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crimson thing
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 18:07 |
I've just come across this description of England's 4 strikers :
"....one rubbish striker, one injured, one unfit and one not allowed to stay up late..."
Wonder which is which? 
Incidentally, I should at least admit that my prediction that England wouldn't score a single goal in the tournament is.....well, I suppose it is almost within the margin of error......... 
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krusty
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 18:51 |
Phil wrote:
Worried about Englands strike force. Would have been good to give Walcott a try. If Owen's crocked, we're in trouble....just want to say though, Hargreaves did really well. Hope some of the England fans will get off his back. |
I agree about Englands strike force but we have the Likes of Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham and J Cole who can get goals from midfield so it's not all bad...  I thought we were quite poor again, we still haven't got out of first gear but we are through with 7 points  I also think you are right about Hargreaves possibly our best player tonight?? I'm looing forward to the Netherlands v Argentina now, hope they don't just settle for a draw.
Edited by krusty - June 20 2006 at 19:34
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 18:58 |
Joe Cole was great! I've always rated him as a good player and I felt he should have been in the first team a lot earlier than he has been.
I think out midfield is solid, so there are no issues there. Our strike force (force?) isn't too good now that Owen's been injured. If we play 5 in midfield and 1 up front, I cannot see us being too productive on the goals front.
The choice is now... do we play Rooney up front or in a more attacking midfield role, or, do we play Crouch up front, or in an attacking midfield role?
The other option is to drop Crouch and stick up Rooney on his own and having 5 in midfield.
We could put Hargreaves in a defensive midfield role, with Cole and Beckham on the wings. Gerrard and Lampard can then play in the middle of midfield. I am also thinking maybe Cole could be put in a more attacking midfield role, but then we're stuck for a left sided player...
We should beat Ecuador, but we need to be very cautious.
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King of Loss
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Posted: June 20 2006 at 21:35 |
Many question Hargreaves' role in the English lineup, but I think he's a good defensive midfielder, but he would not smart if I was Sven, because of the 4-4-2.
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 02:45 |
again England got exactly what they wanted, they won't have to play Germany yet! some of the play was rather panicky and muddled - surely they didn't let that last goal in deliberately to force a draw.....did they?.....would they??
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martinprog77
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 03:10 |
i hope argentina wins tomorrow agains holland.is going to be a very good game.the only thing that bothers me is that everybody is talking a lot of good things about argentina [best team ,best goal of the word cup, etc] and the real thing is that we didnt win anything yet ,but we are doing a good job.
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martinprog77
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 03:25 |
btw it is my imagination or ''el apache '' tevez have a haircut that looks like maradona
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 03:49 |
"Well, fling another blonde on the barbi and call me sven"
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Tony R
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 05:37 |
mystic fred wrote:
again England got exactly what they wanted, they won't have to play Germany yet! some of the play was rather panicky and muddled - surely they didn't let that last goal in deliberately to force a draw.....did they?.....would they?? |
Well win or draw they would have finished top,only defeat would have paired them with Germany.
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 06:28 |
Some predictions. Portugal 1 Mexico 0 Holland 2 Argentina 2
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Dalezilla
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 08:49 |
I'll second those.
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NutterAlert
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 08:54 |
Latvia 2 Wales 1
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Logos
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 09:07 |
Owen is out for up to 5 months.
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 09:15 |
I hope the Argentina-Holland match will be a clash as it announces.My money's on Argentina.
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Ricochet
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 09:16 |
Logos wrote:
Owen is out for up to 5 months.
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How queery was that?!
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 09:18 |
^errhh??
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Logos
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 09:31 |
^  Yeah - it was pretty bizarre. Extremely unlucky! Seemed like a harmless situation but you never know what can happen in football.
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Posted: June 21 2006 at 09:31 |
Rico,
Are you a carbon based llife form or a random word generator?
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