The Ecuador Match: Player Notes

Let`s go England , we at Sports Betting Press picked you for the game. 2-1
go England
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yeah,i thought it’ll be a nerve-wrecking+intense match..i’m hoping the lads to go trough but um..we’ll see..

anyways, u can always count on STEVIE G (^_-)

Come on boys, don’t roll over like Sweden just have!

I think this game will go down right to the wire – penalties – England’s greatest fear. Good luck to all.

Enzo, if I was to bet, I wouldn’t put my money on penalties. I do think it will not be one way traffic and England have a game on their hands.

I have 2-1.

I think Sven has called it right… if neville was available Carrick would make way for Hargreaves in the holding role.

I call 2-1 to England… but I feel that they must play a lot better at some point… we shall see.

We need to come out strong and fast as Germany did and kill the game in the first 30mins. I’ll stick my neck out and say 3-1 England with all our goals in first half.

CUUUUUUMMMM OOOONNNNN!!!

SVEN OMG DOES HE EVEN KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT FOOTBALL?? once they are 1 -0 up they stop playing “oh just keep it that way we are winning” it wasn’t till Sweeden tried to push it that they did anything! they need 2 attack like the team of 66 they didn’t settle for a 1-0 victory did they?? THEY DONT NEED SVEN!!!

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Sven’s an idiot. Beckham has been done for a while now. Joe Cole is just trying to make a name for himself. Rooney is thinking about bitches, Bentleys, and getting pissed. I don’t know what the hell’s wrong with Terry. At this point, Lampard couldn’t put the ball in the ocean. All the young lads are too young and inexperienced to do any good. Crouch is, well, crouchy. And that leaves Gerrard, the only damn player on the damn team with a heart. If they advance, it’ll be because of him.

For such an important game I will be down at the pub for this one. I cannot wait to see the World Cup winners elect England play today! What an honour it will be! Recently I was thinking why on earth do England have to play all these games? surely common sense has to prevail! Do people not realise that England won the world cup forty years go and now, forty years later, England are going to take home the gold once more! I think the World Cup should be a tournament to se who gets to play England in the final! I do not think that Ecaudor will pose any problem. After all ive never heard of this little nation who think that they can challenge or deny Engerland and there amazing supporters (who incedently have been completely victomised by a large part of the german police and media!) After all whats the problem? do germans not realise that England fans making nazi salutes and reminding them exactly what this nation done Sixty years ago is the only way to remember such a terrible time in their history! I mean how backwards are the Germans eh? Anyway, i cannot wait to see the home coming of this most famous trophy. Gve them all knighthoods now, thats what i say! Come on Engerland! come on Beks! God save the Queen and rooneys right foot!

Christopher De la cruz Balfour (Scotland)

I believe we have enough key players with the skill and experience to go all the way (I don’t give a crap what any of you haters or whining England pussies say). I believe the players are motivated and ready. What I don’t believe is that Ericksson has the spirit, know-how, and belief to get the best out of his squad. So, it’s going to be down to the players, young and old, to step up, play with their hearts and show how much they want to win the ultimate goal in footie.

i agree with christophe’s comments, they might as well give the england the world cup just now and get it over and done with,isn’t 40 years of hurt enough pain to go without a trophy while insuperier nations like brazil, germany and argentinna and france have been merely borrowing the trophy until england get their act together. England will win the world cup if Steven Gerrald plays on the pitch by himself,and if peter crouch learns to turn the other way when he has his back to goal then everyone is in trouble.C’mon England,little joe cole, wayne “shrek” rooney’s right foot, frankie lampards screaming shots and beckhams sweet crossing and rio “you’ve been merked” ferdinand to take the world cup by storm.

the english fans were completely provoked, they are pissed up in another country who we have happened to beat at 2 world wars 60 years ago, surely a little sing a long and taunting, nazi salutes and hitler baiting was done for cheeky fun and no harm intented. hopefully it will rain the rest of the world cup as i dont want wayne rooney to get sunburn.i cant wait for the world cup parade,i want front row seats!!!!!

christopher and andrew such bitterness, why all the hatred? or is it just jealousy?

I sense a lot of frustration around here. Like it or not, those “insuperior” nations kicked your asses many, many times and they will once again this World Cup.
Oh, and… ” nazi salutes and hitler baiting was done for cheeky fun and no harm intented”??? What the hell is that supposed to mean? You don’t do that shit “for fun” and you certainly do harm people by being such an idiotic asshole.
Tsk, tsk… arrogance, ignorance and idiocy are no good…

Jealousy? is that your ’smart’ reply eh? its not jealousy, its pity. i feel sorry for all you england fans who have been led to believe that somehow England can win the world cup. its arrogance at its very best if you ask me. oh and by the way the england fans were completely out of order. i want more trouble from the England fans! i love seeing images of bald middle aged men covered in union jack tattoos being hauled in to police vans! its hilarious! who knows it may lead to a banning of the england football team in future tournaments, then we wouldnt have to put up with Ian ‘the most annoying man in the world’ wright, clive tilsley, motty, mark lawernson, alan ‘englified’ hanson, gareth ‘penalty king’ southgate, jonathon pearce! ect ect ect…the list is endless!! neverminding the ammount of times we are subjected to the mentioning of 1966!!! these people should have concrete blocks attached to them before they are thrown in to the middle of the north sea! i hate them all! the sooner england are out the better!

de la cruz balfour.

the odds from my bookies :
England to win by a goal margin within 90mins.
Possible..?

take a look on this web site chris i think the main picture is of german fans throwing chairs.but people like you are just too blind to see it . so you dont like england big deal is there anyneed for abuse. as for led to belive i have never stated that england will win the world cup.take off your tartan covered glasses. lifes too short to be bitter. arsehole.

laura, you are using comments from an anti english scot and a yank to throw at any english person on here. if you look no english person said insuperior nation(yank)and dont be so steriotypical so if some morons in germany do hitler salutes how can you blame us all.so before you start to call anybody ignorant you should look at yourself.

Alan – yes the pictures showed German fans throwing chairs. After a couple of hundred English had been arrested for racialy abusing them.

If you went for a walk down Brick Lane screaming abuse about Muslims and blacks, you’d get a similar response.

Thats whats happened there.

PS – excellent work chris!

could you be anymore in love with him you freak? oh excellent work oh i love you! your just jealous because you can got a footie team so i would do 1 if i were you! Anyway were are you from actually, Scotland, ireland or wales?? ohhs well it dunt matter because when it comes down to it you all hate use because well your envious!

…gosh…what a hilarious match against ecuador !!! Again the boring england team has beaten an even worse team.
england:ecuador = pity:desperation
When will this stop ? Only when england goes home…

i thought you ate saur kraut not sour grapes.

fao chris, laura and smoking monkee. out of all the arrests this world cup less than 5% have been english. do i here condemnation of all the other nations from you three racist bigots? of course not.there are non so blind as tose that wont see.

whatever…its saur !

the facts speak for themselves andy less than 5%, and all the german fans are angels. look at the poland match.chris calls for some people to be thrown in the north sea. excellent work you say?i would say thats a sick comment. but having read his other blogs i think he is sick. in the head.

AET – ha ha ha ha ha!

plus Balfour, as you’re in the UK, why don’t you go down your local Wetherspoons and play ‘dodge the knifing’ as you share your views with the entire pub…

…if you’re as brave as you’re trying to sound

…oh, you’re Scottish are u? well get it down south of the border among the England fans
and put your money where your mouth is chum… nah didn’t think so

whos flag next for balfour the bigot to wave next, holland or portugal.get your self out to the pub,get a girlfriend or a hobby. sitting by the comp hating everything english is no way to live?

england was lucky i think…
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AET… your right it was a boring game.. but at least England won.. They have another day to play…And it’s just the media hyping the English fan as a “Fighter/hooligan”.. They need to sell papers and print space. The stats speak for themselves. Percentage wise very few “English” fans were arrested out of 4000 thousand so far. So we get spend a few days cheering. Lets enjoy it…

D.. belfour is in canada..or at least his tag says he is…So am I…..wondering where his Pub is???

did I offend u alan? clearly I did. I touched a nerve didnt I? me a bigot? it doesn’t matter if english football fans are in germany, italy or france the response by the police is exactly the same. they prepare for months for potential violence involving england fans. its a well known fact actually whether you choose to aknowledge this or not? it is in fact true and you know it deep down. people like you instinctively look for other people to argue with. you feed of it so you can promote your blatant contempt for those who are not english. it is arrogance at its best. if i posed my views in an english pub then i would actually be stabbed. thats a fact, and thats my point. though you fail to see that as you are so conceited. with regards to the pictures of german fans throwing chairs at the english fans, its not something that just happened out of the blue! the german fans had been there for over two hours watching their team while a group of english fans had racially abused them. thats what you h

LET ME FINISH WAHT I WAS SAYING. i was saying, thats what you have failed to see. i pity you, i really do. its not that i am jealous or bigoted. if thats the case then you are just as bigoted as i am because you have contempt for non-english people such as the scots. you are the arsehole not me. now go and kiss your queens arse, its her birthday after all.

Ok, everybody.

I’m gonna keep this thread open for comments on the condition that we talk about football and not about one another.

It’s “A Time To Make Friends,” remember….

Chris i totally agree with you! Why do english fans think they are so hard? If they cant win at football there is always a fight after the match they can win! It gives the UK a bad name, you never see welsh or irish fans fighting and scottish fans are always being awarded for good behaviour, so why cant england follow suit?

hey shawn…you are right
balfour…no matter who started the struggle…german hooligans have been in the pub…and they met english hooligans…even if they would have been hooligans from ghana…or france…it would have ended in a mess…i wonder what might have happened if the people in the pub would have been german fans…

lets not mention Rangers v Celtic then, no history of violence there whatsoever…

Scotland was recently named the most violent country in the developed world, by a UN report, ahead of England (and even the U.S.)… no hooligans whatsoever up there then…

OK, I’m done! ha ha

yes thats true, so whats your point? it has nothing to do with football? hooligans are everywhere. look at english clubs in the 1980’s, banned from all european because of football hooligans. look at the major foobal tournmaments england have been invoved in over the last 16 years. in each ocassion english football fans have been arrested for fighting. thats a fact. yes there are holligans up here but they do not take it abroad. we stand together and support our team. if we win we win, if we lose we lose. our reaction is exactly the same. scottish fans do not riot or provoke violence. thats the diffrence. celtic and rangers fans who hate each other at ibrox and parkhead will sing scotland songs abroad and have a good time with fans of other nations, regardless of who they are. if you new anything about scotland or scottish football then you would know this. also i am not a fan of celtic or rangers. i couldn’t care less about them or their fans actually. i am in fact a dundee man so there, but you have no idea who they are as you do not know anything about scottish football life. ok, i’m done! ha ha (how mature eh)

As a man who has known sir balfour for many a year oncew again i have to agree with the true gentlemans words. If the english want to talk about derby rivalry ie rangers celtic they should remember their own north london rivalry were i seem to remember that the goooners and spurs have had many a violent occasion with each other before and after a game. As for england fans abroad wot do we really expect from a buch of lager swigging five bellies with tattoos from head to toe that think that a pool cue is a weapon and not actually a accessory to a sport. So wot did u expect from the germans for them to go running to the police going please sir he called me a nasty name. No your morons got the response they wanted a fight it is just sad that u think your big enough to start a fight but not big enough to take the responsibility for it

i couldn’t agree with you more brian34..
…*sigh….

Hooligans aren’t just an English problem. It’s an international problem. Check out this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12646650/ They may be picking on the Germans, but the Dutch, Polish and Ukrainians are all mentioned in there too. I can’t defend the idea, I think it ruins the sport. There’s no other sport that you have to be careful leaving the staidum in case you get a bottle/chair thrown at you. I guess that’s the pay off. Oh an I think it’s great that the Scottish have managed to keep their hooliganinsm at home. I wish all the other countries with these problems could learn from this.

The pay off fo Football being the most passoinate sport in the world. I missed that bit, sorry!

its good to see them mighty england humilated the conquering ecuador 1-0, we were just merely playing with them like a cat would with a three legged mice,its good to see that we havent played a decent team in the world cup yet, just an ageing swedan team who we simply let have the ball in the 2nd half.

I can’t wait for the world cup winners parade back in London,its good to see portugal have players suspended and christiano ronaldo possibly injured,so an easy peasy lemon squeezy job ahead of us.we’ll show big phil he was wrong to turn down the england job and have the right sidekick in the former trophies coming out of their arses middlesbrough man steve mclaren.who wants a world cup winner anyway.

Ive got stuck into england world cup fever,its good to see us english are giving the germans and police a good kicking in the streets of their big cities, they tried to invade us nearly 70 years ago,so we’ve invaded them.

why is it every tournament there are english fans rioting,even in euro 96 in their own backyard they were rioting in london.

i predict england to loose their nerve and bottle again and loose on a penalty shootout to germany in the final.

Once again Mr Dodds you deal with the cold hard facts in a way that highlights exactly the state english football and its hooliganism problem. I couldnt agree more with you. With regards to this Mr dodds you are a completely right. your behaviour is your responsibility and the england fans should do well to remember this.

last nights result for england is not something i would be entirely happy about if i was a supporter of this nation in question. England were lucky not to be 2-0 down in the first half for a start. once again even a small team like ecuador can exspose englands defensive vulnerability. Better teams such as brazil, portugal, spain, argentina would have punished england and sent them out in the first plane home last night. Scrapping past ecuador 1-0 is not something from which many positives can be drawn. i fear for england should against portugal, who are full of world class players with the ability to punish defensive errors. Then again i couldn’t care less if england win, though i will be suprised if they somehow manage to beat portugal.

Kiss my arse, I’ve plenty of family in Scotland, and it’s full of the most moronic, knife-wielding thigs on the face of the earth!

There are plenty of decent Scots too, but don’t try and tell me that the Glasgow estates etc aren’t filled with absolute maniacs who would knife ME on the street just for having an English accent.

Let’s not start giving the world a bullshit impression of what Scottish culture is really like, eh. More civilised than England my arse!

Now, now, Scotland is civilised. So there’s no need for that language. Don’t you have all the kiddie fiddlers? (And the highest number of reported racial crimes). ……What’s the difference between a yoghurt pot and England? The yoghurt pot, left long enough would grow a civilised society!

Ha ha ha, whatever Balfour.

I’m suprised mate, really, even the most patriotic Scot would have to agree there is a certain percentage of your population that make Begbie from Trainspotting look like Father Christmas…

And once you get onto the darker side of Rangers & Celtic, and their links with Protestant verses Catholic secterianism, not just in Scotland but in Ireland, too, well excuse me if I prefer any number of London derbys to that sitution!

I’ve seen enough of this, lads.

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