World Cup and England

[Dustydog]

Oh dear.
They tried so hard and actually played very well but got pipped at the post. Now we are on the the back foot and may be coming home sooner than later.

Sack Phil Neville. The worst commentary I have ever listened to.
Watching paint dry is more interesting.

 

[Thingy]

Sack Phil Neville. The worst commentary I have ever listened to.

Im with you on that one, couldnt tell what he was actually saying, he just mumbled through the whole thing.

Being a Manchester lad, born bred and buttered, and being red through and through, Im not partial to hearing my beloved team slated, but I have to be totally honest, Rooney was absolute rubbish. No excuse that he was playing out of position, hes done it for United to great effect over the years. For me, he didnt look like his heart was in it.

 

[andyp1]

I agree on getting rid of Phil Neville and can we include Adrian chiles on itv

Drop Rooney and let's hope we can get a result against Uruguay

I follow Southend Utd so know little about football !

 

[Parksy]

Rooney certainly looked to be struggling but to be fair he made the goal. Maybe the heat took it's toll on him, he should be used to playing out of position now but he left gaps in our defence when he went forward and he wasn't quick enough to track back.
I almost fell asleep trying to listen to Phil Neville's commentary, there were more interesting and intelligent comments from blokes watching down at the pub and they were only ordering pork scratchings :dry:
Footballers almost always talk in a robotic monotone during post match interviews, but Neville reached a new low point. Moaning Midlander Adrian Chiles is like a black cloud over what should be a marvelous festival of football, but what can you expect from a die hard Baggies supporter?

 

[andyp1]

How Adrian Chiles gets any TV presenting job is a complete mystery to me !

 

[Thingy]

I think there is far worse than Neville and Chiles to comment on. The two things for me, outstandingly bad are one, the standard of refereeing, particularly in the early games, and that damn goal line technology. Add in the blatant play acting and its situation normal.
High spot has to be Van Persies first goal.

 

[Parksy]

The play acting, or to put it more accurately, the cheating is endemic throughout the game nowadays.
Football is no longer the game that I watched with my Dad, TV pundits encourage the diving by pontificating on there being 'contact' when a spoiled overgrown schoolkid is rolling around in simulated agony after the merest brush with a rival player.
You have to wonder how some of them would fare in their local Tesco if an old lady touched them with her shopping trolley, would the footballer dive screaming into the frozen oven chips? :woohoo:

 

[Thingy]

In my lifetime, I have seen many serious injuries and can assure the world of one point, seriously injured people are usually quiet and they certainly dont roll around the floor. How to spot a cheat in one easy lesson. It really is time they showed some spirit and stopped the playacting. It sickens me, it really does.

What beggars belief is that if we can see it, so can the governing bodies, yet nothing is done to stamp it out.

 

[Gozza]

You have to wonder how some of them would fare in their local Tesco if an old lady touched them with her shopping trolley, would the footballer dive screaming into the frozen oven chips? :woohoo:

Now that I would pay to see!

 

[JonnyG]

England aren't coming home early and I'm not an England ..as for players rolling about well when a kid is a bratt you surely have to question their upbringing and when so called sportsman's faking a foul one has to question the total football establishment .have never herd of a premier league manager or any other top league manager take action against their playing for faking a foul..never herd a top manager nor countrymen say that's not sport when their team scores an illegal goal at the top level either....

 

[Parksy]

Thats true Jonny G, modern day footballers are signed up as schoolboys and never enter the harsh world of adulthood like everybody else has to.
This could be why they behave like spoiled brats on and in some cases off the pitch, they never became adults.
Football managers condone cheating and while many fans don't complain when their side scores illegally, many more like me no longer pay over inflated prices at the turnstiles to watch a game that is unrecogniseable from the game that we grew up watching.

 

[Dustydog]

What a pathetic performance from overpaid and over rated so called footballers.
Sadly the worst since 1958.
The only consolation is that Italy and Spain are going home too.
I don't blame Roy Hodgson. He had very little to work with from the start.
I had a small side bet that the top three would be Brazil Italy and Holland.
Got that wrong!

 

[chrisbee1]

On a positive note most shops are selling flags at half price, could save you a few bob for 23rd April. B)

 

[Dustydog]

On a positive note most shops are selling flags at half price, could save you a few bob for 23rd April. B)

Were you thinking of Qatar :silly:

 

[chrisbee1]

St. George's day

 

[DeliDave_]

It is somewhat embaraasing being surrounded by French and Dutch caravanners the flag is at halfmast sadly there are no Spanish caravanners here to share the pain