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Sunday, June 27, 2010

The case for video technology

Firstly one must say that England thoroughly deserved to lose to Germany yesterday, we were utterly woeful almost to a man. The one man to come out of the game with some credit was David James who pulled off a series of fine saves. The reasons for England's failure are many, in my opinion a big reason is the lack of tricky technical players available because of our overly physical and clogging

England-Germany and same old tired hypocrisy

It's a big game no doubt, but recent games have favoured England and I have a slight feeling that this Germany side is more than a tad overrated. It will be tight but England must have a decent chance of winning. Rooney's lack of fitness is a concern, maybe it would be wise to stick Joe Cole in if Rooney's fitness is not 100%, Defoe should continue up front as he is our only striker who has that

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Excitement builds and cheating set to continue

With the knock out stages starting today there is certainly a bit more tension in the air, personally I really enjoy the do or die nature of the knock out phase. I haven't managed to catch all the games, if I were unemployed I am sure I would have, but from what I've seen there has been some decent football and some real surprises. Italy going out was a great moment, I despise their negative

Monday, June 21, 2010

Koscielny and the case for videos becomes concrete

So it appears Laurent Koscielny is close to signing. He can score:He can tackle:And he can also get sent off for cynical fouls, interestingly here it was on a certain Mr Chamakh!It seems likely to happen, so maybe I've jumped the gun, who knows. Meanwhile the World Cup grumbles on and FIFA look more stupid by the day foir refusing to introduce video technology in assisting referees. Brazil -

Thursday, June 17, 2010

One line rants and musings

Why at world cup time does every Tom, Dick and Harry feel the need to pretend to be a footballing expert and comment on things about which they know sod all?Why do so many idiots seem to think that cup competition are always won by the best side, by their nature knock out competitions are very random and luck always plays a massive part.Why have FIFA changed the ball yet again? Is it because

Sunday, June 13, 2010

The problem with England

The media make it very hard for England, the expectations are ridiculous and as Alan Shearer said today, they see things in only black and white, England are either awesome or completely useless. Watching last night's game and trying to be objective, England really weren't bad, they were by far the better side, the USA were far poorer. Capello is by far the best manager England have had for some

Saturday, June 12, 2010

World cup thoughts and other musings

So the World Cup is underway, it's pretty exciting overall but I can't say I'm that inspired by England for a number of reasons. Firstly most of our players are utter c*nts and secondly we are about as entertaining as Garth Crooks is intelligent. I am sure I am not the only one who has difficulty getting behind the likes of Terry, Gerrard and Cole, they are nothing but scum. If that makes me

Sunday, June 6, 2010

All talk and no action

One gets the feeling that Barcelona are making a hell of a lot of noise because there is not much to back it up. For all Laporta's talk there is no money, and for all his noise he may well be losing his job shortly. Laporta's recent comments make him appear an even more repugnant c*nt than previously imagined:"It's a price that we consider to be his market value. Arsenal have rejected it. Now