Football: WORLD CUP 06 and close season/transfer discussion.

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:34 pm 0

So, can we be fairly confident that James won't be Englands number 1 in Germany (should we get there)?

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:36 pm 0

He'll be England's Number 2

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:38 pm 0

A Sky commentator has just described this as "Not a very encouraging defeat"

Tetra Elemental · Post by **Tetra Elemental** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:46 pm 0

Dio wrote:He'll be England's Number 2

He will. He'll still be there. He'll still be there no matter how many crosses he flaps at, no matter how many times he charges out of goal on a suicidal, cross-eyed, fucked up crusade to gather a ball from the feet of a player THREE MILES outside the area! His nickname is Calamity James ffs, and still Sven will pick him. It doesn't matter if his positional sense is on a par with a pork pie, or that he gets down to the ball slower than a ping-pong balll in a bucket of treacle. He will always be there.

Number 2 is so right. He's a steaming, stinking big, fat number 2, corn niblets and all.

Tapeloop · Post by **Tapeloop** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:52 pm 0

Only listening on the radio, but we sound terrible tonight.

Even the first half was rubbish and that was more or less our strongest team (minus Owen).

I missed the half time subs but, James apart, were they really that much worse? (Never been that convinced by Johnson as a right back myself)

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:08 pm 0

Well a match where we lose by 3 goals and in which Gerrard scores an own goal can be cast off as a freak statistical error match

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:08 pm 0

In James' favour, he is probably the best shot-stopper I've seen. Doesn't stop his decisions being consistently average though.

Rev. Stuart Campbell · Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:26 pm 0

Rev. Stuart Campbell wrote:Can we somehow manage to screw it up in the second 45?

The unsurprising answer: "Yes, if we bring on Butterfingers Douglas again". Hey ho.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:43 pm 0

Sven's halftime substitutions must rank as being the worst since that Chelsea champions league semi a couple of seasons back.

I don't think I've seen an England performance that bad in all the time I've been a football fan. Scotland fans should try and catch the 'highlights' if they need a good cheering up.

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:45 pm 0

Rev. Stuart Campbell wrote:
Rev. Stuart Campbell wrote:Can we somehow manage to screw it up in the second 45?
The unsurprising answer: "Yes, if we bring on Butterfingers Douglas again". Hey ho.

Man, that was fucking depressing.

Rev. Stuart Campbell · Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:50 pm 0

For a change, I'm going to go with "Glass half full". I think we've established once and for all who our No.1 keeper is, which is a good thing, and overall that was a much tighter, more controlled performance than I've seen Scotland put in in a good few years. In a competitive match, without all the changes, I'd have fancied us to hold onto the lead.

But yeah, after feeling really positive for 80 minutes, watching that big haddie fluff another speculative punt and chuck the game away was a bit cruel.

funkstar · Post by **funkstar** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:57 pm 0

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:05 pm 0

funkstar wrote:

*sees Location*

Well done!

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:21 am 0

Well, at least my (used to be) local club in France are doing well

Top of Ligue 2.

http://lequipe.fr/Football/CLA_D2.html

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:49 am 0

Yep: congrats to funkstar

England, eh?

Dunno collectively abissmal but I couldn't help but be irked by David James' 'confession' after the game that he hadn't prepared properly.

He's supposed to be a professional, not some part-timer nursing a hangover on a freezing Sunday morning

This smacks of the now infamous statement when he was at Anfield when he allegedly said that his inability to handle crosses was all down to him playing too much on his games console

Boredom apparently.

*gah*