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chicago_shearer

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  1. Ithink it now means if Germany win the group and serbia beat australia...then one of USA/SERBIA URUGUAY/S.KOREA will be in the semi finals.....

     

    And then gets raped by Holland.  Too much focus on the draw.  Who knows what will happen.

  2. Him and Terry both Chelsea players. Coincidence? I don't think so.  :shifty:

     

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/21/john-terry-dissent-england-coup

     

    There was something very Chelsea about the possible coup when it had first been mooted. The unrest surfaced in Cape Town but it could as easily have been at Cobham. Clear-the-air talks are commonplace in the post-José Mourinho era at the London club. They proved too much for Avram Grant and Luiz Felipe Scolari, whose authority was terminally undermined once senior players decided to act upon a groundswell of dissatisfaction, whether it was born of the manager's training techniques or game plans.

     

    Even Carlo Ancelotti endured it last season, when Champions League elimination was followed by a sloppy draw at Blackburn that, had Manchester United not suffered their own subsequent blip, might have cost Chelsea the Premier League title. The Italian manager at Stamford Bridge reacted as positively as he could to his players speaking their minds. The boil was lanced and focus and momentum regained. Capello, experiencing his first World Cup as a manager but a veteran and far more of a disciplinarian than his compatriot, was never likely to prove quite so accommodating.

     

    He may struggle to accept Terry's role as the public voice of an apparent revolt. The controversies in the centre-half's private life, with the effect they had on Wayne Bridge's international career, apparently forced Capello's hand in stripping him of the captaincy. Terry has always maintained his acceptance of the manager's decision, however hard it was to take at the time. The decision to detail his intentions ahead of yesterday's meeting is open to interpretation but it felt, at times, as if the 29-year-old was intent upon exacting some kind of revenge.

     

    His rhetoric smacked of a deeper assumption: that players would turn to their natural born leader, to voice their disquiet in the team's time of need. The injured Rio Ferdinand is in rehabilitation back at Carrington. Steven Gerrard is the captain but not a ranter or raver. Frank Lampard is his deputy. Terry is still the tub-thumper.

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