Comments on: Beckham’s Goal

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:50:49 +0000

you know, england lost and they fully diserved it. they are fighting agaist them instead of playing the game. i would not tolerate that for a second. btw, i have a portuguese mother so i know what im talking about and i wont let these jokes get to me.

By: Regina

Regina — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:09:52 +0000

BecKs, you rocks!!

By: Hoiseng

Hoiseng — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:45:53 +0000

I HATE PORTUGAL! arghh ..BECKHAM ROX FOREVER !

By: joyville

joyville — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:51:27 +0000

I’ve seen Becks score this goal before. But it was nice to see it again.

By: mars

mars — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:57:46 +0000

I’ll give England a perfect score thus far. Not pretty to watch but generally concrete. I can’t say anything bad about Beckham neither. Altough he does take every effing free kick so he should put one in every blue moon. I’d like to see Crouch supporting Rooney with the nod-ons and it is maybe a shame that we didn’t give Theo Walcott a run out maybe during the last game of the group against Trinidad, so we could what if anything he might do, but I willhave to accept that Sven’s conservatism is paying off. Anyway, I am glad were still in it and I am glad we are facing the Portuguese at the next stage rather than the Argentines or Brazilians or Italians or even the Dutch. The draw is working for us thus far, and the team should be improving enough to meet each growing challenge. Were as good as any of them, and lets just hope we can see some positive fruitful attacking play.

By: lextorite

lextorite — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:53:44 +0000

Lennon IN, Beckham OUT….

By: dobbo

dobbo — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:04:55 +0000

NO ONE CAN BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM!!!!!

By: peacex

peacex — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:02:36 +0000

its time the FREAKING BRITISH MEDIA/ENGLAND FANS start appreciating david beckham. without him. probably the 1st game against paraguay will be a draw. no goals for the 2nd game and of course not a win against ecuador.

By: Patrick Lockyer

Patrick Lockyer — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:28:59 +0000

So much from so many about which they know little. Don’t write for a while guys, study the game a bit first, as many posters online are just like Marcel Bilboa the ABC TV commentator only ten times worse. The English are at the end of a hard season. We should play a Winter World Cup and see the difference as ‘other’ skills come into play. Do you think the South American and Africans would do well then? The stadium was very hot. Soccer is not meant to be played in that heat. The tempo has to be reduced. The near misses for England were ‘created’ and it could have been 4-1. The near misses for Ecuador were mostly as a result of good fortune as in the Ashley Cole intervention. The game was sound and entertaining if you understand and have put ‘time in’ to soccer. This is a Championship and you have to stay the course unlike Pope of USA and Deco of Portugal. I have put in 50 years and get a great deal more than most of you ‘new to soccer’ posters do obviously and I include the ones from UK. I was a paid professional Videographer for senior clubs up on the gantry at Liverpool and Newcastle and West Ham and helped coach players. I was in Germany as a soldier in 1966 when my team captain and two other West Ham players won us the World Cup. For the Argentina V Mexico match I donned my Sombrero and went to my local Mexican Restaurant and supported them and made new friends and loved every minute, especially the fine goal from Argentina. But there is just as much luck to get that goal as there is for Beckham to get his. You still have to have the nerve to try and then face the wrath when you ’sky’ it or miss. That makes the character of the player. Being a ‘fanatic’ is to support your side thru thick and thin. The English fans were behind their team from start to finish and deserved their win. The American commentators are cr*p and have no passion for the game. I enjoyed better listening to the passion of the Spanish Commentators without even understanding them. Get rid of dispassionate no nothing commentators and see the ratings go up. Put explainers on that know the game. America has invented terminology like ‘make up call’ and ‘put out of bounds’ when the goalkeeper makes a terrific save and puts it ‘out for a corner. They say ‘foul on so and so’ when the foul is against ’so and so’. It would suffice to say that the foul was on England by Ecuador or vice versa. They need to admire the wonderfully well timed tackles that rob the attacker without fouling him and to understand, like the players do that if they are given a yellow it’s their fault and no one else’s. Unlike was the case in the reporting of the US matches. They need to identify and explain that to foul to break up play as Ghana did is not the same as to foul with a hasty two-footed tackle from behind just in front of the referee that might injure as US players and others did. There were handball instances and pushing in the box on Sunday that might have led to penalties in other matches and especially in German matches at home and you have to accept that. It is part of the beautiful game. Please don’t let these post match analyzers spoil this game by introducing time outs (for advertising) and re runs of incidents. The game works best when left to the ref and you have to accept the good with the bad. The ref in the Portugal V Holland match had an enormous task and people don’t seem to understand that. Who could have done better? Would you have liked to officiate at such a game. He kept his nerve very well when many might have run away to the dressing room and cried. These are hot blooded soccer players and Portuguese and Italians are known for that. There are some South American teams who are known for boiling over also. I risk sounding pompous but if that’s what it takes so be it. Get some time in before thinking you are an expert at defining and explaining and criticizing soccer.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:35:47 +0000

British newspapers want Figo out of game… Jesus Christ!!! all that fear? the game is played next saturday, 4pm… don’t try to play it earlier… leave it to the pitch…