Hate to say it but Beckham has changed the game.

Teacher said:

2-2 england

I am following this on the Internet. Some sort of Game Tracker on Yahoo. The last comment posted by the reporters was: "Something of a lull descends over the game, which you'd have to say is probably a good thing."

Guess you have to be there.

This doesn't sound good:

GOOOAAALLL!!! CROATIA ARE IN FRONT AGAIN!!! Mladen Patric smashes an absolute blockbuster into the right corner from the edge of the box!! Stunning strike, and England are on their way out!!

RodeoSchro said:

Oh, this wasn't right:

"McClaren has another sip of water. Good to be adequately hydrated when you get lynched..."

Come on Andorra!

We dont deserve to go!
Mclaren is a waste of space

RodeoSchro said:

Soooo mean

It's over. My sympathies to the England fans.

what a mess

anael said:

Will he jump or wait to be pushed?

ellieadore said:

Should appoint a world class manager, not a chap who hasnt even won a european trophy at domestic level.

Oh shit, I had no idea they were playing today.

Boo!

Electrostar said:

Mclaren needs to come to my house now, we have some stuff to talk over with him

England 2 - 3 Croatia

thank fuck...if any UK team deserved to go it was Scotland.

muirdo said:

Typical fucking Scot

Sweden 2 - 1 Latvia. We're qualified!

We should have won by more against such a crappy team though. Sloppy unfocused play and lack of creativity in the offense. We have to step it up a few notches next year.

England were truly awful and deserve what they got, (or did not get)

hit and hope, route 1 rubbish. aimless...brainless
sack the Coach
and the idiots that appointed him in the first place

I was more impressed with Northern Island in this qualifying campaign. Do you know how desperate that is?

as for the real deal come summer
I'll be punting the Czech's to the last 4

foal30 said:

He's refusing to quit, but surely he'll go. At least we won't have to wait another 7 or 8 months. Let's get Shearer in.

If these English keepers were really so good and vying for the #1 shirt, they'd surely never all have been allowed to leave Liverpool to go to lesser clubs.

James
Kirkland
Carson

Maybe now this so called "golden generation" can fuck off and England can slowly make a new team. One without any Lampard (shit), Gerrard (I give up on him), and Beckham. Those once keys players I imagine are finished now. Lampard has played shit for England for years now LOL.


As usual, we were arrogent enough that when we got the game back to a draw, we sat back, assuming that was just enough to see off the game. WE ALWAYS DO THIS. We take the easiest route through the game, and get lazy. Havn't England learnt that by now, coasting for the minumum required often makes for dull games, and SHOCK, upsets like today (the 3rd goal from Croatia for example was classic England falling asleep, arrogent enough to assume, that hanging on for a draw, was enough to see off an international team, that is infact, better then us).

England have got to get rid of that mindset that they can coast through every game. And as has previously been said, long passes to the centre box, OFTEN DO NOT WORK. Clever passes yes. Short passes, yes, runs down the wing, yes, they work. Long silly "hit and hopes" to the centre area, no they very often get headed away, end of.

thesexofit said:

I agree with nearly all of this, unfortunately, but one thing - if not Gerrard and Lampard, two of the most consistent performers in the Premiership over the last 3 or 4 years, then who?

Who?

anael said:

i apologise.