McFaul

Anyone would think Germany were amazing the way people are going on. They'll win fuck all, their club teams win fuck all and that's it. If they get to the final Spain will hump them anyway.

I have no idea. My question was why does a huge portion of the population contribute absolutely fuck all to our footballing potential?

Ah aye, I'm sure they'd much rather be cleaning bogs in McDonalds than being paid £80000 a week to kick a ball about.

Look if we had the same amount of Cathy Burke's as have Pakistani's it would make a difference, it's not the amount of immigrants, it's the type of immigrants. If say 10% of the pop. is Pakistani in 15 years time, basically you're removing 10% of the population base as a football country. Instead of your predictably dour response, why has the vast Asian community in this country never produced a decent footballer?

He's half jock though, he can't even speak Polish and has only been once.

What a wanker.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8402784.stmThird paragraph down.

The Australian cricket and rugby union teams, make all of our players look humble though. Joe Hart is a wanker though, he and Parker get praised the most and they're both overrated.

It's about 15% here. Last year 25% of babies born in the UK were to FOREIGN WOMEN. We have the wrong type of foreigner here though, Pakistan and India has a population of 1.4 billion between them, i.e. 28 times more than England, yet Tyneside has produced far more top footballers. East Asians aren't cut out to be footballers, the racism thing people use that they face in the English footballing systems is a load of bollocks. They're just fuckin shite.

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Its funny how the krauts have cottoned on to cockney rhyming slang and all call him Rolls. "Rolls! Back post Rolls sahn!"

Going back years and years Glenn Hoddle and Beardsley should have 100 caps, but again woefully under valued, and you can go on about Woy's experience abroad, he's a typical English manager with added defensive nouse. We're England though, fuck how other teams play, stick to what we know, high energy pacey football with a sprinkle of skill like we showed in Munich and in 1996, since Sven come we've lost the plot in trying to imitate how others play. We can't do it.

It's 58% here and 48% in Germany and Italy. Does that 10% make that much of a difference? Our most skillful players are woefully misused. I guarantee Joe Cole would have more caps if he was Spanish than he has for us for example.

It's all too easy to say we haven't got any technically gifted players. I bet the average England player in that squad is on £90k a year. You don't need to be Messi to be a proficient footballer, and I don't think that passing the ball controlling it and moving in to space is anything other than the most basic of skills. I'll tell you now Italy are shite. They have Pirlo who is a top talent, and 22 other moderately talented players. In top level international terms they are way off Argentina, Spain and Germany. They're not a great side, but they made us look like a Sunday league team. All of those England players look technically better playing for their clubs. I believe the problem with this team, is we have bottlers who are scared to have the ball, Young being a point in case (when he looks great for Man Utd), and Scott Parker. I've been watching football for 27 years, and no footballer has ever been more overrated and more popular with the press than this fraud. The fact he got writers footballer of the year for West Ham in the season they were RELEGATED sums it all up. The media influence in this country is massive, I'm pretty sure, seeing as though our press seems to be the most famous in the world, that it's also the most influential. No player who has ever played the game has got a bigger rimming than Parker. All you ever hear about him is what a good lad he is, and how he gives 100%. The fact is he's fuckin shit, we saw when he played for Newcastle he's a hugely mediocre player who tries his best, he's too slow on the ball and his distribution is shit. We lost the plot completely because the midfield is shit. You can blame Rooney, Welbeck and Carroll all you like but they can't do anything without service. Milner, Gerrard, Parker, Young. There's one footballer amongst the lot of them. There's one player who wants to pass the ball. Of them there's two who don't want the ball, but will work hard because they're English, and that's the English bulldog spirit run about chase and win tackles and everyone will love you (wanks), and of course the utterly limp Ashley Young. Italy are not great but their midfield could pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other, we couldn't and didn't want to do it. We looked fucked, and that's why we looked like MK Dons playing Chelsea. Says it all that Glenn Johnson contributed more going forward and was more comfortable on the ball than any of the midfield. It's a complete and utter joke that a man as comfortable on the ball as Carrick, a proper continuity man, was overlooked, with him and Wilshere it may have been completely different. Think Woy's weign will be a lot like the Graham Taylor one to be honest but even more boring. We'll go through our group games for the WCQ unbeaten. Boring 0-0's away to Ukraine, home wins, and everyone will think we have a chance in Brazil, we've got no chance while we surrender possession to even average sides like Italy, for 90 minutes. The example of Chelsea playing like this is a shit one, it was the luckiest win in history, you can't consistently win things by soaking up pressure for 90 minutes, and you certainly win no friends. Half the teams in this tournament would've battered us last night, Croatia, Holland, Russia, it would've been embarrassing, I hope Woy has a plan B in terms of the way forward but I doubt it.

Seems like all of this is getting to the ex players too. On twitter Nacho Novo's crack to Celtic fans who were abusing him: "Why uz no go home ya Fenian Bastards still have more history than uz PAEDOS hahahahaha WATP.” Fuck me OB investigating.

There was a toon bar in Santa Ponsa, Mallorca when I was there last, called The Canny Lad. The bloke still had a Keegan haircut from 1984 but his face was more like Mick Jagger if he had 12 e in one go. Funny I've never seen a Sunderland bar, or a Tottenham bar, or any other teams bar if I'm honest, although Celtic claim bars around the world as their's if they sell Guinness. I think they're all suffering obviously because of what's happened since 2009, and it's not getting any better.

Aye the main stand is listed. Best stand in the world imo, certainly the best I've ever physically seen.

Aye our 11 trophies gone forever. It didn't matter so much for Boro in 1986 seeing as they had literally won fuck all, not one trophy or even appearance in a major final. Rangers FC history is over. The new club starts with 0 trophies.

Newcastle United? Nee more than 5 years. We're not Leeds, Forest or Sheff Wed. I'd allow two seasons where we don't go up.

Gary McAllister and Colin Hendry were top class in England but apart from them you're right.

Aye but there's a difference between going in to administration and liqiudation. Loads of clubs have went in to administration, with appointed administrators, and paid off their debts at reduced agreed rates between the administrators and creditors, survived and come out of administration. Most of the time they can do this because they're not as heavily as endowed to the tax man as Rangers are, and private creditors think fuck it, better get something than nothing and don't press bankruptcy charges, whereas with the tax man it's a completely different scenario. Being in administration is one thing, being liquidated is quite another, and that's what has happened to Rangers. They don't technically exist any more. It's Rangers FC 1873-2012. I think everyone knows they'll come back eventually, and no one is saying people will start supporting another club, but Rangers 139 year history is over. It's a new club that will come back. If this happened to Newcastle United, we'd be a new club technically probably Newcastle United AFC, but we wouldn't be the old club, and Rangers are by far the biggest club this has ever happened to. In 1986 Boro stayed in Division 3, nowadays they'd end up in the Northern League Division Two under a new guise.

This is what will happen in my view. Dunfermline will retain their SPL status, and Rangers will be place in the Scotch First Division. Most of their players will leave, but they'll retain a core of promising younguns, which should get up to the SPL after one season no bother. The worrying trend for the SPL is even shite players think they're above it these days. Yesterday KEITH ANDREWS, turned a move to Celtic down, and a few weeks ago Leon Best did the same. These are undoubted SHITE PLAYERS, and they don't want to move to the biggest clubs in Glasgow. I've long held the view Rangers and Celtic are Championship quality, I think the day will come when even they are league one quality.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't more with large signing on fee, as he was a Bosman. Plus he'd have got a signing on fee off the toon. They make you sick. "I have to feed my family", I don't think they'll be surving on crumpets and egg on toast somehow.

Boumsong saying he'll come back to Rangers if they give him shares in newco. He's not been paid for 3 month at PAO, and he said this, "The situation in Greece is bad, we have not been paid for 3 months, I need to feed my family." UN UNBELIEVABLE. Greedy mercenary cunt. I bet he's got £15m in the bank.

That loophole "Clubs must play in England or have their HQ in England." I'm pretty sure that Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham don't have a HQ in England. I don't think this is as ridiculous as it sounds. They may not get back in the SPL, they may play no football, the owners of Bury might say fuck it, we're rich if we accept it, more importantly is the money factor. Newcastle in my view are a bigger club than Rangers with a more loyal large fanbase, but we're definitely similar in that regard, do you think English football authorities would be entirely against another Newcastle United joining? I don't think so. Rangers would make £100m a year in England, it's a lot of money, and this could be the excuse everyone needed to open the door for them.