France - England
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- unsexypixel0
you cant sit on a 1 goal lead, not against a team like france, and france played poorly, how often did you see Henry come in from the wing, which is where he scored most of his premiership goals from. France played down the middle and into the english brick wall. Surely the barage of shots on the english goal was a wake up call and time to change the 'gameplan'.
And, ireland didnt have any world class players in the charton days, not one bar maybe a young roy keane. Ireland had no choice but to try and fluke it. England on the other hand....have no excuse, such talent, such waste. But anyway, hopefully it'll make england tougher and make for an interesting tournament.
- BeachBoy0
"Surely the barage of shots on the english goal was a wake up call and time to change the 'gameplan'."
WTF? I cant remember any shots that were threatening - last 3 mins excluding obviously
- uncle_helv0
Two bad mistakes:
Why was Heskey making that sort of challenge, it was only Makelale, not exactly the biggest threat to our goal.Secondly what on earth was going on in Gerrard's head, he could of put the ball anywhere!
I agree with beachboy on all the positives, King looked good and solid alongside Campbell. Our destiny is still in our hands.
C'mon England!
- uncle_helv0
James didn't have a save to make, did he?
- rabattski0
played poorly? to be honest both teams played brilliant. i mean, even my soccer-hating-girlfriend watched and was totally excited and that really says a lot. anyways yeah james had no other option he had to go out or else it would have been a goal anyways. it's just a matter of luck in this case. also both teams played their hearts out. i mean more than 90 minutes full on. there wasn't a moment in the game where it was a bit slow. respect.
- gradiate0
See france in the final...
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- uncle_helv0
Some beautiful work you got there Gradiate.
- unsexypixel0
ok, barage of crosess and pressure, and if it wasnt for the last 2 minutes, and barthez's save, it would have ended out being quite a boring game.
- BeachBoy0
Went on here to cheer myself up, and look who our entry is, geezus
- BeachBoy0
do you watch much football unsexy?
- soda0
they did have a lot of pressure but I thought we were coping with it well. Apart from the 20 minutes in the second half when we had no choice but to sit back and keep it tight. I agree it might of been a good idea to change gameplan but I don't think we were able to. Sometimes you can't dictate the game and we couldn't get hold of the ball so it was keep it tight and try to catch them on the break.
As for world class players I don't think we have as many as we like to think individually.
But as a team, in terms of spirit and commitment this is as good as we get.
Had we tried to play france off the park and go head to head it would of been a duck shoot and we would of been mullered.
We managed to keep Henry quiet for most of the game, Pires was taken off, Viera was wound up and Zidane resorted to long range efforts.
I think it worked well in the end, had the penalty gone in it would of been called a masterstroke.
Instead two mistakes and we are gutted...but once again we contribute to a fascinating game and by far better than any of the other games so far.
- BeachBoy0
well summed up soda - totally agree
- soda0
Sweet jesus Beachboy that's a lovely site... although Ms Latvia is only marginally better than ms england...
- BeachBoy0
isn't she - I think its the eyes! ;)
- unsexypixel0
i watch as much footbal as australian television allows. which is not alot.
- soda0
the smile got me... the sheer look of joy and the wind through 'her' hair.
lovely
- moth0
England are crap at this game.
I think we should retire from it.
Or lower our expectations and then there will be peace on the streets.
- JazX0
ZZ got 'em
- JazX0
England are crap at this game.
I think we should retire from it.
Or lower our expectations and then there will be peace on the streets.
moth
(jun 14 04, 04:35)well, you guys invented it, so you can't. :)
- uncle_helv0
England are crap at this game.
I think we should retire from it.
Or lower our expectations and then there will be peace on the streets.
moth
(jun 14 04, 04:35)------------------------------
Ha ha ha, did you even watch the game!