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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.

I think rafa will go for penannt over SWP because he's a much better crosser and rafa has a real thing for crossing

Why Johnson ahead of Bent? Bent's my new favourite. He's quicker stronger and better in the air than owen and defoe and has a better record than defoe. I've been fighting against rating him because i thought he was avg up until this season but he's been undeniable quality. He can play on his own or with a partner. I haven't forgotten what Johnson has done the two seasons prior to this or indeed this season but i think bent has the edge. As said earlier he's my new favourite. Plus if we sign him we'll have Crouch and Bent up front then all we'll need to complete our strikeforce is a Neal and a Standing.

you can't take the piss out of peacock for correctly saying nolan has played up front and then say ribery is a striker

That wouldn't be vindication though. I too think moro still has something to say in europe this season

break his leg then he won't have to play in this friendly

"Drive beer" Yer wha? That's got to mean something other than this beer makes you operate a car better. Any Italian experts?

is rafa threatening the whole forward line there but no you're right he can't state it more bluntly to cisse. Going way back to all by posts about mori (even before saying he doesn't do enough wasn't a hangable offence), the one thing i always credited was his workrate. He's 30 and he can do it. Why can't the 25yr old cisse.

no. because he's not very good and we can scrape together enough players not to play him. We'll rotate anyway. Should have kept mellor and FSP with hindsight

Gronkamp went on a course to toughen him up ever since that blade of grass attacked him at portsmouth.

why did SteJ want Mori to score But Cisse doesn't do anything. He somehow manages to be worse than Morientes. Do you know how hard that is?

Morientes should marginally be in the team ahead of Cisse (I wouldn't pick either) but could you pick a worse argument to demonstrate the point. sheesh

and doesn't it show

he'd have to invent them first that wasn't the nature of the question you asked to be fair

Are schalke and dortmund big rivals. What's the english comparison?

Reina Finnan Hyypia Agger Riise Kromkamp Gerrard Alonso Kewell Crouch Morientes Subs: Dudek Cisse Garcia Hamann Traore I'd have thought maybe garcia would play but let's see how Gronkamp gets on Didn't see there was a match thread on top. Can you delete this please