PaddockLad
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Joe Hart saved all eight shots Italy got on target, but England only retained possession on 15 of his 29 kicks (52%). That said, only Wayne Rooney and Ashley Young completed more passes which finished in the attacking third.
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Sam Wallace from the Independant is claiming that Hart had the most completed passes (45)...fuck me, thats depressing if true...
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My mate here at work says that according to his twitter Joe Hart had the highest number of completed passes for an England player last night....in a perverse way I hope thats true
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The English league is "the best in the world" not because of Englishmen IMO, the "British" player is not anywhere near as good as Johny foreigner and hasn't been (with the odd singular exception) for decades.
Watch any run of the mill game from just about any other major league and the difference in technical ability of the average player is HUGE compared to the Brit players in our top league. I seriously don't know how you fix that.
Teach children to play football, not to "knock it up to the big lad" at the age of 9, enocuraged by ignorant bellowing parents on the touchline, desperate for their little treasures to win something. That would be a start.
Can't see how anyone can be too disappointed this morning. Played off the park by a very average Italy side. Its just not in our nation's footballing culture to play posession football, despite what the individuals are taught at their clubs. It all seems to go out the window when they put on an England shirt.
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England haven't beaten a major footballing nation in the knock out phase anywhere other than Wembley....Belgium in 1990 don't count as they hardly count as a major footballing nation,neither do Cameroon, neither of them were going to win it that year,even if they'd put England out. If they do it tonight they'll be putting out a nation who have won 4 world cups and have been runners up twice. There is an understanding in Italian football culture about tournament football that is usually nowhere to be seen when England arrive at summer tournaments themselves. Italy look average so far but they didn't look any better in 2006 when they won the WC. Putting them out removes a potential winner. That for me is huge.
I've not seen too much in Englands games that has suggested this time is going to be any different to the countless other times we've messed it up at this stage but if we deny Pirlo space and time then theyve got little else tbh. Getting to the semis will be a major over acheivement in view of our history but its do-able iyam.
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Talking of flounces, I take it that lot who appeared from nutz went back there without telling anyone?...and where have all those mad scandies gone?....
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I thought this was the landscape gardener who wouldn't pay his debts....turns out its the internet pyschopath one.....welcome back anyway
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Is there a fritz playing called Schoeller or something? Has the Fenham Eusebio found a highly unlikely granny in Nuremburg?...
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That book again
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aye. But they won't cease to exist. Which will piss some idealistic people off it would seem.
I thnk all Toonpack has said this morning is that the newco have a mountain to climb before they can even think about putting a team on the pitch, which he says sort of rules out next season. Long term you're almost certainly correct, but a season (or two?) sat on their hands then entry to division 3 of the scottish league is a just punishment, even though it will be self inflicted. The newco being admitted straight back into any league stinks. Its no punishment whatsover, even at a lower level.
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of course, but I'm talking from the point of view of supporters who have enjoyed that success, and pointing out the extreme unlikelihood of Rangers ceasing to exist as a result of going into administration, which is the main point Toonpack keeps harping on about, and has done generally for a long time now.
Simple fact is that, they will come back. They will not go out of business ie cease to exist. Like Fiorentina, rather than Third Lanark.
The principle in sport is that if you are shown to have cheated to win something, then you are no longer the winners. The Rangers fans can say what they want, they wont change that.
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you have indicated how disastrous going into administration would be, I have always pointed out to you a fairly straightforward point, which is that football clubs - especially the big ones - just don't go out of existence as much as you would like to make out this is so for your own reasons which are as obvious as the nose on your face.
Rangers had the success at the time, to disregard it all now is stupid, they enjoyed it at the time and those times cannot be taken away. Its like saying that Geoff Hurst's goal in the 1966 final didn't cross the line so its too late to celebrate. Stupid.
My point is quite simply that whether they broke the rules or not, it doesn't matter what we "think". While others ought to be shown they will be punished, if you think it will make football whiter than white in the future you are living in cloud cuckoo land, as usual.
If the players they bought to acheive those honours are proven to have been enticed to the club with illegal contracts then the last 25 years of RFC will count for nothing in the eyes of the SFA rulebook, other Scottish clubs, and their fans. Someone coined a phrase a few years back "financial doping"...thats exactly what this is. Drug cheats are stripped of their medals in the likes of athletics etc so there is a precident for it. What Geoff Hurst's goal in 66 has to do with it am not sure, he didnt cheat and neither did the officials, they made a decision during the course of a game to the best of their abilities. No one cheated in the 1966 World Cup Final, Rangers are accused of cheating the game of football for the last quarter of a century.
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Its difficult to know what to make some of the commnets left on this article
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Scores against us a fair bit mind, maybe MON is after a 'mag destroyer'.
Heskey is still without a club I believe...
West Ham for Emile, fuckin nailed on...him and the manager...its destiny...
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@SeppBlatter: After last night's match #GLT is no longer an alternative but a necessity.
Why did it not become a necessity after lampard's goal 2 years ago? Cunt.
There was a Ukrainian offside in the build up so he's willing to overlook that piece of piss poor officiating but not the one which said the ball was over the line. Thats why you can't have goal line technology...where do you stop with it?...its got to be all or nothing for me and if play had been stopped correctly for the offside there wouldnt have been a goal to bleat on about. Robot lino's anyone?....
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10 days? You might want to check your diary.
yeah you're right for some reason I took it into my head this morning that its next weekend not this one. -
He means if we had finished runners up we would be playing 24 earlier on the Saturday.
Yeah, but thats irrelevant to the minutely more important issue that Italy have a days more rest over England. Not that it matters too much anyway, both teams have in excess of 10 days to prepare for the game and England dont have any real injury worries. Don't think anyone can complain about the way things have gone, the team have done the business without looking like Brazil in 1970, which nobody was expecting anyway. Italy are ok, but I think we're better and have more options up front. Theyve lost Chiellini with a thigh strain as well apparently.
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A beaming Roy Hodgson told @bbc5live that finishing as group winners has exceeded all expectations. Extra 24 hours rest too ahead of Italy@Iandennisbbc
Italy played yesterday, so they get a days more rest than we do you fuckin clueless media twats
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England play Italy on Mrs PL's 40th birthday. Good. Serves her right for Chris fuckin Addison.
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I went to all the games with my brother in law we went all over the country always loved seeing the convoys of armstrong galley coaches made me feel really part of something great.
Anyway we couldn't get tickets for the Roker end but managed to get 2 for the fulwell end (actually can't remember if we got tickets or just paid in). Hi brother had told us about the invasion and that everyone was going to be on the left hand side of the fulwell end.
We went in and noticed a bunch of lads who like us weren't wearing colours (for obvious reasons). My brother had previously made sure I was wearing my doc martins as they gave a good kick and wouldn't fall off when being chased while at the same time being very runnable in.
So we went through the turnstiles and headed down to the left hand side of the ground quite close to the front where the fences were.
Just after kick off we heard the first roar of "UNITED clap clap clap UNITED etc etc...." so we joined in.
It was then we realised his dozy brother had meant the left hand side as viewed from the pitch.
us and the other 5 or so NUFC fans (obviously equally badly informed) legged it toward the paddocks in the clock stand.
kicking punching and forcing our way through.
We ended up standing in the paddock quiet as mice for the rest of the game and left 10 minutes early to leg it to the car.
One of many stories.
You in here Kev?...
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Rooney.....he's done next to fuck all for his country, he got injured in 2004, sent off in 2006, couldnt even help the team to qualify in 2008 and his personal life stopped him from even half decent in 2010. This is supposed to be our one true world class player; unlucky in 2004, fair enough, but he's seldom appeared to actually give a fuck and has been a liability more than once, including getting suspended for the first two games this tournament. He's been brought straight back in as some sort of messiah, so if he fucks up in some way tonight he shouldnt get another chance ever again.
On the other hand, Ukraine are shite and without their past-it best player, England should walk it
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TEAM NEWS: Ben Arfa replaces Menez for France's decisive clash with Sweden
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I should have told my story about going in the fulwell end in 1985.
Dont keep it to yourself Kev, you're amongst friends
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Not sure what's so funny about that. I think we are pretty much envied for our transfer set up.
dont come the innocent old son, you're fuckin at it!
We probably are, (beats me why Liverpool or Spurs havent moved heaven and earth to take Pardew & Carr from us but there you go, maybe Levy and the yanks arent as clever as they think) but not every transfer comes off as well as our recent ones. And it is quite a recent phenomenom; "Newcastle good in the transfer market" wouldnt you agree?...
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Who out of Gerrard,Terry,Cole and Parker will be good enough, should England qualify for Brazil?....none of them iyam, with the possible exception of Cole.
Its farewell to the "Golden Generation" then...Roy will have to come up with something extra special to do anything with whats left if he thinks Milner and Young are worth a starting place.