Sunday, July 02, 2006

Football's going home

So we are out of the footy.

And of course the natives are making excuses.

"It was an Argentinian Ref" - the ref was ok, got fooled by some diving but got the big descisions right. If you stamp on someone you get a red card. Tough.

"It was the system - Rooney got frustrated" - may be a point. BUT ask yourself a question. Mouriniho at Chelsea demands flexibility. he plays a mix of 4-5-1 and 4-3-3 so the system can't be all bad. He does it with a centre forward (Rooney isn't one) and two fast wide men. (Uhm Beckham fast? nope).

England's much vaunted midfield - we have some "GREAT" players here. And who was our best midfielder? the much reviled Mr O Hargreaves!!

At the end of the day Sven got much wrong but I think Graham Taylor got it right. "But my honest opinion is that he is not a better or worse coach than all of us - there is nothing extra special about him."

Very often he picked the best players who didn't seem able to play together. To me his big flaw was he was too close to one player. Lennon looked good every time he came on but we know that he could have played like Maradonna,Zidane and Pele combined and Becks would still have started.

5 comments:

KAZ said...

Thanks for bit of British sense. I obviously miss it in Catalunya.
Ah well It's 'Vive le France' now I suppose. For moi anyway.

flicker said...

When are England's footballers ever going to learn to take penalties in big pressure matches???? The goalie hardly had to move to save two of them. I suppose at least we didn't blast them over the top of the bar.

Have you read all the crap now about C Ronaldino won't be welcome back at Man U and that he should be made to leave? Unbelievable. It will be like that poor sod from Columbia won't it, who was killed after one of the world cups for scoring a goal or not scoring a goal, can't remember which now. Bloody pathetic.

Oh well come on you Germans.... :)

Boo said...

Yes, but why did (Carrick?) have to play that shoot out twice, I only heard it on the radio so I am very curious to find out what was wrong with the first shot?

The Quacks of Life said...

carragher? took it before whisle i think

nicola said...

I have no idea what you are all talking about !!!!!!!!

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