neopulian

I'm sure Carroll was unplayable, Downing, Henderson, and Adam were amazing. It's the fault of dead woods like Kuyt, Maxi Rodriguez, Skrtel, and especially Aquilani that we are losing 0-3 to a team a division down?

Modric plays much higher up than Alonso. He plays Gerrard's role.

Thinking and wishful thinking are two different things. If you haven't seen much of him then how you could know with any degree of certainty about his passing, moving, crossing, or running? And no, he was not one of the best of that quite awful team -- which made his pricetag even more frightening and puzzling.

Under - X means you can be X year old when the QUALIFYING began Given that qualifying stages usually go in 2 year cycles, it's common to see lots of X+2 players at the final tournament.

Great individual goal by Sterling. FT 2-0.

Watching England against Nwanda. Same script as U-21, speed and power, skills are secondary, no nuances, rarely a hint of game intelligence. 1-0, BTW.

That's ace.

lol. 1-2. You can't teach carthorse racing.

I called him the next Mark Hateley, I wouldn't call that dissing.

If anyone was under the delusion that this brainless brand of football was an aberration or management problem, rewind to the last two World Cups and many tournaments before that.

They should win, but they ought to lose. A goal will just mask all the deficiencies and the neanderthal football.

England are as grim to watch as the Senior team.All bluster, no brain.

I think it's not getting getting your money worth spending it on average players just because they carried certain passports.

Just the kind of game you needed to see in order to be optimistic about the club's future -- you know, that we're focusing on the right talents pool...

England never fails to disappoint... Spain running rings around them, Remind me which one cost 20m again?

Oh, thanks. Instant recognizable avatar.

Stalk, no. To have a scent on transfer rumours? Why not. I don't even swing that way, not that there's anything wrong with it.

What's your twitter id, may I ask?

Today Wisdom, Coady, Robinson, Ngoo started. Against Montenegro Wisdom, Robinson, Coady, and Ince started, Ngoo came on as sub. http://www.uefa.com/under19/standings/round=2000082/group=2000648/index.html I'll try to catch the match against Spain, that will be a stern test.

The marchiavellian s**** the English FA pulled at least was in the interest of their own FA. That's more forgivable than those gaming the system for personal gain.

I don't give a crap about Blatter nor is this about England's losing bid. Remember how embarrassing the English FA behaved in derailing Lennart Johansson's bid for the FIFA's presidency because the Swede would support the German WC bid, when they lost successive WC bids there was a bit of "served them right" schadenfreude. FIFA's problem is deeper than Blatter. The same shenanigans would have happened had the president been Hayatou. NGOs, like Red Cross International or IMF, can be prosecuted or subjected to lawsuits if their executives abused their power or misappropriated funds. FIFA however is an organization unaccountable to anyone but their in-house "Ethics committee" thanks to the legal dispensation Switzerland afforded them. I can't see how anyone NOT have a problem with that or at least find it iffy. There is absolutely no motivation for FIFA to become transparent. The entrenched money interest encourages the current practice. Blatter made pandering to smaller countries an art by promising them more money from the FIFA's billion+ dollars pot. It's fine, assuming the money would actually get spent on football related matters (doubtful in most case, given the lack of transparency and awareness). However, this money could and HAD been use as bribe to buy votes and personal allegiance for those with the power to dispense it. Furthermore, certain FIFA officials had been making out like bandits taking kickbacks to do "deals" and they can't be prosecuted by local law enforcement under their current legal status.

Pray tell what priority the Academy should place higher than producing players for the first team? Creating world peace? Finding treatment for cancer?

Pleasant accusations, weren't they? "Giving jobs to his pals". Some people ought to take good hard look at themselves.

It'd be weird to see him scribbling on the sideline of another English club.

Exactly, Mark Hateley at best.