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By: France & Italia

France & Italia — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:43:46 +0000

The reason why England NT is not performing well has nothing to do with the PL being drown out by foreign players. It is too easy to blame others for your poor performance. The main issue is that England has very few good players owing to a poor youth training system (training centers). England is like 30 years behind the likes of Italy, France, Spain or Germany in terms of training and techniques. That merely means that you do not produce any good players or very few and rely on massive import of foreign talents from continental Europe (same goes for coaches). If the PL was not as rich as it is (thanks to your extreme way of turning football clubs into corporate invesment) to purchase these foreign players, English teams would fall far behind the rest of Europe.

Maybe a wake up call for English Football…

By: Terry Florida

Terry Florida — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:06:20 +0000

JUST AS I PREDICTED, THE ENGLISH LEAGUE BEST PLAYERS ARE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND AS LONG AS THIS CONTINUES ENGLAND WILL NOT BE GOOD, WHEN U LOOK AT ARSENAL THAT’S A FRENCH TEAM ARE YOU KIDDING? WHAT A SHAME

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By: elle

elle — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:37:03 +0000

1. shades of Greg Ryan
2. watch out for that knee
3. chin up england fans

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:04:21 +0000

Steven Gerrard was the best centre back on the side. (hold on… I have to stop laughing…) I’m glad the captain let Lampard take the penalty, I was also getting worried the duplicitous one would go the entire match without getting involved.

What’s with Sol Campbell getting out of the way of that last goal? (…) Like I said, don’t worry, Austria might withdraw.

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:45:28 +0000

The big question is: Where’s Frank Lampard? He’s got to have at least five shots, none on-goal though, mind you.

Someone’s got to take up for Michael Owen, who’s too concerned with what’s going on at the racetrack.

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:42:52 +0000

Ah, theatre, don’t you love it?

Carson clearly got a nice little wire transfer into his Swiss bank account after that ‘blunder’. He had plenty of time to practice, though, didn’t he?

Good job by the linesman to keep his flag down on the second goal.

Finally, the ref is being quite… um, I guess belligerent would be the correct word. Is that really how someone with absolute power should be acting? It’s as if he feels insulted with every argument?

It’s quite entertaining.

Now it all depends how many Englanders hedge their bets by halftime. If so, we might see a ‘miraculous’ comeback. If not, Austria might withdraw from the Euro after all.

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:25:12 +0000

Oh… this does not look good.

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green » Match Preview: English and Croatian lineups and tactics — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:38:58 +0000

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