England V Northern Ireland

[upsidedownwalrus]

is all I can say

 

[ruffneck23]

in all truth i congratulate NI welol done lads , we didn deserve fuk

 

[Balbi]

yeah, fair play norn iron. even i gave up on england when the first sub was made.

fucking rubbish.

sanchez is a geeeeennius

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

in all truth i congratulate NI welol done lads , we didn deserve fuk

Agreed. The only way to win the group now is to beat both Austria and Poland at home. can't see that happening, unfortunately.

 

[editor]

England "stuffed" (c) Hollis by Northern Ireland!

Who would have thought of it?!

Great result NI!

 

[Flashman]

ROFLMAO

Where's Hollis and all those others that were saying that England weren't crap,and that they beat Wales and it doesnt matter how much by???

We tried telling you in the Weslh forum that you were crap if you couldnt beat us without the help of a fluke deflection and now NI have proved us correct.OK so you may qualify but what fun iots gonna be when you play the big boys.

Ha Ha Ha

No credit to the Six Counties boys then? Good grief, what a bitter view.
Poor from England, I've had my doubts since the Brazil Semi, and they continue.
"Systems" can be blamed, but the players are big enough and good enough to sort it on the pitch; Gerrard is a joke at this level, Lampard doesn't look in form and Rooney is out of position and trying to hit people.

Well done Six Counties though, ten men behind the ball and looking for the break, super finish from the fellow.

Now then, who will we get in the play-offs?

 

[1927]

Wales still playing and you still seem more concerned at how England are doing. Thats even funnier

How would you know my level of concern for Wales tonight,there wasn't a thread on the subject so I didnt post.
End of!

 

[Balbi]

god we're as bad as cymru

scotland are better

ah well, at least we're not THAT rubbish....oh yes we are.

 

[William of Walworth]

High Grade SHITE!!!!!!!

Congrats to all Northern Irelanders

<agrees with Loki through ultra-gritted teeth >

I only saw the second half -- were England as bad in the first?

Second half, England were terrible

Pile of shite.

I fucking hate footy anyway**

<swigs beer>

<rolls joint>

<heads for other areas of Urban 75 >

**last wheeled that one out the last time I saw Oxford lose, sometime back in March ... never thought I'd have to use it after an England match ...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Actually we can still avoid the playoffs if we win the last two games...

 

[Stoi]

Hope all the N Ireland fans have the night of their lives. These nights tend to be few and far between, but when they come are truly magic!

Apparently even if England are 2nd you will still qualify as best second place, probably.

 

[Harold Hill]

Well deserved. N Ireland wanted it more and justice was done. If Eriksson doesn't realise now who plays best where hes never gonna know.

 

[districtline]

wow, i still can't believe it. northern ireland!

has sven ever did anything good, seriously? the squad is better than in many many years but the results are shite.

 

[Pot-Bellied Pig]

No plan, he had no plan. Even the players didn't have a clue what the fuck was going on...where was Rooney actually playing ? You take Lampard off ? Why? I think he's got to go....sorry if you fuck up a team like that and especially after Denmark...then you have lost it. You cannot have results like this in qualifying and expect to go on and win anything.

 

[Balbi]

sanchez giving a fantastic interview 'not me that has the credit, the players'

none of the 'we took positives from the game'

'small nation in world football to beat a high class team, their best team on close enough their own patch. amazing'

 

[steeplejack]

 

[Jo/Joe]

Well done Ni, but what a poor, heartless display by England. Gerard worldclass? Lampard needs a break. Cole was shit and let Healy in. The gameplan looked like another Beckham propaganda piece, which has been done before. What a waste. They don't deserve a world cup place.

Why fuck around with formations at this stage in competitive games?

 

[revol68]

oh it's fucking sweet.

we out played youse in the second half, the thru ball chip for the goal was world class and Healys run was timed to perfection (anyone says he was offside needs to have a wee look at Cole and Ferdinand), the finish was top drawer as well.

england once again show themselves incapable of any creativity or movement.
As for Rooney being on the left wing, well to be honest until the 80th minute i thought he'd been substituted, he never got a touch.

 

[Jibby!]

not bothered reading any of this yet...

just wanted to say, as an england fan, i have been laughing my bollocks off ever since that goal went in.

superb entertainment

6-0-6 might actually be worth listening to tonite

 

[JTG]

**last wheeled that one out the last time I saw Oxford lose, sometime back in March ... never thought I'd have to use it after an England match ...

I thought you watched Oxford on a regular basis?

 

[Jo/Joe]

there was no offside about it, just slack defending.

 

[magneze]

Fair play to Northern Ireland.

England were poor.

What I can't understand is that after one bad result (Denmark) we appear to have completely thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Sven (and possibly some of the senior players) appear to have panicked and fucked with a system that the players knew and that had worked well in the past.

Serious questions need to be asked of a supposed "top coach" who panics in this way after a single bad result.

 

[Paul Marsh]

England were awful - no passion, no shape, no creativity.

Awful.

 

[Shanksy]

Couldnt Blair have signed N.I, over to the Republic with 5 mins to go or something to make the territory non-existant and making the game void!?

Wheres the beer!

 

[Error Gorilla]

At the end I actually wanted Northern Ireland to win. If England had got something from the game at the death it would have been a crime. Immense credit goes to Sanchez and his team; what a remarkable performance from them.

And Rooney swearing at Beckham, the referee, linesman, fourth official, McLaren and Ferdinand; anyone for cricket?

 

[Epico]

I'm English....

..but I had a small sum on N.Ireland winning...

So I'm alright.

 

[Shanksy]

Yeah, I just hope England have a good start tot he cricket tommorow to ease the pain, to make my mind off things.

Fair play to the 6 counties though.

 

[Harold Hill]

How would you know my level of concern for Wales tonight,there wasn't a thread on the subject so I didnt post.
End of!

You could have started one if you wanted saskia.

But that would have meant less time to watch England hoping they lose

 

[fishfingerer]

After the republic's miserable performance that more than made my night.

 

[Flashman]

Hope all the N Ireland fans have the night of their lives. These nights tend to be few and far between, but when they come are truly magic!

Apparently even if England are 2nd you will still qualify as best second place, probably.

Fucking right, party for the rest of the week Six Counties boys and girls. What support they had the neet, and really they deserved at least a draw tonight.

Still reckon England will make the Semi's again come Germany, all this will be forgotten come then.

That's all we are though, "Semi boys"; flacid at the most crucial moment, and I'm quite happy about it, we have a decent-ish record in major tourney's and that's fair enough, fuck wankers like Paddy Barclay (a Scot ffs) who thinks we have a divine right to win it "with this fabulous group of players"; for fucks sake in the '70s we had a fabulous group of players, how many tourney's did we qualify for?

I don't see many better teams out there having said that, technically, but when it comes to it we will collapse, as per, put folding money on the cunt; semi's at best and that's all we're good for.