[xtrslots]

I watched the game. Other than the disallowed goal, looked like England did a find job of fucking it up for themselves

[xLQLRcXh]

i watched and felt that England suffered like italy did, they seemed to be nervous and scared of losing

not cohesive at all, germany were ruthlessly effiicent, i expect if germany can play that way they will win the whole thing

[Dertrioz]

Learn something new, apparently there are hooligans on this forum and we were really nasty to the thin skinned Americans yesterday, alrighty then.
And there was me thinking that it could have probably been seen as rather on the nasty side when an American swore his head off on here at an Englishman because his American friends are more interested in drugs than football

[MidwestMadman]

To Whom it May Concern:

My American brethren, the English like to bust our balls mostly in part due to the reactions you give them. It's not necessarily mean spirited, it's their sense of humor so stop making asses of yourself by taking it personally and flipping out like girls in Jr. High...yes, I saw your note in study hall. (PS: See the bit below about making generalizations when you've not experienced something).

Having said that...

My lovely English friends (and I'll extend this to others as well). Stop making broadstroke generalizations about all of us being fat, stupid, lazy, or not able to understand a simple game like soccer/football. Until you've been here, met a vast majority in person (not online), stop with the generalizing or categorizing because you really don't know and you end up alienating the vast majority of us who do "get it."

Thank you,

BlackCherry

PS: Vamos Uruguay

[xLQLRcXh]

To Whom it May Concern:

My American brethren, the English like to bust our balls mostly in part due to the reactions you give them. It's not necessarily mean spirited, it's their sense of humor so stop making asses of yourself by taking it personally and flipping out like girls in Jr. High...yes, I saw your note in study hall. (PS: See the bit below about making generalizations when you've not experienced something).

Having said that...

My lovely English friends (and I'll extend this to others as well). Stop making broadstroke generalizations about all of us being fat, stupid, lazy, or not able to understand a simple game like soccer/football. Until you've been here, met a vast majority in person (not online), stop with the generalizing or categorizing because you really don't know and you end up alienating the vast majority of us who do "get it."

Thank you,

BlackCherry

PS: Vamos Uruguay

Go Canada Go - Drop the puck

[MidwestMadman]

Go Canada Go - Drop the puck

Amen, brother! Amen!

[Dertrioz]

To Whom it May Concern:

My American brethren, the English like to bust our balls mostly in part due to the reactions you give them. It's not necessarily mean spirited, it's their sense of humor so stop making asses of yourself by taking it personally and flipping out like girls in Jr. High...yes, I saw your note in study hall. (PS: See the bit below about making generalizations when you've not experienced something).

Having said that...

My lovely English friends (and I'll extend this to others as well). Stop making broadstroke generalizations about all of us being fat, stupid, lazy, or not able to understand a simple game like soccer/football. Until you've been here, met a vast majority in person (not online), stop with the generalizing or categorizing because you really don't know and you end up alienating the vast majority of us who do "get it."

Thank you,

BlackCherry

PS: Vamos Uruguay

Thanks for that, didn't realise what was going on. I seemed to have missed the posts calling Americans fat, stupid and lazy, did they get deleted or something because I really cant seem to find them?

[Nashhlkq]

did you even watch the game?.....if you did you'd have seen a ref whos screwed america over a couple in the past right royaly fucking it up......but then being english we get used to bad refereeing

Because he didn't allow the one goal? Sorry, but you guys still would've lost by two even if that one would've counted. I'm not disagreeing that it wasn't a goal, because it was, but the fact is that you all didn't play very well at all. Germany was simply better.

[www.forumsovetov.ru]

Because he didn't allow the one goal? Sorry, but you guys still would've lost by two even if that one would've counted. I'm not disagreeing that it wasn't a goal, because it was, but the fact is that you all didn't play very well at all. Germany was simply better.

right then......england were totally shit,i agree.....there needs to be a huge injection of young legs

now to the germany game.....i'm sure most of the europeans on here will agree with what i'm going to explain,the football following ones anyway

germany's first goal,it was a freak.....you probably wont see another like it in top class football for a few years

the second goal....rank bad marking but a great finish

now then,england pulled a goal back,minutes later lampards shot hit the bar and went a yard over the line,it was one of the best finishes of the tournament...only the ref and his assistant went blind for a second and never saw it...now heres the crux....teams fail or succeed on such things.....if that goal had counted england were on the ascendency,we were the team on the up.....as it was we went into half time 2 - 1 down.....meaning that the longer we went in the second half without scoring the more risks we had to take....germany capitalised on this and hit us on the break twice..thing is..if it had been 2 - 2 the england side could have played a more controlled game......so it was an important decision which might just have changed the eventual outcome.

[avdddcxnelkaxz]

,i agree.....there needs to be a huge injection of young legs

[socialkiiii]

The first goal was down to bad defending, sorry, no two ways about it. How can two (allegedly) very good Centre Halves allow that ball to travel that far, bounce, and then a striker to get in between the two of them to score? Should never happen.

We could bang on about the goal that should have been but never was all day, but the fact of the matter is England were by far the worst side yesterday, Germany outclassed them.

[Nashhlkq]

right then......england were totally shit,i agree.....there needs to be a huge injection of young legs

now to the germany game.....i'm sure most of the europeans on here will agree with what i'm going to explain,the football following ones anyway

germany's first goal,it was a freak.....you probably wont see another like it in top class football for a few years

the second goal....rank bad marking but a great finish

now then,england pulled a goal back,minutes later lampards shot hit the bar and went a yard over the line,it was one of the best finishes of the tournament...only the ref and his assistant went blind for a second and never saw it...now heres the crux....teams fail or succeed on such things.....if that goal had counted england were on the ascendency,we were the team on the up.....as it was we went into half time 2 - 1 down.....meaning that the longer we went in the second half without scoring the more risks we had to take....germany capitalised on this and hit us on the break twice..thing is..if it had been 2 - 2 the england side could have played a more controlled game......so it was an important decision which might just have changed the eventual outcome.

Would've, should've could've. The facts are that England simply got outplayed. They could've overcome adversity, but they didn't. Just because a call doesn't go your way doesn't mean that you give up. The first goal came down to atrocious defending... call it a freak, but they didn't mark their man, and he split two defenders. The second goal was bad defending.

England got screwed out of a goal, but you guys still let two goals go by on bad defending past that as well. Sure, the game could've looked different, but it doesn't change the fact that they simply collapsed defensively. Germany flat outplayed you guys, you can disagree all you want and complain a bad call, but the fact remains that Germany was world's better yesterday.

[socialkiiii]

I think the biggest problem is now the old orthodox 442 formation is outdated, or at least England's style is too inflexible to account for it.

Look around the top teams, Chelsea play 4-4-2 BUT they have Essien, Mikel and Lampard as the Centre Midfielders with Malouda roaming, and Drogba and Anelka up front. Arsenal have 4-3-3, and have done so for a while, we play 4-4-2 sometimes but again it's a flexible thing, and other times we play 4-3-3. And it's well known Barcelona play that way.

Until England truly learn to embrace the very nature of flexibility it will never happen.

[xLQLRcXh]

Would've, should've could've. The facts are that England simply got outplayed. They could've overcome adversity, but they didn't. Just because a call doesn't go your way doesn't mean that you give up. The first goal came down to atrocious defending... call it a freak, but they didn't mark their man, and he split two defenders. The second goal was bad defending.

England got screwed out of a goal, but you guys still let two goals go by on bad defending past that as well. Sure, the game could've looked different, but it doesn't change the fact that they simply collapsed defensively. Germany flat outplayed you guys, you can disagree all you want and complain a bad call, but the fact remains that Germany was world's better yesterday.

have to agree with this, well i dont have to but i do

[U2DnBGFE]

Have to wonder where England will go from here.

It's obvious to me something is rotten with English football, and it's not the manager or coaching staff, because a number of quality managers have come and gone through the England post. And Capello is without doubt the best of all of them yet.

I think football at grassroots has to be restructured, and coaches have to be retrained. Because what kids are being taught now is not technical ability. I find it deeply worrying that int the England team, only Lampard was prepared to take shots with his weeker foot. I find it even more worrying that 90% of the players seem to lack the simplest of footballing skills: ball contol.

Beckenbaur called us a kick and rush team, frankly, I think that's doing us too much of a service, it implies that there is movement up front.

[www.forumsovetov.ru]

the problem we have is the premier league.....with the exception of a few clubs theres too much fear....off the top of my head i can only think of arsenal,united and villa who are bringing young flair players through the ranks on a regular basis.if you look around you'll see no gascoines,waddles or hoddles...with the money at stake most wont take the chance on a young player who plies his trade in league 2,preferring to sign an established player from abroad...take chelsea for instance,for all of they're trophies they still grind results out

[Dertrioz]

the problem we have is the premier league.....with the exception of a few clubs theres too much fear....off the top of my head i can only think of arsenal,united and villa who are bringing young flair players through the ranks on a regular basis.if you look around you'll see no gascoines,waddles or hoddles...with the money at stake most wont take the chance on a young player who plies his trade in league 2,preferring to sign an established player from abroad...take chelsea for instance,for all of they're trophies they still grind results out

*cough cough* West Ham! They have only brought through about half the England players from the academy, you know!

[www.forumsovetov.ru]

*cough cough* West Ham! They have only brought through about half the England players from the academy, you know!

and look whats happening,we need a messi or kaka to appear from somewhere......things are in desperate need of new talented players

[Nashhlkq]

That's why I think that US Soccer is really on the rise. We're finding good domestic players and bringing them up through MLS, letting them transfer to some of the bigger clubs overseas, and then bringing them back for them to bring a higher talent level to our top league here. We didn't perform quite as well as I would've hoped, but I saw some really good talent during the cup... especially from guys like Feilhaber, Bradley, and Jozy.

I also liked the line adaptation in the second half of the Ghana game... really put them on their heels for a good chunk of the second half. The result obviously wasn't what I was hoping for, but the move to a 4-2-3-1 seemed to work well against the Ghanaian defense. But I think that mostly worked because Feilhaber is a really creative midfielder and was able to make a lot of things happen.

[U2DnBGFE]

and look whats happening,we need a messi or kaka to appear from somewhere......things are in desperate need of new talented players

My arguement against that would be that Germany don't have a Messi or Kaka, and they seemed fine without, they have 11 players who are technically good and play at a high level.
Sweinsteiger (sp?) controlled the play and was comfortable on the ball in a way that no English player has been since Bobby Charlton.


Edit: Also, another question, why all of a sudden is Rooney crap? He's got a lot of stick this tournament, and maybe he didn't play as well as he can, but he had that deftness of touch and control that was obviously superior to all around him.