Eto'o has been injured playing for Cameroon.....oh dear Chelsea....why on earth did they let Lukaku go out...?
Is he though? I don't think I've met anyone yet who sees him as anything more than a sometimes-amusing buffoon (as opposed to Hansen and Shearer, the never-amusing buffoons).
Here's something from Dani Osvaldo to comment on: http://www.football-italia.net/39281/osvaldo-roma-wanted-me-out I like the fact that he recognises there's some adapting to do and that he's happy. Good.
Boruc apparently has a slight injury according to polish press but doesnt state what. Him and few others in squad have minor ones.
Fact is, if it was Hansen who did the result predictions, and Sir Alex Ferguson who said the comments about Rickie not starting against Ukraine, we would be talking about them. Lawrenson in himself is not who anyone is fascinated with, but it's the fact it was him who said these things. Don't think anyone is overly fascinated with the man himself. Once he gets the full boot from the BBC, he won't be mentioned on here again, I'm, sure.
You're probably right, but lots of other people have said similar things about Lambert. Maybe it's just that he is given a prime position on the BBC (and he isn't too proud to do football focus and so on) so everyone sees him. I just think these comments of his which he obviously doesn't put a lot of though into don't merit this kind of attention. If he had made any effort to justify them, then maybe. But they are just throwaway lines and next week he'll be talking about how well Lambert has done. He rides the wave of opinion more than creating a wave, I would like to think anyway.
And continue to not get picked up on it. Fact is, Lawro is hopelessly out of touch with public opinion on this one. The public is sick of overpaid footballers getting in the national team on reputation rather than merit, and Rickie has surprised everyone, and given us all hope and a reason to get behind the campaign again (it has for me - don't know if I'm Saints-blind, but from what I am hearing from colleagues and friends, as well as the media, seems this is a wider phenomenon). I know he hasn't done this alone, but he has found himself in a definite symbolic role here. He is representative of something at the very least, and has delivered in spades. Lawro is coming at that fact in the usual dour and patronising way, and is just getting his facts wrong. Rickie is a one-man 2012 Olympic Games!
To be honest, I think we all know what the team will be. Milner in for Welbeck and maybe Smalling in for Walker (rumours) but other than that same team.
That's very well put. There is a little of the London Olympics spirit about the way the public are perceiving Rickie.
I see Suarez was up to his old tricks against Peru. The bloke is no more nor less than a cheat. Gaston didn't get to play, I don't think. So another season of controversy in the PL from Suarez.
Reported in one paper today (can't remember which because I read about Rickie in all the papers) that the biggest cheer at Wembley when the team sheet was read out was for SRL. England fans are behind our Rickie.
