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Thought Vela was a sensible sort, but he's been trying to convince me otherwise of late. France are all over the place at the back.

I just don't get Capello. Rooney has had his best ever season playing as a lone striker the majority of the time. Was scoring all sorts of goals. Right foot, left foot, headers, everything. Put him up top alone and ensure he stays as far up the pitch as possible and let Gerrard and Lampard do the linking up behind him, with Barry holding. Lennon right and Joe Cole left. Honestly, what is the problem? Because Gerrard/Lampard/Barry will inexplicably be unable to maintain possession against inferior opponents, and in their frustration will start lumping it up to Rooney who will be left isolated, ineffective and marked out of the game. And we won't understand why, since they all play successfully with lone strikers at club level. It doesn't make any sense, but it's probably better to acknowledge the reality of the situation and play Heskey. I see what your saying, but Joe Cole on the left and Barry behind are really good in posession, and so it would certainly come together a decent amount of the time. I know it's been tried in the past before, but this back when Rooney was still uncomfortable alone upfront, and also Gerrard hadn't yet played behind a front man before. They are both now far more experienced in these roles, and even excelling in them. Just think it's a shame it hasn't been tried more recently, and there really isn't any reason why. There were more than enough friendlies to give it a go.

How can Capello not have ever tried that?

In all seriousness Ghana are probably the best of the African teams right now. Probably not the most talented, but they are very well balanced and they don't tend to do stupid things as often as all the others. They do miss that dominant striker though, as they just have never really seemed to have on for some reason. Yeboah was the closest they had to one I would say. Asamoah Gyan is talented, but he can be kept under control. I'll put it this way. If Capello sticks with this current setup, I would feel more comfortable putting my money on Ghana. Now I'm not saying I would want them to beat you, but if i had to pick I do think I would go with Ghana. Had quite a few Ghanaians giving me grief already today, so believe me you could well do me a big favour if you wacked them.

I just don't get Capello. Rooney has had his best ever season playing as a lone striker the majority of the time. Was scoring all sorts of goals. Right foot, left foot, headers, everything. Put him up top alone and ensure he stays as far up the pitch as possible and let Gerrard and Lampard do the linking up behind him, with Barry holding. Lennon right and Joe Cole left. Honestly, what is the problem?

Must resist ... Martins is gone so let's leave it at that.

Better than England though. Was waiting for someone to jump on him. You guys have been very patient, thanks. I appreciate it. 11 vs. 11 and actually focused I do like Nigeria, but as you can see that's never a guarantee. Sucks. Look I hope you guys do well tomorrow, Capello is being very silly though. Don't like his decisions so far at all. Mostly what I was basing my bold predictions on. Milner on the wing? Are you kidding me?! You guys know how I feel about that.

God we are pathetic ... just unprofessional. An embarrassing outfit all around. They should just pack their bags now!

It's so weird because I am more annoyed with Yakubu for that miss. Obasi did so well to be unselfish in the first place and feed the ball into Yakubu perfectly, and I was so relieved about that at the time. Yakubu just has to put that away. I really despise the guy. Has offered nothing so far in these two games.

Obasi and Obinna are also both very capable there, but they are not consistently given the ball. We just don't have consistent service from the midfield three. Haruna is trying but he's too young and inexperienced. We have missed Obi Mikel badly, who plays more forward for us than he does Chelsea. Obi Mikel is really our midfield playmaker. I feel terrible for Enyeama, Shittu and Yobo as they have all given their all. All it takes is one idiot though. Bloody Sanny Kaita.

Given you ample opportunity, so I'm stealing your joke again. http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/4787/simonadebisi.jpg The Minister breaks another laptop. Was biding my time man. Still think they could qualify like. Beat Korea and Greece lose to Argentina and they qualify. Why though? Just to serve up mor eof this bollocks?! I'm in enough trouble as it is. I honestly think my neighbours might have called the police for the profanities I was screaming at the top of my lungs after that Yakubu/Obasi debacle.

Hope he gets a freakin' hat trick.

Our specialty didn't you know. What a bunch of clowns, I mean honestly this is just unreal. You must be especially riled by the commentators' praise of Yakubu, after he missed that one-on-one. Like the praise of Nicky Butt during our latest relegation season. *cringe* Tell me about it ... sickening.

Our specialty didn't you know. What a bunch of clowns, I mean honestly this is just unreal.

That Nigeria team won't make it out of South Africa ... the rebels will get them. Incompetent suckers. YAKUBU I KILL YOU!!!

Probably for West Ham with a save like that ...

It's an epic fail in every way, shape and form and from every possible angle. Martins should have started the game. I don't care if he's 4 foot 3 that guy has ten times the heart that orangutang Yakubu has.

Yakubu is completely an absolutely shit ... Obasi was stunned from the fat hippos miss. Basically they're both motherfuckers.

I really feel sorry for West Ham if they buy Yakubu

Nigeria and, by association, the whole of Africa is s***!!!1!1 LOLZ :lol: Aaaaah sharrrrrrrrrrap! We are so rubbish though. Actually went out of our way to find a way to throw the game away. Just incredibly frustrating. Pretty certain this will end a loss now.

A 1,000 curses on your fat, ugly, mishapen head Kaita. Fuck you.

agreed....he's always been a super slow player but as most will have seen from watching him...many players could still not get anywhere near him or get the ball off him. He struggled to really settle in Spain with Villareal so I don't think here will be any easier.....good to see a player of his calibre here though if he comes.... He was incredible for Villareal from what I remember. Set up a million goals for Forlan.

I've got a £100 bet with one of my close mates that an Asian team wins the World Cup before an African team does Both an Asian and African nation will win one before England gets another too!

:lol: I fully expected this. You guys have been on the wind up all tournament. I say one thing and now you're all throwing a hissy fit and having a go at Nigeria and African football etc. That's okay you go ahead. We don't claim to be the best and we don't always claim we are going to win every world cup. To be honest I'd much rather they sorted a lot of other things going on in Africa, before they start worrying about winning world cups. Having said that though, all things considered, I'm still happy with what Nigeria and some of the other African teams have managed to achieve considering the horrible investment and support from their respective football associations. Now having said all that. If it all came down to it I would most definitely put my money on Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast if they came up against England. So if you really think those three teams are that crap then it says a lot about England also.

wtf I see you England supporters have got your confidence back eh? Slating SA for drawing with Mexico and losing to Uruguay. What's that about? OKay, guess we'll see what happens with your lot come Friday. You haven't been looking too hot though. who do you support then? nigeria? Nigeria 1st and then England 2nd. However, my England support isn't nearly as strong tbf. You've all been a bit too cheeky And yes Nigeria would have you lot easily. No question at all