Ahmed Dimwitson

what are you on? Xabi was walked over today by Makelele and Viera in midfield.

what the f*** have you been watching, been a boring destructive display by them decided by blatant cheating.

hasn't Rijkard won as much as Benitez in a shorter time frame? why would he only be knocking on the door ?

excellent card by the ref there. They should however also apply the same rules to the better teams with bigger name players, considering the Italians dive all over the place and there are quite a few other sides who aren't slow throwing themselfs.

Harsh penalty, but wasn't a sending off either so sort of compensates for it. But something needs to be done about the standard of refereeing, this is beyond a f***ing joke. And it is european referees who do CL games etc who f*** up constantly, Poll, Ivanov and this one was spanish I believe. Must be FIFAs instructions.

smashed Juve is that what that military parade was called. You had a good first half against Juve, rest you did you defensive duties well. Well, the biggest problem England has is indeed that its fans and the press think that Ecuador should be crushed 5-0 and in addition to that expect them to "crush" Portugal. Considering how successful England has been during the last 40 years one can not help but wonder where those expectations come from? It results in enormous pressure on the team though, which is no good.

Robinson was bloody poor, that said, those free-kicks and corners jad been well practiced by the swedes.

England playing well, Hargraves and Joe Cole have been excellent. Seems like the english press has been whinging again for no reason. Sweden is very limited, they only have three players who could make it into the England squad and one of them is injured at the moment, so this was expected.

That they still haven't conceeded has more to do with the poor standard of the opposition though, think they will have a hard time with those defenders and mifield in the future. Atleast England is solid at the back.

Excellent display by the yanks, too bad that the referee fecked them.

Well, as the ref has been so keen on blowing by the book it is amazing the he choose not to blow for a clear hand in the box.

This ref is unfortunately a disaster.

Anyways, right or not by the ref, that yank was bloody stupid though. No need to do that challenge in the middle of the field and knowing you are 11 against 10 with 2 minutes to go to halftime. What that feck was the point of that challenge?

bloody pathetic when the referees try to even things out. You need to be able to stand behind your calls and not try to compensate for it later.

He has a total of 200 minutes of football the last 6 months, think you need more than that to make it at this level, especially when pace is an essential part of your game. Was wrong to pick him at all. But career wise, he's been unlucky with injuries but he scored whenever he played for Real Madrid (was on the bench due to intenral politics) and at Newcastle he scored a lot before getting injured.

But Beckhams 3-6 good passes were actually excellent and should have been converted into goals. So a few of them goes astray, so what, someone can cover for that. What you need is players being able to make them match winning passes, these are the ones that win games. Not the 5 meter passes left and right, they are f***ing useless in the end and wins you nothing.

Ridiculous line-up, Carra should be in the middle or not play at all. He isn't good enough going forward which is essential to break teams like T&T. Beckham had 3-4 excellent crosses today which should have been converted. One was.

Decisive point was when Rooney and Lennon entered the game, was like the entire team got energy more energy and belief. Have to hand it to Sven for leaving Crouch on, was fecking wondering why as he had been useless and then he did indeed score. Would be important that Rooney plays in the coming games. Good finish by Gerrard, game was however decided by then. The critisism of Beckham is unfounded, the man had some excellent crosses, one which resulted in the goal, striker incompetence was the reason more of his excellent passes weren't converted. England can be dangerous in the future as long as Rooney stays fit.

The pass to Lampard..that is one more than Crouch has put together in two games and add the awful finishing to that and you sort of get to idea of how bad he has been.

He's been extremely poor. Atleast Owen had a few good moments.

WOuld sort of agree, then Peter Crouch would certainely not be playing. He has been shocking.

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Yet another excellent signing by barca, Laporta certainely knows what he is doing.

terrible decision?

the fourth game is when the tournament starts and that is when you need to hit form. Contiunuous improvement is what this tournament is about, and the last game is where you should be at your best. No point in over-analyzing this game, it was all about getting three points with as little effort as possible. In the entire group stage the main players should be conserved if possible.