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Benitez has just come out and more or less said he's going to just keep on picking nando. Nando owes him bigstyle. Why shift pongolle after he'd just got two. Took that for granted at the time

Don't see the big deal. It's not as if vision is a big part of his game anyway. Just point him in a direction and tell him to run til he hits something

richardson's got two england goals?

there was that time when cisse won us the super cup single handedly (no pun intended) and in the interview afterwards benitez only made it 96% obvious he wanted to sell him straight away.

Massai say that comparisons of that nature are ludicrous?

He wasn't even MOthef***ingM is this the end of him being the best underrated player in the country. That's right out of the Gerrard school of winning MOMs

I live in London in the Heart of "INGURLAND!!" fans and i literally haven't met one person who thinks we'll win. I'm sure out there in the ether there are people who reckon that we might though but it doesn't justify your comment about "England aren't as good as they think they are and thus won't win". The vast majority don't think we will and that is the representative body. b*****d doesn't irony translate well in freudenburg

I'm just giving them the same leeway we probably give a few others we don't like i.e none. Ferdinand's a druggie y'know Kahn, Lehman, Figo, Barthez, Emerson, Ronaldo, Aragones, Adebayor, Reyes, Duscher, Totti, Robben, RVN, Zidane... that's without trying. Like i said you don't have to support england, of course you don't but it was just your apparent choice of spain that had me stumped FFS what is it with you lot. WE DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO WIN! GET IT! DON'T THINK WE WILL WIN IT

I don't think we're bodging our tactics that much. it's just that we have 2 outstanding CMs. Where does that point v Argentina come from. Is it because i said we'd beaten them. We did history will record that fact otherwise I'm going to start banging on about a load of stuff. We would have beaten france if we hadn't missed a pen. The ref made a bad decision v portugal and we only lost to the hosts on penalties blah blah blah

Fair enough. You don't have to support the national team. The only thing i don't get is supporting or not supporting a team because you hate the players. If Liverpool signed the sbove players you mentioned would you stop supporting Liverpool. Are you happy Liverpool have a wife beater on their books or someone who runs over old men and then runs away or someone who chucks stuff into the crowd... I could go on. Surely you pick the team first. Like I said there are definately reasons not to support the contemptible spanish set up. That's why i don't get why people make a big deal of what they don't like about "Ingurland" and then go on to say come on spain. Don't they care about stuff that makes the spanish side objectionable? are those issues not important compared to hoping Lampard doesn't play well. It doesn't make any sense.

I think he's mad at him for prioritising Champions' League over the WC

Carr was fantastic til he picked up that long term injury at spurs. I rated him above finnan in that spell for sure

Watch RTE and buy Irish papers. Jobs a goodun It's gonna be great

Just heard on Sky that Robbie Keane looks most likely

see, that is an attitude i understand and respect even if i disagree obviously

we were impressive in other games notably twice against the only other team that was gonna be a threat. I'm just looking at the teams, players and performances and like i said the two teams that are better than england are argentina and brazil and that is by some distance. We genuinely have a better team than all the others imo I don't get this love in with spain. They're no more likely to have loads of Liverpool players than england But this season i have seen lots of Milan and lots of chelsea and for my money chelsea have performed better this season. That;s about the best method i can use to judge who is better this season

as soon as i depressed the button i clicked on to view this I knew i was going to be disappointed. To answer the question no i wouldn't be happy. But (and i presume this is a dig at chelsea) would you have to stop suppporting your club and not enjoy any wins. It wouldn't be your fault

Milan barely qualified out of their group george on the rest of it I obviously agree with you saying we have to learn how to control the game and slow it down but the difference me and most is i don't hold foreign players up in mythical esteem as technically better to england players who are all hoofers. There are teams that we will struggle against but they really aren't that many If it was a Liverpool match Anny would have said "It was a schit performance. it happens get over it" and he would have been right. Games like that happen.

Arsenal fans started to get this superior attitude due to the football Wenger got them playing. You do wonder whether they celbrated their trophies under graham. Chelsea and ourselves just don't like each other and will slate each other for anything.

in which case f*ck em

yeah but england are better than all of those teams so it's more likely that england will win in a game against them but Crouch, Gerrard and carra play for england and there are a million reasons to despise spain.

to be fair isn't there a massive gap til chelseas's next home game

he's been different class to cisse this season Cos anelka can play. Watching Djibril and i mean genuinely watching him, he's been shocking since the first 5 games bar saprissa and everton. You don't need stats you just have to look at what he is doing. This isn't a defence of other strikers either at our club as they've been very poor too. You're taking this the same way i did when it was rumoured it was Heidi that was leaving the sugababes

why do you want spain to win?

Before people start jizzing off and saying schit like England are only 8th favourites you can f*ck off now. There's not an earthly Brazil or Argentina aren't going to win this thing, we're third behind them but a distant third. I figure that our biggest hope is to rely on our top quality defence. Sit deep and try and get the pace of rooney Cole and Owen away to cause problems, this is because we can't do that slow slow quick slow football that the rest can, and english players like playing at that hundred miles an hour tempo but we'll be f*cked by the quarters if we do that. At least it's in europe so we can live with the temperature This realisation is depressing. I don't want to go there knowing we'll probably bow out at the quarters or semis. Hope the players don't have my attitude Anyway here's hoping we bring it back. It'll be a great day.