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Owen did nothing aswell.
But yeah we're lucky the others are poor,if we get a lead against both of them and then defend like that then Eriksson would need a slap. |
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On a positive note, I was impressed with the performances of Ledley King & Wayne Rooney.
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and that freekick was class but we were still unlucky. No one would've saved that.
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Can always rely on Beckham, Heskey, and Gerrard to mess up.
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Trust me, when you're an Ireland fan you get used to playing against teams much better than yours, and you just can't play like that and expect your luck to hold. It nearly always breaks. Taking off Rooney and Scholes was a bad move. |
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I agree with you, we shouldn't have been in that position in injury time, Heskey was brought on to hold up the ball, not give away freekicks on the edge of the area. And I agree, the substitutions were poor. |
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Couldn't believe how slow they were to chase in after Barthez was hit in the face from Vassell's shot,Vassell himself had just come on and stood still.
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How far out was the Zidane goal and did the keeper even have a chance at it? I'm gonna see it when they put it up on BBC soon.
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Ok Zidane has a free kick in injury time, if anyone has a brain they would have put a player on each post, so if it goes past the keeper then one of them can stop it.
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Thats made my weekend.
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I hate the sitting back in your own box form of defending, ever since the day Davor Suker stuck one in against us in the 7th minute of injury time in a Euro 2000 qualifier, and when we threw away a lead in the last minute against Macedonia in the same group. Fortunately, we learned our lesson. England have to do the same now, or else they'll be fucked when they come up against other quality sides in the knock out stages. |
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Curled into James' right, Zidane's left. James didnt really have a chance. |
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I've always thought that was a stupid idea. Ron Atkinson used to argue for it all the time. |
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By the looks of things, England will have Spain in the Quarter Finals, I'd fancy them if they didn't lapse in concentration when it really matters.
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Its just shitty when stuff like that happens. But i agree with you about having people on the post too. I always cack it when Portsmouth do that. |
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Wanna hear my two cents? Good:
Erickson lost that game for us, Scholes and Rooney were playing well, two of our best players, and he brings on Heskey and Hargreaves, Heskey was hugely to blame for the first goal. James did the right thing for the penalty, blame Stevie Gerrard, what was the dickhead thinking. Lampard should have taken the penatly, sorry to sound bias towards my boys, but Lampard takes them for Chelsea and Beckham isn't the most reliable penalty taker, good save from Barthez though. I called it as being 2-1 to France before the game, if only I had bet on it ![]() |
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I don't think Lampard's penalties are much better either to be honest. Both Beckham and Lampard tend to just smack them from what i've seen.
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Barthez guessed right and pulled off a good save. If I was English, I'd be more inclined to be pissed off at Beckham for playing absolutely shite throughout the match. He's supposed to be one of the best in the world, he looked like a little boy out there.
I'd also be slightly annoyed at Rooney not squaring it for Vassell before that penalty, but he's young and he has big balls. It's good to see. |
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Yeah I have been saying for ages that Rooney is greedy, but if Silvestre hadn't fouled him then he would have been in just as good a position as Vassell, so you cant blame him for that.
It was a good save, but Becks could have hit it further over. |
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It was a good save, but it was the perfect height for him.
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#223 |
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I come on here and I see most of you slagging off England. What the fuck, where's your fucking pride. We played great and were unlucky to lose. It was a great free kick but we got nervous at the end.
I'm proud of everyone of those players who played there hearts out for their country. The fans were great. I'm still shocked at the result, seems like all a blur. France were shite, our defence was great. Now get behind the fucking team. |
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You have to be kidding, we got a 1-0 lead and then sat back for the rest of the game, barely even trying to break. You sit back when you have a comfortable lead.
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Sorry I'm still a bit pissed off and pissed.
I agree it was wrong to sit back that much on a 1-0 lead but we played our hearts out. |
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#226 |
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Owen didn't
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Match is coming back to me more and more.Lol. Was the service there to Owen though? He didn't have a good match, I'm hoping that he wants to prove that he's our best striker and tears apart Henchoz and co. |
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#228 |
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The service would be there if he ever tried losing his marker.
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I haven't had tears in my eyes in ages. I nearly hit some French person at my SU who in front of a bunch of England fans started to wavr his flag and singing songs against us. What a dick, but I suppose I would have done the same if we had won. |
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Just letting you know, if I ever hear Tyldesley say "that night in Lisbon", all hell is gonna break loose
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That was a crazy finish.
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Nice to know I have allies
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Damn Switzerland!
If Croatia can't beat Switzerland, then its got no chance to beat France and England. |
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Croatia did finish 3rd at the 1998 World Cup.
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Yeah Tyldsley said 'Every manager and fan is the country is going to be saying 1-0 to Santini' fucking try and jinx us more you ManYoo supporting twat
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From when they were calling England "the new Lisbon Lions", I wanted them to lose.
Said it before, said it last night to Owen and we'll keep on saying it - Erikkson hasn't got a clue. He is tactically naive. Aside from a double in Italy where he spent over £80 million in one year and nearly killed Lazio, he has done nothing in football. He can't be trusted. Remember whn he accepted the Blackburn job years ago only to go back on his word and bankrupt Lazio instead? Don't care how well they played or how tired they were - If you take off 3 of your best 4 players against arguably the best team in the world, you're gonna pay. Do you think France would sub Henry, Zidane and Trez in the same position? |
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Erikkson reminds me of Ranieri, tactically shit, only time he did anything at Chelsea was after spending over £100million. Also, you saying you said it last night to 'Owen' makes it sound like you mean Michael Owen and not RBF. |
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