ENGLAND AT WORLD CUP

A fantastic display from England last night against the timid Croats. Ive great real hope for World Cup 2010.

NO Regret wrote: A fantastic display from England last night against the timid Croats. Ive great real hope for World Cup 2010.

Hooray - pages and pages of Cheryl Cole and Co living it up in South Africa, can't wait. 5 goals and still bored me to tears (obviously loving my man, Eduardo's goal)

Long gone are the days of 86, 90 and 96 before the women took over!

Club all the way.

What a bizarre statement.

You cant win with some peoples mentality

I doubt Fabio will let any of the wags come along this time (more then any other time......)

went to see them play on saturday and was amazed at some of the crowd leaving 20 minutes early,, obviously booking the early flights for S.A.

its one on one

They are looking like a good team, only weakness is too many dodgy goalkeepers. I mean Ben Foster come on!

en-GER-land

Quarter final. Semi final at best.Although i wouldn't be surprised if they fuck up monumentally and even go out at the group stage.

Just read on Football 365 that one of Ian Wrights "big opinions" was that Jermaine Defoe was the out and out goalscorer that England desperately need. After Wayne Rooney has banged in nine in this campaign, two ahead of his nearest rival.

Ian Wright

Speaking of which, nice to see My Shaun play his way out of World Cup contention this week. No doubt we'll have the usual xenophobic reaction from Wright when England dont win the World Cup next year, no doubt solely because My Shaun wasnt selected.

Oh yeah. Boring England. Played 8. Won 8. Goals for 31. Goals against 5.

Shocking!

The Teacher wrote: What a bizarre statement.

Why's that big man?

International football doesn't interest me, and watching England, despite the stats, i personally find boring. No right or wrong, guess it's what turns you on and England don't for me. Simple. I can't stand the wag culture that comes with the England team in tournaments - pages of wives and girlfriends dancing on tables and camera shots during games of them all sitting there touching their lip gloss up in the crowd. That again is a personal opinion.

For me, this WAG culture has really surfaced since the late 90s (probably posh and becks)and in the days where i used to travel all over to watch England - it certainlly was not something that was high profile as it is in todays football.

It probably doesn't help that I dislike the majority of the England squad as well, again, personal opinion, but I find it hard to get excited about any of the Chelsea players, for example, who I loath - bit like how you feel about Ian Wright, and how you and I feel about each other - you can't just start liking someone if you can't stand them and what they stand for or what they are. That's how it is.

And all my life, Arsenal has always been my priority where football is concerened, way before watching England and i'd rather watch Arsenal play football (or Barnet and Whetstone Wanderes)over an England game any day. Watching my club is what football is about for me.

Again, my life, my opinion, my turn on and fuck all to do with you!

Chip on shoulder or wot!

NO Regret wrote: Chip on shoulder or wot!

What chip? Because England don't interest me and I prefer watching my club? I call it a preference, not a chip.

79 order wrote: went to see them play on saturday and was amazed at some of the crowd leaving 20 minutes early,, obviously booking the early flights for S.A.

Obviously booking the flights before the Scots take all the window seats..

Oh,no...Sorry my mistake

Well just to mix chips with preferences,, pompey e mailed me to say i had been given preference on booking trips to south Africa FOR THE 2010 WORLD CUP,, yes stay in a comfortable hotel, flights included and face value match tickets,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,PRICES ,, start at,,,£3999 , choke,, i nearly did on me chips,, thats the next 8 seasons at pompey,, pub for me im afraid.

I aint no hooligan

Bonzette wrote:

The Teacher wrote: What a bizarre statement.

Why's that big man?

International football doesn't interest me, and watching England, despite the stats, i personally find boring. No right or wrong, guess it's what turns you on and England don't for me. Simple. I can't stand the wag culture that comes with the England team in tournaments - pages of wives and girlfriends dancing on tables and camera shots during games of them all sitting there touching their lip gloss up in the crowd. That again is a personal opinion.

For me, this WAG culture has really surfaced since the late 90s (probably posh and becks)and in the days where i used to travel all over to watch England - it certainlly was not something that was high profile as it is in todays football.

It probably doesn't help that I dislike the majority of the England squad as well, again, personal opinion, but I find it hard to get excited about any of the Chelsea players, for example, who I loath - bit like how you feel about Ian Wright, and how you and I feel about each other - you can't just start liking someone if you can't stand them and what they stand for or what they are. That's how it is.

And all my life, Arsenal has always been my priority where football is concerened, way before watching England and i'd rather watch Arsenal play football (or Barnet and Whetstone Wanderes)over an England game any day. Watching my club is what football is about for me.

Again, my life, my opinion, my turn on and fuck all to do with you!

Why the fuck did you watch it then?

ShugZV wrote: Ye's will get fucked when you play someone decent. Like always.

I hope Engerland get to the semi's then get fucked, just to wipe the smugness off yer ever growing condescending fat fuckin faces.

Will the England fans never learn?

I also hope they get a good fucking kicking when they start their traditional rioting.

Nothing quite like a bitter pretend jock!

The Teacher wrote:

Bonzette wrote:

The Teacher wrote: What a bizarre statement.

Why's that big man?

International football doesn't interest me, and watching England, despite the stats, i personally find boring. No right or wrong, guess it's what turns you on and England don't for me. Simple. I can't stand the wag culture that comes with the England team in tournaments - pages of wives and girlfriends dancing on tables and camera shots during games of them all sitting there touching their lip gloss up in the crowd. That again is a personal opinion.

For me, this WAG culture has really surfaced since the late 90s (probably posh and becks)and in the days where i used to travel all over to watch England - it certainlly was not something that was high profile as it is in todays football.

It probably doesn't help that I dislike the majority of the England squad as well, again, personal opinion, but I find it hard to get excited about any of the Chelsea players, for example, who I loath - bit like how you feel about Ian Wright, and how you and I feel about each other - you can't just start liking someone if you can't stand them and what they stand for or what they are. That's how it is.

And all my life, Arsenal has always been my priority where football is concerened, way before watching England and i'd rather watch Arsenal play football (or Barnet and Whetstone Wanderes)over an England game any day. Watching my club is what football is about for me.

Again, my life, my opinion, my turn on and fuck all to do with you!

Why the fuck did you watch it then?

I didn't! xxxxxxx

Bonzette wrote: 5 goals and still bored me to tears (obviously loving my man, Eduardo's goal)

This would kind of imply you did.

Id be more than happy if England made the semi's. All Ill say is weve got a decent chance of doing well, but so have about a dozen other teams.

I actually enjoyed the Euro 2008 more because England werent there. There was no stress and could appreciate watching the other teams more.

But come 2010 I will have the blinkers on and have blind faith that England can do better than 2002 and 2006.

And (as everyone keeps saying on this site) I dont give a fuck what anyone else says.

The Teacher wrote:

ShugZV wrote: Ye's will get fucked when you play someone decent. Like always.

I hope Engerland get to the semi's then get fucked, just to wipe the smugness off yer ever growing condescending fat fuckin faces.

Will the England fans never learn?

I also hope they get a good fucking kicking when they start their traditional rioting.

Nothing quite like a bitter pretend jock!

I always thought Shug was a Plastic Paddy.

Ger Boy wrote:

The Teacher wrote:

ShugZV wrote: Ye's will get fucked when you play someone decent. Like always.

I hope Engerland get to the semi's then get fucked, just to wipe the smugness off yer ever growing condescending fat fuckin faces.

Will the England fans never learn?

I also hope they get a good fucking kicking when they start their traditional rioting.

Nothing quite like a bitter pretend jock!

I always thought Shug was a Plastic Paddy.

As a Celtic fan he could be anything!

Ger Boy wrote: They are looking like a good team, only weakness is too many dodgy goalkeepers. I mean Ben Foster come on!

en-GER-land

Fuck the huns!

The Teacher wrote: Oh yeah. Boring England. Played 8. Won 8. Goals for 31. Goals against 5.

Shocking!

My works team wouldve qualified out yer group and we're an over 30's team

and we wouldnt have lost as many goals

ShugZV wrote:

Ger Boy wrote:

The Teacher wrote:

ShugZV wrote: Ye's will get fucked when you play someone decent. Like always.

I hope Engerland get to the semi's then get fucked, just to wipe the smugness off yer ever growing condescending fat fuckin faces.

Will the England fans never learn?

I also hope they get a good fucking kicking when they start their traditional rioting.

Nothing quite like a bitter pretend jock!

I always thought Shug was a Plastic Paddy.

Coming from two of the most fucked up characters on here? I know ma history and where I come from.

First off we've got Tory Boy, who if leant any further to the right he'd be a proper hun, the kind you probably goad when chanting about world wars rather than the football.....if ye've ever been to an Engerland game. Wouldnae surprise me if you had a tattoo of Engerland spelt wrong on yer left arse cheek with Thatcher's face on the right.

As for Gerboy, is this the same character who admitted on a slanging thread with a Hibs fan that he was a Scotland AND Engerland fan? Now that is fucked up.

Baheids.

I knwo your accent and where you come from!

I don't know about England getting to the semi-finals, but this little heated debate has certainly given me a semi-on.

My own contribution is.....much like Bonz, although I've always been a club-before-country man, my youthful enthusiasm for the international game has been on the wane for a while now. The whole WAG thing doesn't concern me (or at least not in the way it does Bonz!), but as you get older and wiser it's difficult not to get bored by the whole flags-on-cars-and-in windows bullshit, not to mention the inevitable gnashing of teeth and national temper-tantrums when we get beaten by a better side. All a bit pathetic, frankly: I used to enjoy going out to the pub to watch Scotland internationals in Aberdeen - there was rarely any real expectation, and the Scots seem to be able to accept defeat without smashing thing up. If only we were that civilized down here.

Having said that, and even though I also loathe most of the squad, England were genuinely impressive the other night. I still think this is another false dawn, but the hype has certainly begun in earnest and it's not going to stop for a long time yet.

Still recall England arriving home after being knocked out of euro 2004 and Victoria Beckham waving to the England fans who had come to welcome home the England PLAYERS. What a sad, pitiful pathetic woman that she thought the fans wanted to see her. I was flabbergasted that the WAGS were allowed to go the 2006 World Cup.

I see Scotland fans still think it's England fans that say England can win the World Cup. It's the media that says that , not the fans.