Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[E*F*4L]

How rude Alan!! Rooney Rooney Rooney!!!

He is great for Man Utd although not good for England lol.

Rubbish match really.

Ima just glad I now know that Capello is actually Welsh

what me rude :shock:

i'm not the one who has spent thousands of my own money (less i admit than what Rooney earns in a week) to travel to South Africa to watch that crap, none of the players could even be bothered as for Rooney he hasn't even got the balls or heart to wear the England shirt !

he needs this doing to him

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[yorkieboy]

well at about 60mins in i wanted Algeria to win

i have never liked Rooney, or thought he was any good (i think he is crap)

however

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i appologise in advance for the language.

go & fuck yourself Rooney you overpaid useless wanker :bah:

i hope Slovenia beat England in the next game !

I agree with almost everything you've said except he's not crap. England have got to face up to the problem that we've got world class players in Rooney, Gerrard, Terry, Ferdinand (when playing), Ashley Cole etc. who play nowhere near as well for their country as they do for their team. It's nothing to do with how much they earn, I'm sure they care about their country as much as the average fan does.

[DC]

i kind of understand the fans' fustration, they have payed a lot of money to go there and it was an awful display. but it's hardly like the players were running around with glee, they felt bad enough about their performance without a bunch of fat overweight larger swilling bastards shouting 'booo'. how the fuck is kicking them when they are down going to help them for wednesday? i've never been the biggest fan of rooney but i'd rather have him playing for england than not, he is a class player on form.

i'm an england fan, but i don't have much time for the majority of england fans these days. they expect too much, and turn their back on england legends even. they were gloating and celebrating when news broke through that michael owen would miss the rest of the season after the carling cup final, ending what chance he had of making the plane. that's the fucking thanks he got for contributing 40 goals in 89 games.

and the media wouldn't leave sven alone would they? he dosen't look so bad now compared to fabio 'i have a grudge against joe cole' capello. leaving the one guy on the bench who could of made something happen yesterday and against the states last saturday.

if we fail to get out the group, a part of me will think that some of the england fans got what they deserved.

[E*F*4L]

I agree with almost everything you've said except he's not crap. England have got to face up to the problem that we've got world class players in Rooney, Gerrard, Terry, Ferdinand (when playing), Ashley Cole etc. who play nowhere near as well for their country as they do for their team. It's nothing to do with how much they earn, I'm sure they care about their country as much as the average fan does.

world class ?

none of the players in the England squad are anywhere near as good as, (maybe lampard)

kaka, Xavi, messi, cesar, zambrotta, lahm, ribery, di-maria, sneijder, ronaldo & tevez.

i have said time & again england are not as good as everyone thinks they are, the players are out their to do well for themselves, as individules, they want to see on the back of the sun "rooney won it for england" (etc)

they cannot pass the ball, keep the ball,

they lack skill, pace, heart,

i didn't expect a good performance because they are not good enough, i agree that the media hype it up so much, however you get people like ferdinand saying "we can still win the cup" etc, well we can't.

re DC; you cannot say it's wrong to BOO the team, if kicking them when they are down is wrong when is it right ?

if the players felt bad about their performance, why didn't they do something about it, nobody else can, the manager can't, the fans were singing last night you could even hear them over them vuvezelas, the fans cannot do much more other than run onto the pitch & score themselves for the team.

a manager with balls is whats needed, the team is the same one that sven played with all the players knew they were going to get picked, so they don't even bother to try, the only player that showed any interest last night was barry, the best thing for england football if for them not to get out of the group, as there is fundamental flaws with the team, mainly to do with the players, capello needs to start again from scratch with new younger players & build on it.

[DC]

they did try and do something about it. but sometimes things just don't click together. and use other players? whats he going to do, pick them from the championship? they are the best we have, i watch football week in week out so take my word on that. it's just a tad more difficult when england fans and the media make it out to be a life or death situation everytime they go onto the feild. it's even worse for rooney. they want him to do it all by himself, casting away other players to praise him. how does that make the rest of the side feel?

[Bumble_85]

This is all.

[DarkAngelMJH]

That video is made of awesomeness.

[John]

Come on England. For fucks sake come on.

[-sophie-]

I'm actually watching this! Annoying people in town had vuvuzelas. Hmph.

[John]

Mark Lawrenson: Watching England is sometimes a cure for constipation.

[John]

That was much much better! The score could have been so much more, was a shame they didn't bury the chances, but a win is a win! Shame for Rooney, he is so desperate for a goal, and hopefully he isn't injured now. The changes paid off, moving away from the 4-4-2, and who questioned the decision to start Defoe? Glen Johnson and James Milner were both outstanding, Milner been my Man of the Match. Can we keep the momentum going?

[E*F*4L]

Can we keep the momentum going?

doubt it, England played better but they still weren't that good, Slovenia were very poor, worse than Greece the other day against Argentina.

[John]

In other news, good luck Ghana tonight. I would love it for them to beat the Germans!

[DarkAngelMJH]

Well it's looking like England will be playing Germany Rubbish!

Although Germany haven't been that convincing in this match.

[John]

I remind people of the clip that DC posted a few days ago. Germany 1-5 England. C'mon England. We still believe!

[DC]

"and scholes gets forward, he's got heskey on for the pass. england are in again!! it's emile heskeeyyyy!!.. it's five!!"

[DC]

rolf italy! pure fail.

if we get past germany (probably won't) we'll get a chance to wipe the smile of maradonna's face. it's such a shame he didn't top himself when he was on the coke a few years ago.

That was much much better! The score could have been so much more, was a shame they didn't bury the chances, but a win is a win! Shame for Rooney, he is so desperate for a goal, and hopefully he isn't injured now. The changes paid off, moving away from the 4-4-2, and who questioned the decision to start Defoe? Glen Johnson and James Milner were both outstanding, Milner been my Man of the Match. Can we keep the momentum going?

i'm still hit and miss with defoe. he took his goal really well, but he should of stuck away the chance that just went past the post. however he should start in the next game because he's the closest player we have to a natural goalscorer, which we've been missing since owen. agree with milner. he was crap for the first half an hour, but once his nerves settled he was amazing. i saw this at newcastle, and nobody would believe me when i said 4 years ago that he would end up playing for england. he is probably the natural successor to david beckham on the right hand side.

[AlistairRobb]

if we get past germany (probably won't) we'll get a chance to wipe the smile of maradonna's face. it's such a shame he didn't top himself when he was on the coke a few years ago.

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Hmm, that's a bit in bad taste, he is certinally a character and the game at the moment severlly lacks them.

[DC]

we have jose mourinho for that.

[AlistairRobb]

we have jose mourinho for that.

He is good, admittidly.

[DarkAngelMJH]

Hopefully England will start like they actually want to win and be able to finish instead of just passing the ball to the goalie. *fingers crossed*

[-sophie-]

That was blatantly a goal, blind linesman!

[Jono]

That was blatantly a goal, blind linesman!

[DC]

we were outplayed, should of been a goal but it didn't matter in the end. i'll be supporting scotland from here on out.

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

In the end, goal or not (and it's pretty damn near impossible to deny it IS), the OTHER goals Germany scored meant that it didn't change the end result too much. Now where's that technology like every other sport has to solve disputes like this?

(that's my one and only foray into this thread )