Neil

They've still got Arteta and Ramsey, so they'll be fine. True, but I think it's a big blow because IMO he was going to be one of their key players this year, someone who could drive them forward in midfield and make something happen. Arteta and Ramsey could do a good job but their availability doesn't detract from it being a huge blow for Arsenal.

That's not what I was saying, but for argument's sake I thought we'd get much more value out of playing someone like Cleverley there, for example. I see very little reason to play a shit footballer like Barry who will thankfully have little to do with England's future, unless there is literally no-one else to play.

I didn't see the whole game, saw it from about 60 minutes in. 2 truly awful decisions at the end like. I heard he got a pretty blatant Czech penalty claim wrong in the 1st half as well? Few smaller things as well suggested he didn't have a clue what he was doing. If it was my team, I'd have been fuming at the end - there was one little moment where you had a free kick to be taken by your keeper right at the end in injury time, and he was stood a few yards away writing down the details of the Czech player he'd booked for what felt like an absolute eternity. Could hear the crowd getting royally pissed off.

Wilshere not back until November apparently. Ouch. Edit: Perhaps December. Big blow.

Effectively, I guess he is, yes.

Yes, but he thinks Barry is the answer, hence his good work is firmly undone.

Class. :lol:

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James "1 good game in 10" McFadden.

Should've just gone for Holland -10.

Well, that teaches me. Should've just kept to a Crawley/Sheff Utd double I had planned but no, I go and do a daft 4 fold.

Czechs did have a pretty blatant penalty denied earlier on... safe to say that ref was incompetent.

Oh my word. That's unbelievable.

Great pen. But was never a pen.

Haha. Pen to Czechs.

Would be amusing if they held on here then drew against Lithuania.

Scotland 2-1!

Italy only won 1-0 last night didn't they?

Czechs equalise. It was coming.

Right, well, whole 17 minutes before that fucked up.

Nice!

Gateshead Darlo DNB Forest Green DNB Burton

Scary how accurate Jonny's previous mock statement was.

Ultimate trolling.