BlueStar

114 points this round

Got a bit of a dislike for those who are England fans first and foremost, in the same way people dislike Liverpool fans, Spurs fans or whatever.

All this talk about foreigners swamping the prem is fine, btu why are English players so reluctant to play abroad? There's bazillions of Brazillians at various levels of leagues in various countries, some of which may not develop into great players and some of which may do. English players seem to want to play in the prem and that's it. If they're not good enough for the prem, they'd rather play in the championship and go for promotion or hope to be picked up by a prem team rather than play at the top level in another country. If championship teams don't want them yet, they'd rather play in league one than play in the second teir abroad. If we could get more English lads to play abroad we'd have far more positions available at varying levels to plant the seeds of young players and we'd get a better return out of in in terms of the numbers that turn out world class, surely?

Did an abusive 1am voicemail to your boss get you the sack by any chance?

We've had this kind of post mortem after pretty much every competition we've been in, about what we need to change in the English game, where we went wrong with the manager, how we need to develop our youth... It only lasts a month tops and never gets beyond the talking stage. People lose interest in international football again until the build up to the next tournament and everything's forgotten again, with everyone drooling at the prospect of the players we've been watching scoring wonder goals all season tearing Germany and Argentina apart.

I thought that even over the internet it might have been obvious that my tongue was planted firmly in my cheek, but nothing flies so low that it doesn't whoosh over the head of at least someone with a sufficiently short intellectual stature.

That cat has made more of a thoughtful contribution to this thread than you could ever dream of in your wildest fantasies, it has a bigger cock than you and it could almost certainly knock you out.

More that they're just going "Sound, wasn't my fault, that one."

Watched most of the match yesterday like this http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/funny-pictures-cat-watches-sports-on-tv.jpg

Another cracking front cover from The Sun haha Great photo on the Times supplement, though. The Mail fucking hell Are you sure that's not a b3ta parody that snuck in there by accident?

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So if England scored every chance they had, and Germany didn't score any of the other chances they had, you know, apart from the four they strolled past us, it could have been a draw. Well, that settles it then, even game.

They could have put away five or six before half time. They were clearly the better side, more from us being absolutely shit than them being any good, but they clearly deserved the win, and by some margin. And that was reflected in the score. Can't wait to see what happens next tournament when this "Golden Age" is over.

Hope he gets fucking dogs abuse all season.

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Well quite. On the plus side, seeing as it's difficult to get behind spineless sulky twats like Rooney and soft diving dicks like Stevie G in the first place, it's difficult to be all that gutted when they do that.

Oh well, ladders out in Meadowell then.

Well at least we don't get to see what Argentina would have done to that lot.

They'll be after a 5-1 revenge now.

Heskey coming on to save the day

"The linesmen are from Uraguay and Russia, just in case you're unsure of which epithets to use"

The fuck?! Replay that shit!

Facegoal!

Looking forward to the post-mortem and the promise of a total overhaul of English football we always get.