chicago_shearer
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Seaman ('98)
G. Neville ('98) - Ferdinand ('06) - Campbell ('98) - A. Cole ('04)
Beckham ('02) - Gerrard ('06) - Scholes ('98) - J. Cole ('06)
Shearer ('98) - Owen ('98)
Martyn ('98), Ince ('98), Rooney ('04), Adams ('98), Lampard ('04)
Not a bad team is it? (And yes, I really am that bored
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Shearer's peak was before '98 though.
True. Still wasn't too bad from '98 on though.
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There isn't really that much competition for that accolade tbf.
I disagree. The present team is terrible, but the France '98 and World Cup '02 squads had some exceptional players in their prime.
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I'd say Ferdinand is easily the best English player at the moment, and definitely in the top three England players over the last ten years or so.
If tommorrow, we needed an Earth XI to take on a Mars XI, Ferdinand would be the only player with a chance of making the team.
Best of '98-'08....Shearer, Beckham, Owen?
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Well done to the Euro 2008 cameraman. All these fat, ugly blokes with their shirts off but he always finds the odd supermodel at the end of every match.
Very disappointing match. Russia had a great 90 minutes against Holland, but otherwise I wasn't very impressed.
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Seemed to nice to manage Italy in some ways.
Lippi just re-appointed again...
Don't hang around do they?
Why would he want the job again? He could easily just retire a legend and do something else.
Wow....look at that lightning.
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I'd like to see the Spanish come out and thrash the Russians. This "player of the tournament" hype about Arshavin is getting annoying seeing as he's only played twice.
3-1, Villa & Torres run riot.
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I think I might take Eto'o
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Russia v. Turkey would have been a comical final since neither are really in Europe.
As bad as the Germans were today, I've decided though that if I could sign one player for Newcastle from this tournament I'd take Schweinsteiger. Exactly what we need.
Really? I like him, but of all the players in the tournament? Ahead of the likes of Toni, Benzema, Fabregas, Villa etc etc etc?
I think you're missing his point, considering three of those have done nothing of note.
Yeah, just based on performances this tournament. Although I probably wouldn't mind Fabregas or Villa either though.
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Russia v. Turkey would have been a comical final since neither are really in Europe.
As bad as the Germans were today, I've decided though that if I could sign one player for Newcastle from this tournament I'd take Schweinsteiger. Exactly what we need.
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Speaking as someone who doesn't rate Milner at all, I think it would be stupid to sell him unless we have a massive July transfer season lined up. We might actually need a few players in the squad if we want to be playing football for 10 months of the Premiership season.
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Worrying like a bunch of women about transfer gossip beats worrying about relegation. I wouldn't say I'm enjoying it, but it doesn't bother me. At least not yet. Plenty of time and not much action from the rest of the league, except Spurs who are having a bit of a splurge this summer.
I can't imagine Keegan can look at our midfield, 15-odd competent players and think we just need a little fine tuning, but he knows more than I do and if he can make Butt & Geremi role back the years, get top 6 performances out of Milner & Zoggy then fair enough. His head is on the line and I'm prepared to be proven wrong. I still think, however, that he knows we need 5-6 first teamers and that is what we will end up with. Those will likely be the Ligue 1 bargains rather than Arshavin & Arda Turan, but I assume he and the rest of the scouts/DoF know something that YouTube, Wikipedia and the whiners on this board do not.
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Russia & Spain will certainly be the better of the two semi-finals, and I think the winner will be better prepared for the final as a result. I can see Germany coasting past whatever side Turkey can cobble together and suffering for it.
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I'd like to see them experiment with a different method. Someone (might have been on here) suggested that after 30 minutes of extra time, each side must remove 1 player every 2 minutes until a goal is scored. Would be more entertaining than a lottery and would actually settle a football match with football.
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Well done Spain. At last the football gods turn their back on negative, boring football.
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Sergio Ramos, Villa and Guiza are all missing penalties.
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Luca Toni is Kevin Davis and Italy are Bolton. Spain are a team of 11 James Milners.
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The Italians are showing their traditional mixture of flair and caution. As in the past, it can be a very effective combination and you can see them nicking it.
Flair?
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I've had a more exciting 45 minutes in the waiting room of the dentists office with a 6 month old copy of Time magazine. Utter rubbish. Diving, play acting CRAP. A below average Premiership side would be 2-0 up against either of these sides in this game for the simple reason that they would be playing at a watchable pace and at least attempting to score.
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3 group winners out.
3 group runners-up in the semi-finals.
More to the point, momentum is more important than rest. The 3 teams who had to win their last group games and have maintained their intensity have won their quarter-finals. Certainly Portugal and Holland who are teams who play well when they get into a rythym suffered from halting that by playing their reserves in the last group games.
On that basis, Spain have no chance against Italy tomorrow.
Good post.
If Aragones is a good coach as well as a slimey racist bastard, he will make that exact point to his team tonight. He can't allow Italy to dictate the pace....they are old and slow and really have no business winning tomorrow (although they probably will....)
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You have a point there James.
He seems like a player who could make a top side even better, not someone a bad team can build a team around. We require the latter. And if we shell out the 15 million or so it would take to even get a bid accepted by Zenit, I'd want a more well rounded player for the money. In terms of unrealistic big money targets, Turan would tick more boxes in terms of what we desperately need (creative midfielders....or just midfielders in general).
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the dutch only have themselves to blame. they stopped playing through the midfield and hoofed long balls up
I agree. They completely ran out of ideas.
Don't think so. They ran out of ideas, but long balls weren't the problem. They never stopped trying to play the ball straight down the middle it seemed to me, and had no plan B. The Russians kept things very tight in the middle, dominated the Dutch midfield and gave them no room. The match was crying out for a pacey wingers to test the Russian full backs instead, but Van Basten kept him on the bench and through on Van Persie instead (who was f***ing hopeless).
He should have kept Kuyt on the right, put Robben on the left and tried that formation in the second half. It was clear after 30 min that Van der Vaart & Sneijder weren't going to have the same sort of room. I was supporting Holland, and it was frustrating as hell watching them keep forcing it in the final third when there was all sorts of room out wide. All that talent but everything was going through two players.
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out of our reach now after another superb performance against the dutch
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I am become death, destroyer of football teams. First Switzerland and now Holland. Beware the team I decide to support in my avatar next, because you will surely suffer painful elimination.
Hiddink is without a doubt the greatest manager in the world. The luckiest as well. If England had one ounce of pride and ability, they wouldn't have been at the finals.
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Out on penalties probably.