craig 5,195 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 to be fair Mike to the guy that Rooney stamped on I don't think he was play-acting..... Rooney stepped on his nuts !!! Now, the contention was if Rooney meant it ! As for Ronaldo he had no business being anywhere near the incident..... would love to be a fly on the wall at the 1st ManU training session when they are both back !! I agree that Portugal won't go further - but I don't think England would have either !! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gersgal06 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 Thats fair enough, good players missing easy penalties etc etc etc But hey, england aint won a penalty shoot out, thats 5 out of 5 defeats at the hands of pens. Not exactly an unexpected result with those statistics. And, Ricardo has got to be Portugal's hero for today, saving 4 and almost saving the 5th!!! Italy - World Cup Champions 2006 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buba3d 0 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 I couldn't resist. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewarty 1,876 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 No sign of Colshy? Probably drowning his sorrows... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ascender 352 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 You can bet the press and fans will be blaming Ronaldo for single-handedly putting England out of the WC when in fact they just played shite. Sven will also get grief, some of it rightly so, but the fact in my eyes is that a lot of those players under-performed. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falkirk Jim 0 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 Absolutely brilliant Sven is an idiot, England have the players to win such a tourney, but employed a monkey to pick the team! Thankfully young Andy Murray has shown how to do it today .... thank god for the Scots, eh 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewarty 1,876 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 You can bet the press and fans will be blaming Ronaldo for single-handedly putting England out of the WC when in fact they just played shite. Sven will also get grief, some of it rightly so, but the fact in my eyes is that a lot of those players under-performed. Without a doubt they under performed but how much of that was down to Erikson? He failed to take enough strikers. Out of the four he took, 1 got injured, the second hadn't played for 2 months prior to the game and didn't look sharp, the third did ok but the fourth didn't even get a chance. Also, his tactics hindered their play and he insisted on accomodating Lampard and Gerrard when he would have been better off playing with only one of them, with the other being used as a quality sub/ impact player. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ascender 352 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 The strikers thing was a huge gamble, it just didn't make sense to anyone at all. Sven's tactics seemed naive at times and he's definitely got his favourite players, but a few of them were rank rotten on the pitch and a change of tactics wouldn't have helped that. For someone who who was so brave to take Walcott, its strange that he doesn't have the balls to drop some of his favoured XI when they're not playing well. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stewarty 1,876 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 The strikers thing was a huge gamble, it just didn't make sense to anyone at all. Sven's tactics seemed naive at times and he's definitely got his favourite players, but a few of them were rank rotten on the pitch and a change of tactics wouldn't have helped that. For someone who who was so brave to take Walcott, its strange that he doesn't have the balls to drop some of his favoured XI when they're not playing well. Spot on. And we thought Alex McLeish was bad! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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