desperate times? watch england play , & Mclaren manage
/engage rant mode

has been edited to get rid of libellious stuff and swearwords

I have never been so embarrased watching a football game. the lack of cohesion was desperate. our players go on about passion and pride and power, but THIS IS NOT ENOUGH. our game is stuck, up to the arses in the 70's

We employed a f*cking CLOWN as a manager, with zero experience, what did we really think was going to happen. Our players have zero technical skills, the only two that do are beckham and crouch, and what do they get? the bench.

Whilst murdoch (thats right name check sue me)and co on sky has being hyping england , our squad quality has been crumbling faster the fanny crust on an old person hving sex for the first time in seventeen years.

i repeat, we emplyed a grinning, media savvy RONALD MCDONALD

lets employ a god manager with technical nous with good tactics
Mclaren managed middlesboro ffs!

This loss is a semi blessing in disguise. Lets shake things up , before things get really desperate, ie we become worse than scotland....

....even that looks likely, lets wait for the new rankings as we are currently 3 places above em.

Desperate times indeed
(papa bouba slap your face, Wed 21 Nov 2007, 22:47, 14 replies)

couldnt agree more
Its a sad day when we have to rely on players from the MLS for the only decent move in the whole match.

Sack the lot of em or at least stop paying them unless they win. Take a few years off International football. Let them back when they're ready. I dunno, send em to a remote nepalese ninja training camp (like batman) for a couple of years deep learning.

Not thought that through tho.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Wed 21 Nov 2007, 22:50, closed)

Football is shit.
/controversial blog.
(THIRTY-TWO - Sputnik -, Wed 21 Nov 2007, 23:11, closed)

OK - here's the thing...
Papa is right...Also...

English football is mired in a total trench of money-oriented bollocks. Not one player played as part of a cohesive unit - they are all too bothered about putting a few million on their own personal values. There is absolutely zero passion for the national game and why should there be? Being an England player is cock-diddley-all to their personal salaries. It is all a pretense.

This is a FULL blessing and nuts to the disguise. We did not deserve to get through...simple as that. We were consistantly poor and deserve what we got.

At least Scotland play as a team - watching their effort made me even more disgusted in my country's piss-poor efforts. Yes, McLaren is a gobshite, second rate manager but he can only deal with what he's got - i.e a bunch of lacklustre cock-itches.

Who can we hire? There is nobody...becuase nobody can control the money merry-go-round that is the English game.

There's more to come....but I'm pissed and way too angry so I'm off to bed.

grrrr
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 22 Nov 2007, 0:18, closed)

pooflake
lippi would be purrfect. also you are right about the money thing. the FA pressures mclaren to pick teams so more cans of pepsi can be sold with england players faces slapped all over it and the like. hopefully the money men will leave the england team alone , and we can get back to *shock* playing the best players and not the most marketable ones.

o yeah and sack barwick
(papa bouba slap your face, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 0:23, closed)

someone like lippi or scolari?
the england manager needs to cut through the media circus and drop a few people ... also no chance of mcclaren resigning since he'll get shitloads more £££ if he's sacked ... so a furrner manager with huge bollocks is required or the whole cosy love-in will start again
( writerblock ... embedding disabled by request on, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 0:32, closed)

looks good on the FA...
...for fucking up the scolari hiring. silly twats
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 0:50, closed)

YAY!!!
Sweden beat Latvia...

If only football meant anything to me..
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Thu 22 Nov 2007, 8:29, closed)

YES!
Thank fuck we lost! Now I don't have to deal with another fucking media storm when the tournament comes around!
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 8:50, closed)

Personally being Welsh it's nice to have you all aboard the Loser Trolley :D
We've been keeping you a nice warm seat for years :)

I agree with Pooflake; the way in which Internationals squads are organised for England is comical. All these rich players being dragged from where they are comfortable into a hap-hazard squad and try to blunder their way through the qualifiers. I mean ffs, England have got some of the best players in the world and they just don't work together lol.

It's not often that the Welsh can brag about football though; I think the last time was in 1946. Although we did draw against Germany, which isn't bad.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 8:58, closed)

The definition of desperate
is hoping for An-fucking-dorra to get a last minute equaliser against Russia.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 22 Nov 2007, 9:10, closed)

Reverend
Supremely accurate, In keeping with the QOTW and desperately sad for us all at the same time.

It wasn't the goalkeeping error that cost us the finals. It was a year of underperforming, emotionless mediocrity spearheaded by a tactical amateur of a manager lacking ideas, belief and the support of both his players and the backroom staff.

I would like to call for the creation of a Great Britain tournament next year - consisting of all home nations who haven't made the finals (in other words - all of us). We could call it 'The fucking usless losers trophy'

At least I'd have something to watch next year...

and tuqueboy / writerblock...I always had my doubts about Scolari. Sure, he's an acomplished manager and wouldn't take any pansie-arsed shite from our bunch of delicate doilies, but he had too much of a sniff of mercenary about him. I don't think he would want what was best for the side, he'd go down the Sven line of shagging as many birds as possible over his big stack of FA cash. You could almost see the dollar signs in his eyes when he was being touted last time.

To Jeccy, and my other Welsh, Scottish and Irish friends. For what it's worth - If any of you had got through I would have supported you. It pains me to say bacause I am one of those 'Yay England, fuck everybody else' types, but I am in favour of national pride, performance and plain simple effort. Your teams have it in spades. If pride was rubber, the England team wouldn't have enough to make a flea's flip-flop.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 22 Nov 2007, 9:28, closed)

New "reality" TV suggestion..
"So you think you can Manage?"

Lets get Piers and that objectionable Tosser with a superiority complex.. Simon Cowell? to judge a bunch of wannabe England Managers ... oh... and Ann Robinson (weakest link?)

It's be entertaining.... They know bugger all about football, but at least the tabloid.loving punters would get their fill of bile and venom being directed at football managers...

*goes to hide under a stone again*
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Thu 22 Nov 2007, 9:48, closed)

England
Maybe the markings from the American football game where left to help Beckham orientate himself.

Seriously though, England getting through last night would only have papered over the cracks. This could be the best thing to happen to English football in years if wholesale changes are made from the top at the FA right down to the business end on the pitch.

I was at the Frank Skinner show in Brum last night, the interval lasted for 45 mins during which the second half was shown on big screens. Afterwards he came out and said, "Well at least that's the end of McClaren", see? Positive thinking is what's required!

Skinner also mentioned that every time the Peter Crouch touches the ball, he's amazed it doesn't get a puncture.
( abefroman skating on the thin life of modern life on, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 9:57, closed)

THIRTY-TWO/ Vulcan15
Yay you.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:07, closed)