I’m pretty sure that the posts are being flagged because your e-mail address looks like spam or because your IP address is somehow fishy.

You don’t wind up in my spam pile but in my waiting-for-approval pile.

Anyways….

I hope not as this could be an indication that all is not well in the England dressing room.

I haven’t got the game taped so I haven’t seen it again but my impression at the time was that Lampard looked less than happy when the goal celebration took place.

So it’s owen who bites the bullet in the thin red line… there’s always one… poor bugger =/

Robbo was not at fault at all for the second goal – him, Ashley Cole and Hargreaves all waited for Judas, who made a very poor attempt at an overhead clearance and cost us the win.

Yes, I’m a Tottenham fan. But I’m defending our keeper because he did the right thing with that second goal. And I do believe Carrick would have done 328472 times better than Hargreaves. Lennon or Walcott would have done better up front than Crouch.

On the flipside, I hate Chelsea but JoCo was our MOTM. He wasted a few balls with his predictable cut-inside-on-30-yards-and-try-it-with-my-right move, but he generally worked well down the left with his namesake. Now if only they could do that down the right with Lennon and Beckham like they did against T&T…

Owen: You’re exactly right. I didn’t say nearly enough about Sweden’s ferocity. But I wasn’t really focused on them, frankly, for my purposes here. That said, they never stopped clawing their way back in — coming back twice from a goal down in the second half and threatening for many minutes at a time (that last goal came on the end of a string of — what? 4? 5? — corners and set-pieces). Good on ‘em, and if we don’t see ‘em again until the final I’ll be satisfied!

Now on to how wrong you are!

I sort of agree but I think you have fallen into the trap almost all the media are falling into – that the ‘top’ team ought to be soundly beating the ‘underdog’ and that not playing well has nothing to do with the opposition. Sweden was always going to be a tough match – they REALLY didn’t want to lose to England today – more to keep that 38-year record than anything I think. And they were raging mad at the end of the first half – irritated, annoyed and furious (just had to see Ljundberg and Larsson to know that) because they could feel it slipping away. They came out with renewed strength to get an equalizer (probably after a pep talk that pointed out that they had somehow managed to keep out about 12 good England attacks). In contrast Sven undoubtedly said – ’steady as she goes – we can’t afford more injuries or yellow cards’ so they were OK with a draw once Owen was hurt.

Yes Roinson played badly and the defending wasn’t the best. I thought I heard that Ferdinand came out for a knock – a wise decision especially since Campbell could use the match practice.

I was only puzzled by putting Gerrard back in for Rooney – why not Walcott or Downing or Lennon?