World Cup confession
Okay, it's time to 'fess ... tonight was the first time I actually got to sit down and watch England at work. Previously when I made disparaging remarks about the England performance against Trinidad and Tobago (or was it Paraguay?) I did so on the basis of a radio commentary, having been cloistered in the office for the duration.
After watching 90 minutes of England live, uninterrupted and without any distractions I have to say (again) "Boy are England crap, can we play you in the next round?"
Sadly the way the groups work we won't play England, at least until and unless we get through the tournament's pace setters and form team.
England are still crap. Crap particularly at defending set pieces and taking set pieces and feeding the ball into Wayne Rooney. Were it not for Joe Cole, the vastly unpopular Owen Hargreaves and the vastly vast Peter Crouch England tonight would have found themselves up Smelly Creek without any means of propulsion (and in a leaky vessel to boot). Even the introduction of Steven Gerrard did little to steady what by the time he came on looked like a Sunday afternoon shambles. Still he was at the near post to clear off the line when called upon to do so.
A half fit Michael Owen's been carted off on a stretcher, Rio's come off because something hurt slightly and Wayne spent the twenty minutes after he came off putting his boots on so that he could take them off and hurl them away in disgust. Give the lad a dummy.
John Terry isn't as sound as he likes to think he is, some bloke called Sol Campbell came on to replace Rio, Jamie Carragher looked reasonably solid (what an accolade) and Ashley Cole looked fragrant. The two mid field show ponies looked way over priced and right up in England's goal Robinson made James look like an attractive keeping option.
At half time I speculated to someone that Ecuador had thrown the game against Germany to ensure they'd face England. Now I'm certain FIFA issued the pre-kick off warning about match throwing to the wrong team in the group.
After watching 90 minutes of England live, uninterrupted and without any distractions I have to say (again) "Boy are England crap, can we play you in the next round?"
Sadly the way the groups work we won't play England, at least until and unless we get through the tournament's pace setters and form team.
England are still crap. Crap particularly at defending set pieces and taking set pieces and feeding the ball into Wayne Rooney. Were it not for Joe Cole, the vastly unpopular Owen Hargreaves and the vastly vast Peter Crouch England tonight would have found themselves up Smelly Creek without any means of propulsion (and in a leaky vessel to boot). Even the introduction of Steven Gerrard did little to steady what by the time he came on looked like a Sunday afternoon shambles. Still he was at the near post to clear off the line when called upon to do so.
A half fit Michael Owen's been carted off on a stretcher, Rio's come off because something hurt slightly and Wayne spent the twenty minutes after he came off putting his boots on so that he could take them off and hurl them away in disgust. Give the lad a dummy.
John Terry isn't as sound as he likes to think he is, some bloke called Sol Campbell came on to replace Rio, Jamie Carragher looked reasonably solid (what an accolade) and Ashley Cole looked fragrant. The two mid field show ponies looked way over priced and right up in England's goal Robinson made James look like an attractive keeping option.
At half time I speculated to someone that Ecuador had thrown the game against Germany to ensure they'd face England. Now I'm certain FIFA issued the pre-kick off warning about match throwing to the wrong team in the group.
posted by Enyo @ 10:40 pm
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