WC 2014 Match 22 - Uruguay vs England

[No Fixed Abode]

Naive substations again from Woy.

Losing and he brings on big game players Lallana and Lambert.

Called it on twitter Gerrard should have been hauled off at half time.

[Flyingkiwi]

If that's it and we're out. I want to see something like this against Costa Rica. Lets really see the future.

Hart
Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines
Henderson, Wilshire
Stirling, Barkley, Lallana
Lambert/Sturridge

Why stick with Hart?

His positioning is terrible and he will ALWAY look to clear the ball short (And, thus, not relieve pressure). Bring someone new in, I say.

[No Fixed Abode]

Look, lets not overreact. We weren't great, but we were done by two individual oxf*rd ups from one player who's in the twilight of his career, and one of the best strikers on the planet.

Yet again England are the nearly team, that but for the rub of the green would have been fine. Nothing new there.

First time we've ever lost the opening two games of a World Cup. That's progress.

[AthleticoSpizz]

We have reaped what we have sowed in the past ten or so years.

With thanks to the Premier League,S$y and some foreign owners

The disposal of young English talent in favour of the imported tailor-made articles...we are now where we are.


The only way is up, judge these youngsters at the next WC (they need to learn how to bark out the National Anthem like their opponents do tho' )

[72 bus]

If that's it and we're out. I want to see something like this against Costa Rica. Lets really see the future.

Hart
Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines
Henderson, Wilshire
Stirling, Barkley, Lallana
Lambert/Sturridge

The future is that we will very likely not qualify for a world cup for a while unless we get put in a really easy group.

[Avon Royal]

We've been humiliated by a player who was 75% fit at best.

[melonhead]

Naive substations again from Woy.

Losing and he brings on big game players Lallana and Lambert.

Called it on twitter Gerrard should have been hauled off at half time.

And sterling
Both dog shit

[multisync1830]

Look, lets not overreact. We weren't great, but we were done by two individual oxf*rd ups from one player who's in the twilight of his career, and one of the best strikers on the planet.

Yet again England are the nearly team, that but for the rub of the green would have been fine. Nothing new there.

First time we've ever lost the opening two games of a World Cup. That's progress.

It is progress: progress of the rest of the footballing world.

[strap]

Thank oxf*rd that's over. We can now get on with worrying about RFC and the Thai "consortium" taking us over!

The very word "consortium" should be setting alarm bells going off. I'm trying to remember a "consortium" doing any League club any good and am struggling to come up with anything positive.

Happy to be proved wrong of course.

Oh well, roll on tomorrow's test match and Saturday's 3rd Rugby test in NZ.

[Flyingkiwi]

If that's it and we're out. I want to see something like this against Costa Rica. Lets really see the future.

Hart
Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines
Henderson, Wilshire
Stirling, Barkley, Lallana
Lambert/Sturridge

The future is that we will very likely not qualify for a world cup for a while unless we get put in a really easy group.

Is there a great deal of difference between not qualifying and getting knocked out in the first round whilst embarrassing yourself? For smaller teams (Like NZ. Where the actual goal is qualification itself) there is. Should England be put into that category?

[tulip]

Disappointing but not unexpected.

[tmesis]

Yet again England are the nearly team, that but for the rub of the green would have been fine. Nothing new there.

I really can't think how you can say that.

Uruguay had far more good chances than we did. We looked like the same old clueless England, just playing a different formation, just managing to be even worse.

Then again, we usually lose in the world cup to the first decent team we play. We just happened to face two of them in our opening two games.

The brutal truth is that we just aren't very good, and this is the weakest England team for generations.

[AthleticoSpizz]

..again, we are where we are...and, of course, there are reasons for it

[AthleticoSpizz]

...but on the bright side,

after years of waiting, England are as good as Spain

[Avon Royal]

The only positive that could be taken from that game is the fact that it should be Gerrard's last one in an England shirt.

[Avon Royal]

..again, we are where we are...and, of course, there are reasons for it

Shit players

Shit manager

Shit governing body

Shit infrastructure.

Shit grass roots coaching

Shit culture

[AthleticoSpizz]

I'm off for a post match sh1t.

[Libertine]

Disappointed in England, and disappointed for the fans. Too much talent to be underperforming like this WC after WC after WC.

But, and there are a lot of "ifs" to this, if Italy beats Costa Rica and then Uruguay, and if England can beat Costa Rica by a large enough margin England is still through. Sure it is a long shot and most of it is out of England's hands but now is the time to become hardcore Italy supporters because if they win their 2 remaining games England is still has a chance.

[AthleticoSpizz]

yes but, Adrian Chiles still lives, whatever happens

[AbovetheI]

Look on the bright side. We're as good as Spain