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How the f is Roy Hodgson the manager of England!!!!!
How the f is Roy Hodgson the manager of England!!!!!
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Roy Hodgson says he will build a ‘better and stronger’ England
Saturday 21 June 2014 22.30 BST It would be harder to build a "worse and shitt1ier" England  |
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"England have fallen to 20th in the latest Fifa world rankings, their lowest position since May 1996."
Well done Woy! |
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England are, at absolute very best, the 7th or 8th most talented team in the world. The void between them and the best teams is too big to be be bridged by any coach's selection and tactics.
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and now he's appointed Wayne Rooney as England captain
..just when it appeared things couldn't get any worse  |
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how is he still england manager.
greg **** the worst english FA chairman ever? |
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DYK*
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Anyone know how many English players started in the first match of the Premier League in 2014? Are the numbers still falling?
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^ I'm doing the analysis of the starting elevens of day 1 of the 2014 Premier League. I'll post the nationalities later.
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Players who started the first match of the season
England__________________87___39.5% France___________________20___9.1% Spain___________________14___6.4% Scotland_________________10___4.5% Ireland__________________8___3.6% Wales___________________8___3.6% Belgium__________________7___3.2% Argentina________________6___2.7% Netherlands______________6___2.7% Brazil___________________4___1.8% Serbia___________________4___1.8% Senegal__________________3___1.4% Algeria__________________2___0.9% Austria__________________2___0.9% Bosnia and Herzegovina___2___0.9% Congo___________________2___0.9% Croatia__________________2___0.9% Denmark__________________2___0.9% Italy___________________2___0.9% Ivory Coast______________2___0.9% Poland___________________2___0.9% Portugal_________________2___0.9% Sweden___________________2___0.9% USA___________________2___0.9% Australia________________1___0.5% Chile___________________1___0.5% Egypt___________________1___0.5% Germany__________________1___0.5% Iceland__________________1___0.5% Jamaica__________________1___0.5% Japan___________________1___0.5% Kenya___________________1___0.5% Mexico___________________1___0.5% Montegnegro______________1___0.5% Morocco__________________1___0.5% New Zealand______________1___0.5% Nigeria__________________1___0.5% Norway___________________1___0.5% Slovakia_________________1___0.5% South Africa_____________1___0.5% South Korea______________1___0.5% Switzerland______________1___0.5% Togo___________________1___0.5% All___________________220___100.0% In 2013 I think England players were ~28% of premier League starters. But most of the England players are in the lower ranked teams Team___________________Players Burnley__________________10 Queens Park Rangers______7 Manchester United________6 West Bromwich Albion_____6 Crystal Palace___________5 Hull City________________5 Liverpool________________5 Southampton______________5 Sunderland_______________5 West Ham United__________5 Aston Villa______________4 Everton__________________4 Leicester City___________4 Tottenham Hotspur________4 Arsenal__________________3 Swansea City_____________3 Chelsea__________________2 Newcastle United_________2 Manchester City__________1 Stoke City_______________1 England players__________87 |
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Players_____________Nationality______________Team
Bentaleb____________Algeria__________________Tottenham Hotspur Mahrez______________Algeria__________________Leicester City Coloccini___________Argentina________________Newcastle United Demichelis _________Argentina________________Manchester City Faurlin ____________Argentina________________Queens Park Rangers Lamela _____________Argentina________________Tottenham Hotspur Speroni_____________Argentina________________Crystal Palace Ulloa ______________Argentina________________Leicester City Jedinak_____________Australia________________Crystal Palace Arnautovic__________Austria__________________Stoke City Weimann ____________Austria__________________Aston Villa Courtois____________Belgium__________________Chelsea de Laet_____________Belgium__________________Leicester City Hazard _____________Belgium__________________Chelsea Kompany ____________Belgium__________________Manchester City Lukaku______________Belgium__________________Everton Mignolet____________Belgium__________________Liverpool Pocognoli___________Belgium__________________West Bromwich Albion Begovic_____________Bosnia and Herzegovina___Stoke City Dzeko ______________Bosnia and Herzegovina___Manchester City Coutinho ___________Brazil___________________Liverpool Fernando ___________Brazil___________________Manchester City Lucas ______________Brazil___________________Liverpool Oscar ______________Brazil___________________Chelsea Sánchez_____________Chile___________________Arsenal Bolasie ____________Congo___________________Crystal Palace Mulumbu_____________Congo___________________West Bromwich Albion Jelavic ____________Croatia__________________Hull City Lovren______________Croatia__________________Liverpool Eriksen_____________Denmark__________________Tottenham Hotspur Schmeichel__________Denmark__________________Leicester City Elmohamady__________Egypt___________________Hull City Agbonlahor _________England__________________Aston Villa Austin______________England__________________Queens Park Rangers Baines______________England__________________Everton Barry ______________England__________________Everton Barton______________England__________________Queens Park Rangers Berahino____________England__________________West Bromwich Albion Bertrand____________England__________________Southampton Blackett ___________England__________________Manchester United Brown ______________England__________________Sunderland Bruce ______________England__________________Hull City Brunt ______________England__________________West Bromwich Albion Cahill______________England__________________Chelsea Campbell ___________England__________________Crystal Palace Cattermole__________England__________________Sunderland Caulker_____________England__________________Queens Park Rangers Chambers ___________England__________________Arsenal Clyne_______________England__________________Southampton Colback_____________England__________________Newcastle United Cole _______________England__________________West Ham United Cresswell___________England__________________West Ham United Dann _______________England__________________Crystal Palace Davies _____________England__________________Hull City Davis _____________England__________________Southampton Dawson _____________England__________________West Bromwich Albion Delph_______________England__________________Aston Villa Dier________________England__________________Tottenham Hotspur Downing_____________England__________________West Ham United Drinkwater _________England__________________Leicester City Duff________________England__________________Burnley Dyer ______________England__________________Swansea City Ferdinand___________England__________________Queens Park Rangers Forster_____________England__________________Southampton Foster______________England__________________West Bromwich Albion Gardner ____________England__________________West Bromwich Albion Gerrard_____________England__________________Liverpool Gibbs ______________England__________________Arsenal Green_______________England__________________Queens Park Rangers Hart________________England__________________Manchester City Heaton______________England__________________Burnley Henderson___________England__________________Liverpool Huddlestone_________England__________________Hull City Ince _______________England__________________Hull City Ings _______________England__________________Burnley Jagielka____________England__________________Everton Johnson_____________England__________________Liverpool Johnson ____________England__________________Sunderland Jones_______________England__________________Manchester United Jones_______________England__________________Burnley Jutkiewicz _________England__________________Burnley Kelly ______________England__________________Crystal Palace Konchesky___________England__________________Leicester City Lennon _____________England__________________Tottenham Hotspur Lingard ____________England__________________Manchester United Livermore___________England__________________Hull City Marney______________England__________________Burnley Mee_________________England__________________Burnley Moore ______________England__________________Leicester City Mutch_______________England__________________Queens Park Rangers Naughton____________England__________________Tottenham Hotspur Noble_______________England__________________West Ham United Nolan_______________England__________________West Ham United Nugent______________England__________________Leicester City Puncheon____________England__________________Crystal Palace Richardson__________England__________________Aston Villa Rodwell ____________England__________________Sunderland Rooney______________England__________________Manchester United Rose________________England__________________Tottenham Hotspur Routledge___________England__________________Swansea City Shackell____________England__________________Burnley Shawcross___________England__________________Stoke City Shelvey ____________England__________________Swansea City Simpson ____________England__________________Queens Park Rangers Smalling____________England__________________Manchester United Sterling____________England__________________Liverpool Stones______________England__________________Everton Sturridge___________England__________________Liverpool Taylor _____________England__________________Burnley Terry_______________England__________________Chelsea Trippier____________England__________________Burnley Ward________________England__________________Crystal Palace Ward-Prowse_________England__________________Southampton Westwood ___________England__________________Aston Villa Wickham_____________England__________________Sunderland Williamson__________England__________________Newcastle United Wilshere ___________England__________________Arsenal Wisdom______________England__________________West Bromwich Albion Young ______________England__________________Manchester United Cabella_____________France___________________Newcastle United Capoue______________France___________________Tottenham Hotspur Cissokho____________France___________________Aston Villa Clichy______________France___________________Manchester City Debuchy_____________France___________________Arsenal Distin______________France___________________Everton Gouffran ___________France___________________Newcastle United Kaboul______________France___________________Tottenham Hotspur Knockaert __________France___________________Leicester City Koscielny___________France___________________Arsenal Lloris______________France___________________Tottenham Hotspur Nasri ______________France___________________Manchester City N'Zogbia ___________France___________________Aston Villa N'Zonzi_____________France___________________Stoke City Remy________________France___________________Queens Park Rangers Riviere ____________France___________________Newcastle United Roberge ____________France___________________Sunderland Sanogo _____________France___________________Arsenal Schneiderlin _______France___________________Southampton Sissoko_____________France___________________Newcastle United Schürrle ___________Germany__________________Chelsea Sigurdsson__________Iceland__________________Swansea City Dunne _____________Ireland__________________Queens Park Rangers Ireland_____________Ireland__________________Stoke City McCarthy____________Ireland__________________Everton McGeady ____________Ireland__________________Everton O'Brien ____________Ireland__________________West Ham United O'Shea______________Ireland__________________Sunderland Whelan _____________Ireland__________________Stoke City Wilson______________Ireland__________________Stoke City Mannone_____________Italy___________________Sunderland Pellè_______________Italy___________________Southampton Bony _______________Ivory Coast______________Swansea City Y Touré_____________Ivory Coast______________Manchester City Morgan______________Jamaica__________________Leicester City Yoshida_____________Japan___________________Southampton Wanyama_____________Kenya___________________Southampton Hernández __________Mexico___________________Manchester United Jovetic ____________Montegnegro______________Manchester City Chamakh ____________Morocco__________________Crystal Palace Anita ______________Netherlands______________Newcastle United Janmaat ____________Netherlands______________Newcastle United Krul________________Netherlands______________Newcastle United Pieters_____________Netherlands______________Stoke City van Aanholt_________Netherlands______________Sunderland Vlaar_______________Netherlands______________Aston Villa Reid________________New Zealand______________West Ham United Anichebe____________Nigeria__________________West Bromwich Albion Hangeland___________Norway___________________Crystal Palace Fabianski___________Poland___________________Swansea City Szczesny____________Poland___________________Arsenal Fonte_______________Portugal_________________Southampton Vaz Te _____________Portugal_________________West Ham United Arfield_____________Scotland_________________Burnley Bardsley____________Scotland_________________Stoke City Dorrans ___________Scotland_________________West Bromwich Albion Fletcher____________Scotland_________________Sunderland Fletcher____________Scotland_________________Manchester United Hutton _____________Scotland_________________Aston Villa McGregor____________Scotland_________________Hull City Naismith____________Scotland_________________Everton Robertson___________Scotland_________________Hull City Snodgrass __________Scotland_________________Hull City Diouf ______________Senegal__________________Stoke City Kouyaté ____________Senegal__________________West Ham United Traore______________Senegal__________________Queens Park Rangers Ivanovic____________Serbia___________________Chelsea Kolarov ____________Serbia___________________Manchester City Matic_______________Serbia___________________Chelsea Tadic ______________Serbia___________________Southampton Skrtel______________Slovakia_________________Liverpool Pienaar ____________South Africa_____________Everton Ki Sung-yueng ______South Korea______________Swansea City Adrián______________Spain___________________West Ham United Amat________________Spain___________________Swansea City Arteta______________Spain___________________Arsenal Azpilicueta_________Spain___________________Chelsea Cazorla ____________Spain___________________Arsenal de Gea______________Spain___________________Manchester United Diego Costa ________Spain___________________Chelsea Fàbregas____________Spain___________________Chelsea Herrera ____________Spain___________________Manchester United Krkic_______________Spain___________________Stoke City Manquillo __________Spain___________________Liverpool Mata________________Spain___________________Manchester United Rangel______________Spain___________________Swansea City Silva ______________Spain___________________Manchester City Larsson_____________Sweden___________________Sunderland Olsson _____________Sweden___________________West Bromwich Albion Senderos____________Switzerland______________Aston Villa Adebayor ___________Togo___________________Tottenham Hotspur Guzan_______________USA___________________Aston Villa Howard______________USA___________________Everton Chester_____________Wales___________________Hull City Collins_____________Wales___________________West Ham United Dummett_____________Wales___________________Newcastle United King________________Wales___________________Leicester City Ledley______________Wales___________________Crystal Palace Ramsey______________Wales___________________Arsenal Taylor 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^ very impressive work mate. One question though...is your telly broke ?
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^I was watching a 1986 World Cup match, Denmark v Scotland, while I was working on that.
The "Danish Dynamite"  team from 1980 to 1992 played some good football. I'm Irish, which makes my work to find out how many English play in the Premier League a bit odd. English football needs to get the finger out or they will be going down the plughole. You can't expect Roy Hodgson to change water into wine. I might even do a bit more digging to see if the 87 England players above have any potential. Baines, Ferdinand, Gerrard, Jagielka, Rooney, Terry in that 87 are not going to do it. |
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Prebejn Eljkaer was my personal favourite....remember have a confident bet on them to beat spain in 86 I think...and butragueno single handedly ripped them apart.
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England have imo less than 30 players available for selection.
Age - old ......... 25 ... exclude players age 29 and over Poor 2012/13 ...... 14 ... exclude West Brom, Aston Villa, Sunderland, Hull narrowly avoided relegation Poor 2013/14 ...... 5 ... exclude Crystal Palace poor start to 2014 Promoted .......... 11 ... exclude Leicester, Burnley, QPR lack top level experience Northern Ireland .. 4 ... exclude Duff (Burnley); Bruce (Hull); Davis (Southampton); Brunt (WBA) all are Northern Ireland (flag looks similar to England on Wiki) Possible .......... 28 ... young players in top or middle Premier league teams. Total players ..... 87 Players___________Team__________________Age_____Comment Chambers __________Arsenal______________19.6___ (Possible) Sterling___________Liverpool____________19.7___ (Possible) Ward-Prowse________Southampton__________19.8___ (Possible) Stones_____________Everton______________20.3___ (Possible) Blackett __________Manchester United____20.4___ (Possible) Dier_______________Tottenham Hotspur____20.6___ (Possible) Lingard ___________Manchester United____21.7___ (Possible) Jones______________Manchester United____22.5___ (Possible) Shelvey ___________Swansea City_________22.5___ (Possible) Wilshere __________Arsenal______________22.7___ (Possible) Clyne_____________Southampton___________23.4___ (Possible) Henderson_________Liverpool_____________24.2___ (Possible) Rose______________Tottenham Hotspur_____24.2___ (Possible) Cresswell__________West Ham United______24.7___ (Possible) Smalling___________Manchester United____24.8___ (Possible) Colback____________Newcastle United_____24.8___ (Possible) Gibbs _____________Arsenal______________24.9___ (Possible) Sturridge___________Liverpool___________25.0___ (Possible) Bertrand___________Southampton__________25.1___ (Possible) Naughton___________Tottenham Hotspur____25.8___ (Possible) Forster_____________Southampton_________26.5___ (Possible) Dyer ______________Swansea City________26.8___ (Possible) Shawcross__________Stoke City___________26.9___ (Possible) Noble *____________West Ham United______27.3___ (Possible) Hart_______________Manchester City______27.4___ (Possible) Lennon ____________Tottenham Hotspur____27.4___ (Possible) Cahill_____________Chelsea______________28.7___ (Possible) Rooney____________Manchester United_____28.8___ (Possible) * reports this week he may play for Ireland |
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The full 87 day 1 Premier League starters of English nationality (actuall included four Northern Ireland in error).
Players___________Team___________Age___Comment Chambers ________Arsenal_______________19.6___ (Possible) Sterling_________Liverpool_____________19.7___ (Possible) Ward-Prowse______Southampton___________19.8___ (Possible) Stones___________Everton_______________20.3___ (Possible) Blackett ________Manchester United_____20.4___ (Possible) Dier_____________Tottenham Hotspur_____20.6___ (Possible) Berahino_________West Bromwich Albion__21.1___Poor 2012/13 Wisdom___________West Bromwich Albion__21.3___Poor 2012/13 Wickham__________Sunderland____________21.4___Poor 2012/13 Moore ___________Leicester City________21.6___Promoted Lingard _________Manchester United_____21.7___ (Possible) Ings ____________Burnley_______________22.1___Promoted Jones____________Manchester United_____22.5___ (Possible) Shelvey _________Swansea City__________22.5___ (Possible) Ince ____________Hull City_____________22.6___Poor 2012/13 Wilshere ________Arsenal_______________22.7___ (Possible) Caulker__________Queens Park Rangers___22.7___Promoted Mutch____________Queens Park Rangers___22.7___Promoted Clyne____________Southampton___________23.4___ (Possible) Rodwell _________Sunderland____________23.5___Poor 2012/13 Trippier_________Burnley_______________23.9___Promoted Henderson________Liverpool_____________24.2___ (Possible) Rose_____________Tottenham Hotspur_____24.2___ (Possible) Dawson __________West Bromwich Albion__24.3___Poor 2012/13 Kelly ___________Crystal Palace________24.3___Poor 2013/14 Westwood ________Aston Villa___________24.4___Poor 2012/13 Drinkwater ______Leicester City________24.5___Promoted Cresswell________West Ham United_______24.7___ (Possible) Delph____________Aston Villa___________24.8___Poor 2012/13 Livermore________Hull City_____________24.8___Poor 2012/13 Ward_____________Crystal Palace________24.8___Poor 2013/14 Smalling_________Manchester United_____24.8___ (Possible) Colback__________Newcastle United______24.8___ (Possible) Gibbs ___________Arsenal_______________24.9___ (Possible) Mee______________Burnley_______________24.9___Promoted Sturridge________Liverpool_____________25.0___ (Possible) Bertrand_________Southampton___________25.1___ (Possible) Austin___________Queens Park Rangers___25.1___Promoted Jutkiewicz ______Burnley_______________25.4___Promoted Naughton_________Tottenham Hotspur_____25.8___ (Possible) Cattermole_______Sunderland____________26.4___Poor 2012/13 Forster__________Southampton___________26.5___ (Possible) Dyer ___________Swansea City__________26.8___ (Possible) Shawcross________Stoke City____________26.9___ (Possible) Campbell ________Crystal Palace________27.0___Poor 2013/14 Johnson _________Sunderland____________27.1___Poor 2012/13 Noble____________West Ham United_______27.3___ (Possible) Hart_____________Manchester City_______27.4___ (Possible) Lennon __________Tottenham Hotspur_____27.4___ (Possible) Dann ____________Crystal Palace________27.5___Poor 2013/14 Simpson _________Queens Park Rangers___27.6___Promoted Huddlestone______Hull City_____________27.7___Poor 2012/13 Gardner _________West Bromwich Albion__27.8___Poor 2012/13 Agbonlahor ______Aston Villa___________27.9___Poor 2012/13 Puncheon_________Crystal Palace________28.2___Poor 2013/14 Heaton___________Burnley_______________28.4___Promoted Cahill___________Chelsea_______________28.7___ (Possible) Rooney___________Manchester United_____28.8___ (Possible) Davies ____________Hull City___________29.0___Age Young ____________Manchester United____29.1___Age Nugent____________Leicester City_______29.3___Age Routledge_________Swansea City_________29.6___Age Baines____________Everton______________29.7___Age Jones_____________Burnley______________29.8___Age Richardson________Aston Villa__________29.9___Age Johnson___________Liverpool____________30.0___Age Downing___________West Ham United______30.1___Age Marney____________Burnley______________30.6___Age Williamson________Newcastle United_____30.8___Age Cole _____________West Ham United______30.9___Age Shackell__________Burnley______________31.0___Age Foster____________West Bromwich Albion_31.4___Age Jagielka__________Everton______________32.0___Age Barton____________Queens Park Rangers__32.0___Age Nolan_____________West Ham United______32.2___Age Taylor ___________Burnley______________32.8___Age Konchesky_________Leicester City_______33.3___Age Barry ____________Everton______________33.5___Age Terry_____________Chelsea______________33.7___Age Gerrard___________Liverpool____________34.2___Age Green_____________Queens Park Rangers__34.6___Age Brown ____________Sunderland___________34.9___Age Ferdinand_________Queens Park Rangers__35.8___Age Duff______________Burnley______________00.0___Northern Ireland Bruce ____________Hull City____________00.0___Northern Ireland Davis ___________Southampton__________00.0___Northern Ireland Brunt ____________West Bromwich Albion_00.0___Northern Ireland |
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Prebejn Eljkaer was my personal favourite....remember have a confident bet on them to beat spain in 86 I think...and butragueno single handedly ripped them apart. It started when Jesper Olsen played a back pass without looking.  |
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another boring display from a boring manager that hasn't got a scooby doo
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Boring is too kind a word mover,depressing that even in a firendly we try to play backwards,sideways and backwards against a pub team.
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50,000 mugs turned up
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been horrible watching england for years....strangely though in hoddles and venables time we didnt look so far behind technically.
now teams like peru equador and chile look better with the ball....thats how times have changed. |
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they are better because they pass and move
usa and lots of similar teams looked better at the world cup until england play at a club pace for the international team we will always perofrm badly. i don't expect us to win a tournament we have no right to but the style of football is rubbish. |
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Woy putting his usual BS spin on yet another pile of dross.
Those apologists who supported Woys ridiculous appointment are AWOL it seems. Guy is a joke. |
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must be a chance momentum will become unstoppable to get rid of him if they lose to switzerland
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Two shots on target against Norway, no wonder the interest in the national team is probably at an all-time low and stadium half empty. Unfortunately it won't be getting any better under Hodgson.
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that's what will get him the sack. if they can't sell tickets to watch the sort of mediocre rubbish his teams always serve up. as always it comes down to money
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“They’re not the teams that normally attract full houses. But if the team works as hard as they did tonight, show the appetite and desire, and the aggression in the defending, show the exciting moves that were there for all to see, they’ll come back.”
good ol Woy |
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Did he really say that? Does he not realise he makes himself sound like a complete idiot? Just like when he claimed a 0-0 draw with Costa Rica had sent the fans home with a smile on their faces. What a moron.
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Manager Roy Hodgson said: "We'll find it hard to bring attendances back because the opponents we're playing won't excite the public."
Totally out of touch. Anyone would go and see an England game if the England team was exciting to watch, whoever they were playing. "We enjoyed some positive moments, some good movement and good play. All the things I wanted I thought I saw for large periods of the game." The movement was shocking, Woy must have been watching the Germany/Argentina match. |
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Defeat on Monday should see the end of him if the FA had any balls.
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All football fans disagree..... apart from this... Roy Hodgson is a ****g useless manager.
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That's very true Mike. Very rare fans of all clubs agree on something, and I dont think there are any that think Hidgson is anything but a complete buffoon.
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You have tried almost everyone else and are still very poor,Rooney hasn,t kicked a ball or anything else in over 2yrs yet he is made captain,Cahill hopeless,Jones rubbish.Henderson/Wilshire average,thar ye go.
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Numerous managers succeed in getting the best out of average players. There's no excuse for Hodgson, he has a full team of Premier League players and yet match after match he sends them out and they play like San Marino (sorry San Marino). Last night he refused to get involved with the shots on goal stat and mentioned how many were blocked etc (of which there were 6). It was a woeful performance, like the vast majority of his other matches as manager, and then bleats on about the quality in the team and how they do for their clubs. #sickofhearingit
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Cahill hopeless? Why do the Liverpool contingent look so good under BR and half as good under Woy. They definitely aren't world beaters but nobody can convince me Hodgson isn't completely inept and they another Manager wouldn't fare better.
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this debate was going on in the world cup
teams with players in lower leagues all over the world (including our country) were performing better than us. the tempo is wrong for starters, it's bull that our players cannot play at a tempo, they do it every week in the premier league. for england its lethargic rubbish. the defence is definitely weaker now than it has been in the past but from midfield up, there should be a great energy and an attempt at playing fast pass and move football. it just doesn't happen. when you can't do it against norway, it's far more than the players ability. rooney is an issue in itself, WTF is wrong with him, just got worse and worse, looks gone at the game at 28. |
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The real problem you've got with Hodgson, and why he's such a bad manager, is that he doesn't even know the qualities of his own players.
He really has no idea how good Sterling is or where he should be playing in the team and he obviously thinks Rooney is still the Rooney of 2004. There is no justification, and hasn't been since 2010 at least, for picking Wayne Rooney for England. It's almost criminal that having been relieved of two sacred cows in Lampard and Gerrard, we're going to have to watch another one lumbering around for another tournament cycle at least, especially when we have decent players we could play instead. Hopefully Welbeck will get some games at Arsenal to show Hodgson and a couple of other managers why he should no longer be playing second fiddle to a wasted talent. |
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For sure they could get a better manager than Roy Hodgson, but it wouldn't make a huge difference IMO. They celebrate these 100 cap players and call them World Class when really they are above average and no better.
Gerard, Cole, LAmpard, Rooney, Beckham had what 500 caps between them? Now ask yourself if those players had a French/Italian/German/Spanish/Brazilian/Argentinian parent and declared for one of those countries how many caps would they have? Gerard, Lampard, Rooney and Beckham would have got 15-20 for those nations before they were deemed not good enough, Cole maybe would get close to 100 because lb is a problem position for most teams and Nations |
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Cant agree Texas. Gerrard would have got many, many caps for any country. England have never, ever played him in his best position. He has never been any good as a central midfielder in a 4-4-2. Or even worse as a left midfielder in the same formation.
If you look at his performances in the Benitez era, in the hole behind Torres and freed of any defensive duties whatsoever, he was genuinely world class, and would have been good enough for most sides in the world. |
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problem with the pl's "higher tempo" is it involves risker passing.
british players havent the technique to carry off more intricate short passes so cant play a short passing high tempo game....hence why we have to always take a touch....i kno wi bang on about it but its a major flaw in our coaching in this country when you see far moreoften foreign players knowing where to pass before they have it. we will discount jose enrique in this as he really is more british than the british lol. 5 passes to advance 40 yards from a continental side is almost certainly going to be harder to close down than the same from a set of british players....more often than not. thats the issue. they are mor elikely to play a higher tempo if they see fit to than we are because if we play our high tempo it involves giving the ball back to them more.... a vicious circle. but your right striding....higher tempo would help just not the pl's version |
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what bothers me is the unprecedented support he gets from the football media in this country. even after "monkeygate" (still cant believe he got away with that) and an atrocious world cup. another atrocious performance v's norway where only 40k turned up at wembley, yet the media still give him an easy ride...it's incredible!
his england team play static one dimensional bog standard football that lacks imagination, flair, spark or creativity. no wonder ppl don't want to watch them. and no doubt if we get beat by the swiss the media will still back him up. it'll be the usual "give roy a chance .. we are building for the future...it's a young squad" bore off you mugs and get real. the best thing you can do for england's future is to sack him. it's jut not working...can't you see that? |