*sigh*  Oh well, we're used to this by now.

I hate these slow pens! 

 

Hard and low is the way to do it! Smash it! 

 

 

and wtf was cole doing? prancing about like a fart in a colander .

England were shit and no matter what the BBC say, it weren't all Ashley Youngs fault 

F*cking scouse bias 

Thought both Young and Cole were just unlucky... all down to luck with penalties, doesn't help with our track record for pens in this country either, we all know the pressure and the sh*t a player gets when he misses a pen though.

 

 

As for Rooney, I bet the Toure brothers are pissing themselves laughing at him now... came right back to bite him on the arse.

*Agrees* it was one man in a few 

What did Rooney do to the Toures?

Yup

toures de france?

i dont play football.

Same old same old, outclassed again, as usual - not that I was expecting any different from the current crop.  Will we ever have a national side that's among the best in the world!

Publicly took the piss out of them when they lost in the final of ACON for Ivory Coast.

we are the best in the world  at cricket!

I don't think England will ever be on the same level as Germany, Spain, Italy etc.

 

In Spain, they got kids in the Barcelona camps from the ages of 6 coming up to play tippy tappy football like Xavi and Iniesta under a ridiculous amount of coaches... over in the UK, you've got a Dad on the sidelines kicking off with the manager telling him his son is going to be the next George Best and his mother by his side shouting to her son that it's "the taking part that counts"

On the plus side, at least we've avoided being ripped apart by Germany.

Ah. I didn't know about that. They didn't dazzle the Zambian team but Rooney should have kept it zipped. He hardly ever turns up for the national team!

Most people I know backed the draw. We were right! A good display by the defence and I think we did rather better than expected. In the unlikely event of Terry being found guilty of any offence later on I would rather he received a royal pardon.

 recognising loads of that

It's hard to disagree.  'Best league in the world', best set of second tier professional clubs in the world, largest league in the world.  Still mediocre.  Can't see it changing.

Roy says the best thing he can take from it is 'the fans'.  That's just another way of saying the players were in no way up to it.

The same fans singing " Rule, Britannia" at an England game? 

FFS!. We don't even know how to be English anymore!!! 

And "God save The queen"!?!??!

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FFS!!!!

God Save the Queen is not only lyrically unsuitable anthem but it's also a boring dirge.

 

Judging by the Jubilee celebrations she's the queen of tax evaders.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, because I liked saying it. Our game isn't geared up to producing a national team. It's best to treat these competitions as a bit of end of term fun. Having said that we did better than expected and the unbeaten defence can hold their heads up high.

It doesn't matter what the fans sing either.

 

Hi GJ,

 

I don't share your optimistic outlook!

 

Unbeaten or not, overall it was still mostly awful.  Not quite the humiliation of quite a few other tournaments and the let down of the so-called golden generation era but still predictably rubbish.

 

I think we've gone way past the "there's still a way to go, what do we need to do to catch up?"  thinking and resigned ourselves to England's long term second rate status in international football.

I'm not sure what you were expecting. I'll stick with my end of term theory. It's a great tournament, we made the last five. Rejoice!

No, I think you're right, I've just never thought of it in quite that way!

The most depressing stat of them all... Joe Hart completed more passes (45) than any other England player yesterday.

Brilliant!

I'm looking forward to the last three games too.

Then it's a long long wait until August 18th.

Just remembered that there is some footie at the back end of July.

Nasri to journalist: "Always looking to write some shit on us. F-ck you, go f-ck your mother son of a bitch."

 

 

What a hero

Indeed! Well said that man.

 

Worth a try?

 

 

Now that's dedication

Both Portugal and Spain putting England to shame right here...

Scott "Scottie" Parker would walk into either team.

Second half is abit... Flat.