gal ... 17,00.html

Allardyce looks like a heart-attack waiting to happen, and given the material he'd be working with, it would arguably be negligent manslaughter to appoint him.

Salopian · Post by **Salopian** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:49 pm

Capello has apparently said he'd be interested...how about the 'Special One'?

Fat Sam? Great. 4-5-1 with Kevin Davies upfront as a 'battering ram'. But at least he got the long ball thing working, unlike lastnight.

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:55 pm

What was up with the Wembley pitch, by the way? It looked like a potato field. I didn't watch for long enough to get anything off the commentary about it, as I was watching the Por-Fin game on Canal+, but there were clear markings from American football on it. Did that NFL pre-season match screw up the turf? There were bits that looked like White Hart Lane used to look in April....

Salopian · Post by **Salopian** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:31 pm

Yes, spend £700 gazillion on a stadium and get a quagmire of pitch. At least Beckham felt at home with those extra markings...

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:41 pm

Salopian wrote:Yes, spend £700 gazillion on a stadium and get a quagmire of pitch. At least Beckham felt at home with those extra markings...

Spotted on the BBC boards:

BREAKING NEWS - MASSIVE DEATH TOLL NORTH OF THE BORDER

TRIBUTES are being paid to Scotland this morning after the entire country laughed itself to death.

The alarm was first raised at around 10pm last night as thousands of phone calls and text messages went unanswered.

Small groups of volunteers from Berwick-Upon-Tweed and Carlisle ventured north just after midnight only to find houses full of dead people gathered around still blaring television sets.

By dawn, as RAF helicopters flew over deserted city streets, it was clear that the whole country had suffered a catastrophic abdominal rupture.

Wayne Hayes, a special constable from Northumberland, said: "We went into one house in Dunbar and found three men sitting on the sofa with huge smiles on their faces, still holding cans of 70 shilling. They seemed to be at peace."

He added: "In a house near Edinburgh we found a man face down on the living room floor with his trousers and pants round his knees."

"It seems he may have been showing his bare buttocks to the television when he keeled over."

Roy Hobbs, a civil engineer from Northampton, said: "I got a call from my friend Ian in Stirling at about 9.50pm. He was already laughing when I answered the phone, but after about 25 minutes of the most vigorous and uncontrollable hilarity, everything suddenly went very quiet."

Moving tributes are already being placed along the Scotland-England border with many mourners opting to leave a simple bag of chips or a deep fried bunch of flowers.

Brings out the best in some people, anyway...

john_smullen · Post by **john_smullen** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:45 pm

pierrot wrote:Good. Hopefully England will use this dose of reality wisely and start to work on its weak points, and there is a lot to work on.

Why should this hiccup be the making of England we have learnt anything from all the other cock ups we have had since 1966.

littlefrank · Post by **littlefrank** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:55 pm

£2½ million pay off for McClaren, so how much would he have got for doing his job?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007 ... television

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:22 pm

What I REALLY don't get is all this whingeing about the terrible blow to the economy that it will entail. It's Chicken Little stuff.

Sure, Sports Direct will be hurting, and Umbros will have a bad second quarter, and the pubs will lose out, and maybe plasma-TV sales will dip, and travel agents will lose that side of the business, but it is not as if the money is being taken OUT of the UK economy, is it? I mean, foreigners were not rushing in in droves to buy facsimile Wazza shirts or prop up the bar at the Ferret and Trouser-Leg for the duration of the tournament, were they?

English consumers will continue to consume, unless they keep their money in a sock or under the bed (I'm referring to Northern Rock customers, of course), and presumably they will find OTHER things to spend their wad on. Maybe they'll read a book (nah....) or go to the cinema, and maybe some of the Ingerland fans will stay at home and keep the money in the British economy rather than pissing it up against a wall in Zürich or Vienna.

If something scheduled to happen in England had been CANCELLED - like a major sports tournament - I could understand the alarm, but this makes no sense to me.

Nightmare scenario headlines sell rags, I guess. And anything that makes McLaren look even worse and even more culpable is grist to the mill. Pretty soon he'll be responsible for Iraq, global warming, and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

littlefrank · Post by **littlefrank** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:34 pm

'What I REALLY don't get is all this whingeing about the terrible blow to the economy that it will entail'

Not whinging about the economy, firms just ripping off the punters so no sympathy there, no I just can't get my head around the fact that somebody gets paid £2½ million quid for what, shouting at footballers from the sidelines? So how much would he have got if they'd won? £2½ million seems too much..

I only found out he'd got £2½ million from that link so that's the reason I posted it.

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:59 pm

otyikondo wrote:What I REALLY don't get is all this whingeing about the terrible blow to the economy that it will entail. It's Chicken Little stuff.

.....

English consumers will continue to consume,

Well Sky News interviewed some twat who insisted that there is real evidence that PRODUCTIVITY increases in factories and offices as England progresses through these championships, due to the (spin alert) feel-good factor.

Yeah, maybe some of them will stay in England and spend their holiday money on beer and fish 'n' chips in Weston-super-mare or Blackpool instead of flying off to Austria and Germany (and thereby also contributing to global warming) Win-win situation if you ask me.

And maybe a few will support team GB at the Beijing Olympics (isn't that next year?)... get them all wearing "Go Paula Go" T-shirts

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:47 pm

littlefrank wrote:'What I REALLY don't get is all this whingeing about the terrible blow to the economy that it will entail'

Not whinging about the economy, firms just ripping off the punters so no sympathy there, no I just can't get my head around the fact that somebody gets paid £2½ million quid for what, shouting at footballers from the sidelines? So how much would he have got if they'd won? £2½ million seems too much..

I only found out he'd got £2½ million from that link so that's the reason I posted it.

I wasn't knocking you, Frank. I quite agree, but the way they are selling it, the losses are much greater than the couple of million they wasted on SCS (Second-Choice Steve). That was my beef. As for McLaren, it seems that once one reaches a certain level, contracts come with golden parachutes as standard. Maybe he did it on purpose, so's he can play golf in comfort this summer instead of watching them lose.

littlefrank · Post by **littlefrank** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:43 am

'I wasn't knocking you, Frank.'

Ok I was very tired yesterday and the stitches from my small op are driving me to distraction.

junot · Post by **junot** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:27 pm

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Fat Sam? Great. 4-5-1 with Kevin Davies upfront as a 'battering ram'. But at least he got the long ball thing working, unlike lastnight.[/quote]

Fat Sam's old team had a good day today, and to round off a wonderful afternoon Fergy was sent to the stands

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