Quote: (06-18-2018 02:23 PM)Teedub Wrote:  

The Premier League is the most competitive of the major leagues (the Championship, or second division, in England is second). It's the league with the highest quality throughout the 20 teams.

English teams can't beat Spanish teams in the Champions league or Europa League. Heck they do barely better than Italian teams in these competitions.

Just love the heart Tunisia have shown so far! I hope they can make it through the rest of the match. England being England, as usual....

Mexico world cup preparation and Germany world cup preparation.

You cannot argue with results.

   

England performs as usual so no surprise.

Kane saves them.

Tunisia trying every dirty tactic in the book throughout the entire game but England gets the win in the last minute.

^^^ haha.

In Mexico the media was slamming the team for partying with 30 bitches before the world cup. They beat Germany and now everyone in Mexico is saying that they found the secret formula.

30 more bitches.

Quote: (06-18-2018 03:10 PM)Pancho Wrote:  

^^^ haha.

In Mexico the media was slamming the team for partying with 30 bitches before the world cup. They beat Germany and now everyone in Mexico is saying that they found the secret formula.

30 more bitches.

Maybe that only works when the 30 white knights at the party guarding them are told to "go home".

Quote: (06-18-2018 03:10 PM)Pancho Wrote:  

^^^ haha.

In Mexico the media was slamming the team for partying with 30 bitches before the world cup. They beat Germany and now everyone in Mexico is saying that they found the secret formula.

30 more bitches.

So long as they don't drink then I am all for it.

And Tunisia was not doing a good job. England played lousily. If Tunisia had played like that against Germany, then it would be 5:0.

The solution is obviously to party with 60 girls next time before the game and do it like the Mexicans. For every win - 30 girls more.

Boring, 1 dimensional football from England. Tunisia being the typical foul-until-you-win formula used so well in these tournaments because as usual the referee teams are utter, utter shit.

Whats laughable is they fouled Kane twice in the box on corners and at the last 2 minutes they allow him to be unmarked for a crucial few seconds.

1 dimensional shit teams are like sunday league teams, foul until you win but you need to keep fouling!

Another example that being good on paper, Kane, Ali, Lingaard, Sterling, Henderson, Young, Rushford is not enough.
I am always amazed how England never comes together as a team.

Also looks like that was it for Tunisia, unless they do a miracle against Belgium they're out!

Quote: (06-18-2018 03:10 PM)Pancho Wrote:  

^^^ haha.

In Mexico the media was slamming the team for partying with 30 bitches before the world cup. They beat Germany and now everyone in Mexico is saying that they found the secret formula.

30 more bitches.

I think this was the only time it "got out"...this is nothing new for these tournaments. Brazil does this all the time, there was also a famous case some years ago that after the Romania-Netherland players from both teams ended up in a strip club with multiple escorts (Mutu and VanPersie between them)

So pissed , Last minute goal is so painful.

Every Corner for England is like penalty : 2 goals in 2 corners

Quote: (06-18-2018 03:26 PM)kuqezi Wrote:  

Another example that being good on paper, Kane, Ali, Lingaard, Sterling, Henderson, Young, Rushford is not enough.
I am always amazed how England never comes together as a team.

Also looks like that was it for Tunisia, unless they do a miracle against Belgium they're out!

No offense but I think you and others are being a little pessimistic. I think England played fine for their first match and playing in a swarm of mosquitos. They played way better than Germany who's the odds on favorite. England could have easily shut down and played for the draw but they kept going and Kane pulled it out. But they need to get Sterling out of the line up though.

Interesting match coming up between Serbia and Switzerland, which has a ton of Albanian players and a Bosnian coach! It's like the Balkan wars all over again

Quote: (06-18-2018 03:35 PM)casa-nostra Wrote:  

So pissed , Last minute goal is so painful.

Every Corner for England is like penalty : 2 goals in 2 corners

Tell your team to not belly flop and professionally foul players in the box. You got away with it and it cost you.

Great opening 20, pretty boring for the rest of the game, but I'm optimistic for this young side. If they get a bit of belief they could actually be a pretty good team. I watched the match with my family, had a very good spaghetti bolognese on my lap and a glass of barollo, which made even the most exasperating sequence of sideways and backwards passes extremely bearable. Kane popped up at the end to seal it of course, but we should have been out of site after 20 minutes. Much improvement needed, but I wasn't sure how much I'd be following along with this World Cup until tonight - I'm in for the ride.

I think only Portugal and Spain gave us something significant so far. I don't think England can manage to get quarter final if they keep ineffective passing in the middle of the pitch. They need to feed harry kane

There is zero hype around England this year, l honestly think this could be their year, that said l think Denmark also have a great chance, its probably for the best l don't gamble anymore ha ha

Quote: (06-18-2018 09:12 AM)Labienus Wrote:  

England lol. Their team is as mediocre as it gets, with the exception of Kane.

They don't come close to 1/10th of the talent they had in their golden generation (1998-2006) and even then they won nothing.

The golden generation was a flop, this team today played better than them.

This is a young team, with a few decent players.

Quote: (06-18-2018 02:10 PM)RedPillUK Wrote:  

Quote: (06-18-2018 10:35 AM)Labienus Wrote:  

Quote: (06-18-2018 10:23 AM)RedPillUK Wrote:  

Quote: (06-18-2018 09:12 AM)Labienus Wrote:  

England lol. Their team is as mediocre as it gets, with the exception of Kane.

They don't come close to 1/10th of the talent they had in their golden generation (1998-2006) and even then they won nothing.

Where does that put Canada then?

Canada sucks at football but that's fine, everyone in Canada knows and says it.

The English media overrates English football and their national team constantly and always claims that they are favourite to win the tournament even when they have shitty teams.

How is it fine? It's a huge country yet is consistently worse than teams like Jamaica, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and pretty much everyone else in North/Central America and the Carribean and rarely even makes it to the second round of CONCACAF qualifying. Trinidad and Tobago are a much more accomplished football nation. They rarely even get to play teams like the US and Mexico in competitive games.

Why are Canada so bad at football? You can't say because they play other sports because the US plays other sports but still has an ok team. Any mediocre English player would be a superstar for Canada.

Here are some of the main reasons:

1-The other sports in Canada just don't count. In the US, baseball is about as big as football, which is only a little bigger than hoops. The CFL in Canada is a very distant #2. The MLS is in only 3 cities, and is a bit in a no-man's land, because hardcore ethnic soccer fans in those cities don't take it seriously, it's mainly the domain of 'burb culture, Canadian soccer moms and their grown progeny.

2-The majority of Canadian immigrants are from China and India, countries that are stupendously bad at football (esp. the South Asians). It's not like in France, where you end up with a Zidane or a Pogba, players whose roots are in countries that are even more soccer-crazy than the host country. You have a few Balkans in Toronto or Maghrebans in Montreal, but they're a small tile in the local immigrant mosaic. If there were half a million Yugoslavs in Brampton and 700,000 Algerians in Richmond, you'd have stars playing in Europe and a national team that wouldn't get pushed around by freakin Trinidad or Belize.

3-Suburban culture is a very hostile environment for player and talent development. See the USMNT, which has stagnated for the past 2-3 decades. The world's great soccer nations combine a playground culture with a sophisticated native style along with a structured club culture, countries like Argentina, Brazil or France. In N. America, you have playdates and 7-yr olds who play on teams and waste their time and their parents' time being schlepped across the burbs for a league game. Great for the trophy industry, bad for national football.

Not sure if this was posted here, but this is a great writeup on Lukaku, along with portraits of other leading figures in the tournament, like the aging Egyptian goalie and the Icelandic captain:

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/...ngs-to-say

I'm not a fan of those personal interest stories, which get done to death in olympic coverage for exampe, but those ones above are very interesting and well done.

Quote: (06-18-2018 01:57 PM)Labienus Wrote:  

This England team is so mediocre.

Nothing has changed. Always have been.

Quote: (06-18-2018 09:29 PM)rudebwoy Wrote:  

Quote: (06-18-2018 09:12 AM)Labienus Wrote:  

England lol. Their team is as mediocre as it gets, with the exception of Kane.

They don't come close to 1/10th of the talent they had in their golden generation (1998-2006) and even then they won nothing.

The golden generation was a flop, this team today played better than them.

This is a young team, with a few decent players.

They were saying that about the Spanish Team until they dominated Euros and World Cup. Everyone has short memories.

But I agree England will be lucky to get pass first knockout stage.

Quote: (06-19-2018 12:33 AM)911 Wrote:  

Not sure if this was posted here, but this is a great writeup on Lukaku, along with portraits of other leading figures in the tournament, like the aging Egyptian goalie and the Icelandic captain:

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/...ngs-to-say

I'm not a fan of those personal interest stories, which get done to death in olympic coverage for exampe, but those ones above are very interesting and well done.

Damn, Lukaku's story is as intense as Drogba's

Lukaku is a standup dude.

Shame about his first touch.