Joe_F

They're old quotes aren't they?

Bidding war tastic.

Upping our bid from £4 mill to 7 - nee chance.

We've had just the same type of displays at previous tournaments when Lampard was in the side playing at his supposed peak. It's complete bollocks to think he'd have made any difference now when he's nowhere near the player he was. Don't think he'd have made much difference because we were outplayed across the field. But we lacked any composure in midfield which was actually my point. It maybe your point but it's not what you wrote. Yes it is, you've even highlighted it in bold. We needed someone else in midfield, a cool head capable of a defence splitting pass, switching the play quickly or striking from distance. Pirlo was the difference in that respect but I'm not saying Lampard would have filled that gap. It was merely another injury loss England didn't need in a tough game and Hodgson made best of what he had available. We rode our luck a bit and fought hard but we just didn't have the quality espescially in midfield. Which you said was Lampard ffs. "We missed his presence"...He "ticks the boxes"

We've had just the same type of displays at previous tournaments when Lampard was in the side playing at his supposed peak. It's complete bollocks to think he'd have made any difference now when he's nowhere near the player he was. Don't think he'd have made much difference because we were outplayed across the field. But we lacked any composure in midfield which was actually my point. It maybe your point but it's not what you wrote.

We've had just the same type of displays at previous tournaments when Lampard was in the side playing at his supposed peak. It's complete bollocks to think he'd have made any difference now when he's nowhere near the player he was.

Aye he deftly chipped the bar when clean through.

We let Pirlo do his thing. Basically, we had no-one on him at all in the second half and as a result, he was able to do what he's good at - influencing play. When we were off the ball in the first half, we certainly had a fair few players tracking Pirlo but as the game went on, the players forgot those instructions... That describes their play yeah, but doesnt explain our complete lack of possession when we had it suddenly. We just seem to lose our bottle in general when hard pressed, resulting in long balls & clearances to no one. It's called lack of technique

Because they know he's on his way somewhere else more likely.

Playing midfield tonight apparently.

Why? L'Equipe hadn't suggested any sort of bid had gone in or was imminent. Just that Wenger might be interested. Ryder's just trying to appear itk by refuting something that hadn't been reported in the first place.

Phew thanks for that Lee. Finger on the pulse as always.

That's nonsense that. Didn't play well tonight, like. What's he done apart from being neat and tidy and generally passing the ball backwards? Distinctly remember him being poor against Sweden before his goal and we did nothing as a team against France. I do like him, but he needs to be receiving the ball much higher up the pitch to be effective which won't happen they way we're playing. He hasn't even done that. His first touch and link up play has been abysmal.

The only bit I saw when flicking over from the England torture was when he played a through ball for Ribery which didn't work and Ribery had a right go at him. Ugly bastard.

Nah, it'll be 4.25

Article in The Guardian about Di Matteo's plans for Chelski :- Fuck right off.

"Report trickling in".... Aye on Caughtoffside, like.

Was listening in the car, so i didn't catch the name of the journo. They were talking to him about Amalfitano first and then he went on to say that Newcastle are big representatives (like Arsenal of old) in France and that he thinks Debuchy is "close" to joining us. What time was this? You can listen back to all of Talksport's output on their website.

Close to Cabaye

No

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He might not want to stay if he's fourth choice.

Pards and John Carver are doing a phone-in Friday night on Totalsport.

Makes me laugh that the dozy cunt doesn't understand why he took his time "before making him play". We're reaping the benefits now as will Les Bleus.

Howay Villa you bunch of twats