England National football team thread

[Dr. Pepper]

Spurs seem to be doing a Bordeaux. As soon as Blanc was linked with France they completely bottled the league.

 

[ste_mc_efc]

Spurs seem to be doing a Bordeaux. As soon as Blanc was linked with France they completely bottled the league.

again spurs should have won today. Away to chelsea. where they haven't won in about 7000 attempts. but got unlucky.

But yeh they have been effected by the redknapp speculation, despite playing okay for the majority of the game since capello left.

 

[War]

What if England could get Redknapp as head coach and Hodgson as his deputy?

 

[puddleduck]

Then the FA wouldn't have any money left to pay themselves.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Glen Hoddle has declared his interest in the England job on a caretaker basis. Personally, I think that's great news and his interest should be taken seriously - he has done the job before and did it very well indeed - we all know the only reason we didn't progress further in France '98 was the Beckham sending off.

 

[puddleduck]

Also the only reason he didn't carry on managing was the fact he is a mental headcase who said people were disabled as a result of misdemeanours in past lives...

 

[barmyarmy]

Which is no more crazy than most religious beliefs. More the issue is what has he done in management terms in the past 14 years?

 

[puddleduck]

He actually started a pretty cool football academy thing that I don't know enough about, but think the idea was it takes players who have been dropped by clubs and looks to work on them and find them clubs. Someone else will probably know more.

Oh, which in answer to your question, is nothing

 

[ste_mc_efc]

He actually started a pretty cool football academy thing that I don't know enough about, but think the idea was it takes players who have been dropped by clubs and looks to work on them and find them clubs. Someone else will probably know more.

Oh, which in answer to your question, is nothing

yeh.

they basically bought out a spainish lower league team when they went bust (think it was Eclhe, or something, but can't remember)

which oddly saw a squad of largely British players playing for a spainish lower league side. they were doing okay about 2-3 years ago but i haven't heard anything since


Edit.
Jerez Industrial were team, and the deal ended last june when they didn't repay their loans.

 

[War]

Alexander Netherton: The new golden generation - ESPN Soccernet

 

[War]

Peter Crouch backed for Euro 2012 by Stoke colleagues | Mail Online

No doubt he is playing well, but in Rooney's absence for the first two games, I just can't see him working well in a 4-3-3 formation which England will have to play.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Me and my mate were discussing this today during the Arsenal game and I know he was a disaster at Liverpool, but Roy Hodgson did a great job with Inter Milan and - more importantly - he was very good with the Swiss National side. That means he can do the International thing - we don't know if 'our 'Arry' can. That said, his confidence won't be at a good level after the Liverpool disaster. And I'd still not disregard Hoddle. OK, he's done sod-all in football for years, but look at it this way: he's done the job before, he's sure to have learned from his mistakes and keep his peculiar beliefs to himself, and could he really do worse than anyone else?

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Peter Crouch backed for Euro 2012 by Stoke colleagues | Mail Online

No doubt he is playing well, but in Rooney's absence for the first two games, I just can't see him working well in a 4-3-3 formation which England will have to play.

See, for me the trouble with Crouch is whenever he plays, England revert to long-ball. And long ball isn't going to cut it against Spain, Germany, Holland et al.

 

[barmyarmy]

It's a bit like England being the number one test team...

 

[puddleduck]

Spot on about the problem with Crouch. It's totally not his fault, Spurs used to do it. Instead of knocking it about, we'd just hit it early to Crouch. He's perfectly able to work it around in tight spaces. [cliche] He's got a good touch for a big man [/cliche].

 

[ste_mc_efc]

Spot on about the problem with Crouch. It's totally not his fault, Spurs used to do it. Instead of knocking it about, we'd just hit it early to Crouch. He's perfectly able to work it around in tight spaces. [cliche] He's got a good touch for a big man [/cliche].

I've always hated that cliche. With the exception of john fashnu most "big men" all have a good touch.

ferguson, quinn, drogba whoever it is, if you're used a target man you have a good touch. You develop it young having to work on ambitious hoofs up field. It makes perfect sense for big men to have a good touch. in fact it makes more sense for them to have a good touch than a shorter pacy striker who runs on to balls played in behind/over the top.