Gotta be a sweaty
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I really hope Modric & Co or Belgium (in the finals) beat this English side. Although I wish for the Spurs lads to do well, the English meltdown will be hilarious. I also fear this is the last chance for GOAT Dembélé, Toby and SuperJan and and not for the likes of Dele, Dier, Trippier and Kane. Many more chances will come for them I am certain. England is, after all, a superpower in international football. Just look at the mighty nations they have beaten in qualification and tournament.
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Why does it matter brate?
Wow. Is this RAWK? Never stumble upon a more easily offended bunch of people in my life.![]()
I really hope Modric & Co or Belgium (in the finals) beat this English side. Although I wish for the Spurs lads to do well, the English meltdown will be hilarious. I also fear this is the last chance for GOAT Dembélé, Toby and SuperJan and and not for the likes of Dele, Dier, Trippier and Kane. Many more chances will come for them I am certain. England is, after all, a superpower in international football. Just look at the mighty nations they have beaten in qualification and tournament.
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Judging by the responses here 52 years of hurt really have something to it, huh? God bless you.
Judging by the responses here 52 years of hurt really have something to it, huh? God bless you.
Give your head a wobble and get over yourself. Go and have a cup of tea and some time for reflection. Then re-read the posts you have typed out. You'll be a little embarrassed.
Judging by the responses here 52 years of hurt really have something to it, huh? God bless you.
Show me where I said that.LOL, So the Manager of England who has guided this team, the most inexperienced and 2nd youngest side in the competition, to a semi-final of the World Cup is utterly shit then? I mean why oh why does he pick him? He knows absolutely fuck all about football, doesn't he? Why no derision towards him for selecting him?
(Completely unrelated, so feel free to skip over it has the potential to be boring, so apologies but I use this story to try to explain how a player can be effective in a team, because it is a TEAM GAME. I going to use an example from a Sunday League team I used to run with some mates.
We had a mate who was built like a brick shithouse, he was a PT instructor in the Royal Marines, he couldn't play football, he had never played it before in his life and at the age of 26 he played for the first time as our Centre Forward. I kid you not he couldn't kick a ball, you could put the ball on the penalty spot with no 'keeper and he will still miss, think of a 5yr old kicking a ball in your back garden, this was him.
But his instructions were simple, chase after the ball, get there before the defenders, don't let a defender touch the ball. He would run for 90mins, he battered and bullied the defence. We still had the problem that once he had beaten the defenders, he couldn't pass for shit. So we would send in 2 players behind him to pick up 2nd ball opportunities to counter-press. We won the League four years in a row, during which time he scored 1 goal (he played every single game), we were top goal scores (2nd season scored double the amount of goals to the team who was next best scorers).