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Spain are of course the big favourites as they have been the most consistent team at the tournament so far. It will all depend if we are able to up our game again. A performance like against Portugal is needed. The pace of Torres could be a problem, hopefully Mertesacker rediscovers his normal form. Another performance like against Turkey and it will be an easy contest.

Individually we're head and shoulders better than the krauts, it's a crying shame that ginger bastard was ever given control of the England team. The two centre halfs are astonishingly shite. The fundamental thing in football is passing the ball, both of them reminded me of Stephen Caldwell in this aspect. The Krauts are underrated and Engurlad are vastly overrated. To say that Engurland is head and shoulders above them in any respect is complete trash. How many of the German players would get in an England 11 ? Only Ballack, Klose, Podolski and Lahm would have any chance. The rest are sub standard. As poor as we were yesterday, but that's utter nonsense. Sorry. I should have used the word average. Ok, it's just nonsense then.

Didn't Modric deny it that he was ever in Newcastle personally?

Hilarious stuff tbh. Demonstrates that the biggest problem of English football is probably the head up the own arse mentality. Too many people (players included) believe the SKY-generated hype. It also shows that players shouldn't be judged on single performances to assess their strengths and weaknesses. For example to say that Lahm is piss poor defensively is ok based on last night's game, but totally wide of the mark when you judge his normal performances. Same for Mertesacker who is normally absolutely faultless and imho one of the most talented defenders in football at the moment. Parky couldn't spot a talented player when getting beaten with one though...

Individually we're head and shoulders better than the krauts, it's a crying shame that ginger bastard was ever given control of the England team. The two centre halfs are astonishingly shite. The fundamental thing in football is passing the ball, both of them reminded me of Stephen Caldwell in this aspect. The Krauts are underrated and Engurlad are vastly overrated. To say that Engurland is head and shoulders above them in any respect is complete trash. How many of the German players would get in an England 11 ? Only Ballack, Klose, Podolski and Lahm would have any chance. The rest are sub standard. As poor as we were yesterday, but that's utter nonsense.

Individually we're head and shoulders better than the krauts, it's a crying shame that ginger bastard was ever given control of the England team. The two centre halfs are astonishingly shite. The fundamental thing in football is passing the ball, both of them reminded me of Stephen Caldwell in this aspect. I've never seen Mertesacker that poor. He's normally far, far better than yesterday - with especially an impressive passing ability. I am still lost about yesterday's performance. It wasn't about the Turks playing that well, but how a team can go into a semi-final and be that poor is beyond me. Based on this performance even the players from Andorra are head an shoulders better than us...

Damn, this was awful. We were the far worse team for about 2/3 of the match and still luckily won it. That's German luck tbh. Lahm did everything wrong and right. I'd kill the Turckish 'keeper personally tbh...

Bastids.

That's occurred to me too. I'm surprised we don't sign more Scandi's bearing in mind the relative proximity. Something I've been saying for ages, but I find it quite remarkable that players from certain leagues seem more likely to adapt to English football than others. The vast majority of them are poor quality though. Who's world class from Scandanavia, many would argue "Zlatan" is, I'm yet to see why. Who else? Poulsen? Poor mans Eric Roy he looks to me. There's no one we could sign who's Scandanavian who would make me think "wow". Well, Poulsen would be a much better and reliable player than Emre imho. It's not always about them having to be "world class" (how many of those players can Newcastle attract from any league at the moment?), but offering good value for money and making the team better, like Agger or Laursen for example. But my initial point was indeed not about Scandanavians paricularly, but more a general one - with especially Germany in mind. I don't rate many players from the German league, but I find it significant that hardly any player coming from the German league to English league has floppped. Even the likes of Santa Cruz, who was distinctly average here, or Samba, who was totally unknown. They are also not "world class" but doing pretty fine jobs for their teams.

That's occurred to me too. I'm surprised we don't sign more Scandi's bearing in mind the relative proximity. Something I've been saying for ages, but I find it quite remarkable that players from certain leagues seem more likely to adapt to English football than others.

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He's just another Torres in disguise tbh.

Fat Sam is the new Chuck Norris tbh.

http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?...=19510&st=0 I'd rather say, that the majority thought he would be a good signing depending on the price. Fishing for another bite?

This "lack of end product" malarky sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Perfect players are very rare. I wouldn't mind someone like Lennon who might disappoint with his end product often enough, but who can make up for it with other attributes. He'll generally unsettle defences with his pace and win freekicks with his dribblings that only can get stopped by foul.

Schweinsteiger's lass

I thought he was a modern version of Oz, Neville etc.......you mean to say he's a real German !!!!! Nice to see Scolari upholding the FACT that even the top managers get it wrong sometimes, but don't expect the cockney bullshiter in Fleet Street publlishig such things as he's taking over at Chelsea soon

Is it a wrong word? disgustful=disgusting, isn't it? Anyway, try to type in a foreign language after drinking 8 litres of beer.

If you look closely a German player treads on his foot as he runs past. Make no mistake. It was a foul. But if you saw the slow motion then he went down, looked up to the referee and just then started to pretend it to be like it was a really serious foul. I won't dispute the yellow card, which was totally deserved, because it was a tactial foul, but the way Ronaldo acted made me wanting some player to delibaretly kick his head... I'm not talking about the foul, after it (Freidrich) trod on his foot as he ran past. That does hurt. Normally a red if the ref sees it. I'm smiling a little Ise. A German moaning about theatrics? Ballack is probably as good at feigning as any of them. Ballack goes down far too easily, I don't deny it and I don't like it. When Ronaldo started to cry there was no player near him anymore. It was just deliberately looking up to the ref and trying to get an opposition player into mess. It's distgustful (and it's always distgustful, even when Ballack does it as well).

If you look closely a German player treads on his foot as he runs past. Make no mistake. It was a foul. But if you saw the slow motion then he went down, looked up to the referee and just then started to pretend it to be like it was a really serious foul. I won't dispute the yellow card, which was totally deserved, because it was a tactial foul, but the way Ronaldo acted made me wanting some player to delibaretly kick his head...

Don't know what people are about 'keepers today. I think apart from Lehmann's mini theadralics in the dying minutes he was realy doing ok today. Germany played really well for the first 30 minutes when they pushed Portugal in their own half. To concede the goals was rather stupid. Both times mistakes by Mertesacker who normally has an excellant positioning. Germany's third was a bit lucky because of Ballack's push. But just for Ronaldo's antics just after half time, when he went down, then looked at the referee before to cry, they deserved to lose. I don't wish any player an injury, but I do not wish Ronaldo an injury-free career. F***ing wanker he is.

Poor man's Peter Crouch according to Eamon Dunphy. But to be fair his ball control for the penalty was sublime and the chance just afterwards with his back to goal well taken.

He's a nationalistic grade A twat with no sense for sportsmanship tbh. He's a good manager though. Fantastic in motivating players and letting his team play some decent football. I am not sure if he was a success for any other team but Croatia. Croatia totally deserved it. They were the better team for nearly the whole 90 minutes. It's telling when Lehmann is your best player. Frings and Ballack got bossed in midfield and losing far too many balls. Set pieces were crap as well. Only with Schweinsteiger came a bit of creativity. It probably wasn't a red card, but if you push a player you are always in trouble. There are too many players who are not in form. Without a major increase from nearly everybody it will even be difficult against Austria...

Yakin should have made it 2-0 in the first half. 'keeper saved the equalizer (all starting from an awful dive of Altintop). Plus I hate honking parades...

I agree.