Brazil vs England
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Corax
Luke 5:16
Wut? Jenas has had 8 EPL appearances this season out of 12 games. Him and Huddle have been vying for the AMC slot.
Agree that Cole's a better player, but Capello's made it pretty clear that people need to be playing if they're gonna get selected. Cole's only just come back from injury.
Corax
Luke 5:16
I didn't realise he was eligible for Brazil.
kained&able
Here for the football.
Fair enough, not really noticed him and any game i have fully watched he has been on the bench.
dave
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
you wouldn´t notice Jenas though would ya. It´s like having an invisible version of Ray Parlour in your team.
souljacker
innit
Naaaahhhh........
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Yay, for it being on terrestrial, boo for it being ITV. They better not cut to adverts during the only goal of the game - again.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Alas, all we can do is dream of what might have been 
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
And the hip-hop headlines niche is certainly a criminally overlooked market. One would be mad not to really.
Mad.
Mad.
Isn't it around about this point in the season before a tournament that England tend to produce a good result in a meaningless friendly and all and sundry start proclaiming we're going to win the bugger?
It's our best chance to win it in years
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Nope, that was 2006, and we cocked it. Right up. All the way up.
Hmm, hard to say this is a worse chance til we see who's fit 
i think we've got a much better array of strikers if they're all fit, this time around, and the climate in South Africa will, at last, be good for the English game. Most tournaments it's so hot that England are buggered before they even start.
Who was there in 2006 that won't be this time?
i think we've got a much better array of strikers if they're all fit, this time around, and the climate in South Africa will, at last, be good for the English game. Most tournaments it's so hot that England are buggered before they even start.
Who was there in 2006 that won't be this time?
all a usually dyed in the wool england optimist i can't say i'm very confident, especially when you look at the midfield options available. i think fabio will go for milner/carrick/barry/swp and i can see us giving the ball away quite a bit and not getting it back for long periods.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Rio Ferdinand...Hmm, hard to say this is a worse chance til we see who's fit
i think we've got a much better array of strikers if they're all fit, this time around, and the climate in South Africa will, at last, be good for the English game. Most tournaments it's so hot that England are buggered before they even start.
Who was there in 2006 that won't be this time?
Or 2002, really. Look back at that tournament and it was basically a clear run for us if we could've held onto that lead against Brazil. Which, of course, we would never've done in a million fucking years.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Yeah, I do seem to remember thinking the draw had been kind, though I couldn't remember if that was '02 or '06.
Hmm, my mate who lived in Japan said months before that tourney that basically we had no chance because of the weather.
South Africa's the first time a tournament will be played in the sort of climate that our players like, around 20 degrees, and the tempo will be fast - when I watched the Confederations cup i thought well this will suit our players really well. The USA are basically a poor man's England and they got to the final.
2002 was a nasty draw. It was 2006 that was easy til we got to the quarters.
First time except all the Euro tournaments we've done shit in. We are basically shit.
It's true though, Japanese summer is exceptional cos of the humidity.
Yeah but we had a nasty group draw in 02. Sven did well to get us out of that group - I remember reading it and thinking we're totally fucked, didn't expect us to make the knockouts. then we beat a quite handy Denmark team 3-0 which was impressive imo. We were never going to beat Brazil in that heat
Hmm, most of mainland europe still gets pretty hot. Last one in a coolish climate was probably 92
Yep, a bogey side, our biggest rivals and a handy african side, I thought we'd finish third
Yeah, but how much hotter is it at the end of june/start of july than it was in May when the season was still running or it is throughout August when we start up again? I'd say they could handle it, definitely, just seems like an excuse to me over and over and over again. Who likes playing in mad heat, anyway?! And, yet, some team always wins the things...
By contrast, 2006 we had Trinidad, Paraguay and Sweden and really made heavy work of the first two...
