The England excuse thread.

[upsidedownwalrus]

or....
england are not the team the press wnat everyone to believe...?

yeh thats more like it..
cant wait to see england getting a lesson against argentina,brazil or germany

The scores from the last few games I can think of against the teams you mention:

England 0 Argentina 0 Feb 2000 (I think)
Argentina 0 England 1 WC 2002
Argentina 2 England 3 November 2005

Germany 0 England 1 EC 2000
England 0 Germany 1 WCQ 2000
Germany 1 England 5 September 2001

Brazil 1 England 1 May 2000
Brazil 2 England 1 WC 2002

Hardly a convincing demonstration that any of them are going to 'give us a lesson', now is it? And do you seriously think that Paraguay game was the best we can play? If so, you quite clearly don't watch much football.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

We will raise our game when we play the better teams. I am convinced of that.

 

[magneze]

Isn't it!
Very un-German.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/5071688.stm

They're closing the roof for the game today...

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Why not ask a Scotsman

It's yer accent... it had me confused

 

[Numbers]

How are Ireland doing?

We're practising for the next one.. we'll be ready by then.

It's yer accent... it had me confused

I sound canadian allegedly.

 

[fishfingerer]

Distracted by bints.

 

[zed]

Are fucking useless.

 

[magneze]

Lulling the competition into a false sense of security.

 

[Harold Hill]

cant wait to see england getting a lesson against argentina,brazil or germany

(makes mental note)

 

[Harold Hill]

The scores from the last few games I can think of against the teams you mention:

England 0 Argentina 0 Feb 2000 (I think)
Argentina 0 England 1 WC 2002
Argentina 2 England 3 November 2005

Germany 0 England 1 EC 2000
England 0 Germany 1 WCQ 2000
Germany 1 England 5 September 2001

Brazil 1 England 1 May 2000
Brazil 2 England 1 WC 2002

Hardly a convincing demonstration that any of them are going to 'give us a lesson', now is it? And do you seriously think that Paraguay game was the best we can play? If so, you quite clearly don't watch much football.

Argentina can't beat us in 90 minutes without cheating.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Argentina can't beat us in 90 minutes without cheating.

You can't beat Trinidad and Tobago in 90 minutes without cheating.

 

[Harold Hill]

You can't beat Trinidad and Tobago in 90 minutes without cheating.

Except we did.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Except we did.

Except you didn't, unless it's suddenly become legal to grab a handful of the defender's hair when you're going for a header

 

[Harold Hill]

Except you didn't, unless it's suddenly become legal to grab a handful of the defender's hair when you're going for a header

Did I imagine Gerrards goal then?

 

[Brockway]

I'd say the worst diver, and therefore biggest cheat, in the World Cup so far is England's very own castrato - ickle Joey Cole.

 

[Harold Hill]

An England player? What a shocker.

 

[Flashman]

Joe is really our only proper diver. Aside from the one the other night (it was a pretty shite challenge to be fair) he's not been up to much mischief as-yet.

 

[Relahni]

I'd say the worst diver, and therefore biggest cheat, in the World Cup so far is England's very own castrato - ickle Joey Cole.

Joe does the swallow, shouts then jumps in the air. That's just in the prematch warm up.

Fucking ****** rat boy ****** cunt.

 

[maximilian ping]

the best excuse by far is "The teams they have been playing aren't good enough and thats why they are playing crap"



so England are merely pretending they are shit!!!

If only Argentina could have been busy pretending they were shit against Serbia they wouldnt have won 6-0, the idiots

 

[sleaterkinney]

Did I imagine Gerrards goal then?

But they had to cheat to get in front in the first place...

 

[Harold Hill]

But they had to cheat to get in front in the first place...

Take Crouchs goal off if you want. Whats the score? Oh, we still won.

And if you play 5-5-0 you deserve to lose a goal that way.

 

[passenger]

its so obvious its the fucking ball innit

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Take Crouchs goal off if you want. Whats the score? Oh, we still won.

And if you play 5-5-0 you deserve to lose a goal that way.

But there's no way of knowing whether Gerrard's goal would have occured had Crouch's goal been chopped off. Really, the amount of playground logic you've displayed since the start of the WC beggars belief

 

[Harold Hill]

But there's no way of knowing whether Gerrard's goal would have occured had Crouch's goal been chopped off. Really, the amount of playground logic you've displayed since the start of the WC beggars belief

Such as what?

We may have scored three.

 

[muser]

We may have scored none had terry not cleared off the line and Sven never made those substitutions. Funny that.

 

[Harold Hill]

We may have scored none had terry not cleared off the line and Sven never made those substitutions. Funny that.

Not really that funny.

T&T got what they deserved for their style of football.

 

[steveo87]

We're actaullly shite?

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Such as what?

We may have scored three.

Yes, you might have, we'll never know. However the original statement was that you couldn't beat T&T without cheating, and guess what, you cheated against T&T.

 

[jammer]

Yes, you might have, we'll never know. However the original statement was that you couldn't beat T&T without cheating, and guess what, you cheated against T&T.

and garragher handled the ball against sweden too..
lets just over look that eh john motson?

 

[Harold Hill]

Yes, you might have, we'll never know. However the original statement was that you couldn't beat T&T without cheating, and guess what, you cheated against T&T.

No really comparable to the Argentina one seeing as we've only played once...ever.