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Devastating stuff. What else can you say. We're down. Good thing we didnt need any defenders or anything in January.

Hopeless. Completely hopeless this lot.

He doesnt know how to use his frame to protect the ball. People half his size are stronger on the ball than him. You just cant help but think what a player he could be if he applied himself properly.

Starting to think they ought to go bust after all

Aye the Indians are likely to prepare a horrid track now

Aye 2 chances for Simmons. It was a pretty flat track but chasing 200 down in a semi against home support in so easy task. Top effort.

Wouldnt wish to see any club completely fall apart. You need your villains in football too.

You were saying

FFS Horrible luck for the lad too. Euros and all.

Actually dreamt about us getting a hard fought 0-1 victory last night

Yup, Rafa ought to get a statue if he keeps this lot up. Funnier things have happened, one can hope.

Not mathematically but it does feel like that. The results we've been getting, cant expect us to make up a significant gap in the last few games if we cant beat Sunderland and Norwich. Nervous as hell.

Funny how he doesnt say whether England are a better team with or without him right now. Its not about who deserves what, you've got to play your best in form 11. If he was currently looking better than Vardy or Kane noone would be asking for him to be left out. Either way, good luck, might be another painful tournament if that statement is anything to go by.

England actually have a few decent players this time. They look up for it too. I agree it'd be typical for Hodgson to start Rooney and Walcott and mess things up again. Vardy, Kane, Barkley, Alli. They're hungry and in the form of their lives. Give them a go and you never know what could happen.

True Conventional warfare seems to have morphed into proxy wars and terrorism.

Nope. I take it's worth the watch? What a superb innings from Kohli that. Controlled from start to finish. Cant remember anyone as good in the chase as this guy.

Yeah fine mate. Thanks This world is fucked

Absolutely. What a horrid idea to cut out the associate nations. Its like they dont want the game to grow at all. Bigger mess than FIFA sometimes, the ICC is. Mostly got to do with the bigger countries' boards demanding more share of the money Im sure.

Am I the only one who's seeing broken links?

Yeah fair enough I said after the Paris attacks, the idea behind trying to get into what motivates these people is to get to know your enemy. To work at every possible means of stopping them. Not to understand or agree with whatever they are doing. What they're doing is of course cold blooded cowardly murder. There's no justification whatsoever for it, not even if lets say somehow a single innocent life would satisfy their supposed 'vengeance' against the West. Any half reasonable human being knows that.

I remember that anti war demonstrations before the Iraq invasion were much larger in London than anywhere in the muslim world. I could make a list of things that we would do well to learn from you lot. Not really as simple as evil Islam hating west for me. Though I do agree that some sections see it that way. Which is inaccurate.

Umm no, like I explained to the Fish, I believe there are a host of other factors responsible for terrorism most of which can be attributed to failings of those countries. The discussion started with what Chez believed Europe should now do, not Iraq or Syria or whatever. And I responded with what I believe to be a necessary shift in foreign policy thats required for any other measure to be effective long term. If you are going to put words in my mouth and construe that as being disrespectful to the victims, thats your problem. Like I said before, I have seen 60,000 of my countrymen die since this so called war on terror. I have had family die in terrorist attacks. I do not need you to lecture me on the sensitivity of the issue. And I do not take responsibility for words you are attributing to me. The US and its allies, most notably the UK, have been involved in pretty much every major conflict since WWII. So you should not be surprised if their name comes up in the resulting fall out. It does not mean that everything in those areas was fine and dandy when they did arrive however. There obviously have to be massive failings in the local governments and society generally for it to come to the situation it has in some of these countries. For instance, people here are quite fond of blaming the US for their Afghan war and what has happened in my country as a result of that. Rightly so, but only to an extent. I have always been of the opinion that we only have ourselves to blame for not standing up to the Bush government post 9/11 and getting involved in the mess. Similarly, general lawlessness, poor development and lax control in areas along the Afghan border was going to cause big problems sooner or later. Its not really as simple as pinning all the blame on one party. I did not note that that was the topic of discussion for the time being however.

From ISIS' point of view, its all working out perfectly. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/24/scariest-brussels-reactoin-paranoid-politicians-isis-atrocity-belgium?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Add_to_Facebook [tweet] [/tweet]