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Not a chance against either. Brasil are too good defensively if at full strength. Only point of attack would be Lennon against the LB. Plus England can't defend setpieces where unusually for Brasil they are unbelievably strong.

Didn't know David Pizzaro has retired, anyone know why? cracking little player.

In Seville? EDIT: Espanyol?

Divvent make him change his team man, means I have less chance of winning!

I'm untechnical and did that aye, probably be an easier way though.

gave me free drink when i was 15 did he also give you drugs and try to get you into bed ? oops no, that was someone else who very conveniently gets forgotten about in the press. Graham Rix?

Basically, Keane was supposed to be an accessory to Barry. When the Barry transfer fell through, Keane was surplus to requirements. Possible to expand on that? Just makes little sense to an outsider - i.e. why would signing Barry make any difference to the £20m Keane signing? Not only was the fee vastly inflated, but Keane was always unlikely to fit into the system Rafa prefers (Barry or no Barry). If the plan was to switch to 4-4-2 and have Keane as a partner to Torres, how did Rafa hope to achieve this by adding Barry to the central midfield squad whilst at the same time lacking good quality wingers (and Gerrard having proved to be ineffective in central midfield compared to playing in front of two central midfielders)? To make matters worse, he was signed iirc a short while after you got rid of Bellamy, who is pretty similar to Keane (in terms of the type of forward that he is) but twice as good and far more versatile. If Bellamy struggled in a Rafa system, what made Rafa think that spending £20m on an inferior version of Bellamy would work? Bellamy wanted out. He just wasn't into Rafa's follow-my-instructions-to-the-letter gameplans. From what I recall, I think Keane was supposed to do pretty much what he does, scampering around the edge of the box and feed off Barry on the left of a midfield diamond. At a guess, something nominally like this: Keane Torres Gerrard Barry Kuyt () Mascherano And presumably with the full-backs providing the width. That might be a load of cobblers, but it's the best explanation I've heard for what happened with Keane. Wouldn't the right FB have been Arbeloa though? Still mental that he wanted rid of Alonso in the first place. Criminally underrated when he was in the PL. Absolutely amazing player although he was a bit of a snidey so & so.

gave me free drink when i was 15

Do they put on a special bar or do you just have to go to them bars that are already there?

Oh aye, thankfully they're actually pretty decent together beyond paper. Both have very handy international records., and with the aforementioned Lodeiro playing behind them there's a chance of fireworks. EDIT: With journeyman Sebastian 'El Loco' Abreu on the bench aswell. Apparently he's the highest scoring player at the World Cup, in terms of total career goals. Them goals spread across 20 different teams,6 different countries and 3 different continents. Got Cavani they can hoy in the mix n all. Can see them struggling defensively though. Hope they progress.

Interested to see any of the players I've only heard of & not seen play live in particular those from South America. As Sewelly said there is a lot of hype about Nicolas Lodeiro,Alexis Sanchez, & Javier Pastore. Also looking forward to see how Nicolas Otamendi, Lucas Barrios & new mackem Cristian Riveros get on n all. From a less serious point of view I can't wait to see Boubacar Barry's antics in goal for CIV as he is turboshit and Maradona's escapades too.

Man City in linked with players from HSV shocker.

Messi/Veron FKs, not sure on pens.

Going to have to watch most of the matches at work unfortunately due to bent kick off times.

aye but a divvint like it man. Blue & England doesn't seem right. England have worn sky blue loads of times, we had that grey coloured kit in euro 96 against germany. The media created a massive fucking stink over nothing saying we should be wearing red I know they have, should always be white home and red away though IMO and 3rd kits in general are a waste of time anyways. In theory the only time we'd need to wear would be against Paraguay and even then we'd probably get away with not wearing the home kit.

aye but a divvint like it man. Blue & England doesn't seem right.

shouldn't be too difficuilt.

Poor compared to the other two IMO.

Boycoutts all round if they've different sponsors as their fans are mongs.

That annoys me. Watch the game FFS. If you want a dance go to the disco or something.

Who plays Left Mid for the US and/or Slovenia? He is the weak link by a long way in the England set up. Truly awful defender, no suprise he played his best games of recent times at right mid.

Gerard slips in a cross for Defoe to poke home. Glen johnson just gave a pen away Glen Johnson is fucking terrible.

Howay man people watching, decent updates.

Aye i remember going ballistic at whoever was marking him for showing him inside on to his left foot. Appalling defending. Bernard? Can't remember, probably though as he would've been cutting in from the right.

Beat Denmark over the weekend who are ok. Not sure what strength team the Danes had out though.