Originally Posted by Submeg:
Yea well thats cause you dont have to win in two different cup sections, first Oceania and then play someone from Africa or Europe to get in...how stupid.
Yes, but you play in the oceania group so that you can beat tonga and samoa 10-nil without breaking a sweat
Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey:
Seriously though, what's wrong with Peter Crouch?
Nothing, he's an OK player. Not brilliant though, and in NO WAY WAHTEVER 16 million quids worth
England as a football team are massively overhyped - We're OK but not great. People seem too easily swept up in the tub-thumping to realise this. Consistently reaching quartes/semis was quite good (not as good as winning, obv, which I would absolutely love, double-obv).
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Originally Posted by Submeg:
Yea well thats cause you dont have to win in two different cup sections, first Oceania and then play someone from Africa or Europe to get in...how stupid.
Oceania?
That's like beating Accrington Stanley and expecting to be in the Champions League final.
As for England not in the Euro Comp this year, it's not all down to the players.
No organisation can do well with poor managers.
That's been us for a long time.
We have had a succession of dodgy managers trying to play all manner of dodgy styles.
When this fails, we then resort to the big boot for the final ten mins and then get knocked out on pens.
(Usually by Germany)
How do you stop English lads playing footy?
Put an England shirt on their backs.
The all play well enough and in the correct way for their club teams.
They are playing against the worlds best in the Premier League and the European Comps and yet fall apart when they play for England.
Peter Crouch was kept on the bench by James Beattie at Southampton.
James Beattie hardly set the world alight in the Premier League.
Says plenty about crouch.
Nearly all his England goals have come against non entitys like Oceania in meaningless friendlies.
Has all the grace of a drunken giraffe on ice in a force ten gale.
When he actually manages to get himself in the same area as the ball from a cross, his height is wasted.
This is because he has all the power and accuracy with his head as a scud missile.
Plus he also looks like Timmy from Southpark.
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