Hodgson is a ****e manager so I have no idea why everyone is so surprised at England's piss poor performances, he is such an uninspiring and predictable manager and watching England play hurts my eyes. Rodgers would sort them out
Agree. The simple thing to do would be to tell that many Liverpool players to just play like they do for the club, but no, lets tinker and nullify them all.
I was clever enough to not watch the match, heard it was awful and I'm not surprised. England is the most overrated footballing nation in the world, 95% of our players wouldn't make any of the squads from our "rivals" and we have a manager that picks players like Cleverley... We'll be extremely lucky to make it out of the groups in the World Cup, I can see Suarez and Cavani having an absolute field day when we play them.
After we have seen how Rodgers has transformed Liverpool, it makes me wonder just how Redknapp and Rodgers would have worked doing the England job, as Redknapp asked Rodgers if he would have been his assistant, if offered the job. Would Liverpool have allowed Rodgers to work as Redknapps assistant? Possibly not, yet just to have such personalities and believers in attacking football would have at least given us a team with some passion and attacking cohesion. Instead we end up with Roy Hodgson.
I think he was only going to be assistant for the Euros as a one off, good experience for him and a talented coach for England.
I'm going to use this thread to post a few of the international bits and bobs. Bale's goal for Wales last night: [video=youtube;knwJdqa2qag]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knwJdqa2qag[/video] Lewis Holtby and Christian Eriksen both attended the England v Denmark game last night and sat with the fans. Holtby's girlfriend is Danish. please log in to view this image Nabil Bentaleb made his debut for Algeria last night and somebody's put together a rather boring compilation of his contributions: [video=youtube;M2GaoPOnJXY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2GaoPOnJXY[/video] Lots of sideways and backwards passes, gets the ball blasted into his nuts by a teammate and misses a couple of chances, but they'll have been happy with the 2-0 scoreline. On the negative side, Bongani Khumalo was stretchered off against Brazil and will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.
Hodgson reckons he now has a "selection nightmare" after so many "positive" performances, last night.
Why is Lennon constantly over looked. With the England defence as week as its ever been, he works so hard tracking back and he's not exactly a negative pick is he?
For years it was because he wasn't David Beckham, since then it's been because he isn't whichever flavour of the month gets rushed into the England team and gets found out yet somehow retains their place to avoid admitting the mistake.
As much as I hope Townsend will progress and become very important to Spurs and England, for me I would have Lennon any day. Everyone seems to jump on the band wagon with Andros as his stats (although they don't always tell the full story) arn't that great.
Glad he does get overlooked to be honest, Lennon's had trouble with injuries over the years so I'd rather he not play any extra games outside of Spurs than he has too.
To add to PNP's round-up, Paulinho only played the first 45mins, replaced by Gustavo at HT. Tactical.
Trouble is Verts played 85 minutes,hope that won't affect him,last time v the Chavs he looked out on his feet
I'm also glad he doesn't. I think his England reputation never overcame a game (in the 2006 WC, I think) where nobody had a single idea what to do except pass it to Lennon. So time after time, Lennon would beat his man, and most of the time deliver a poor cross, occasionally varying that with a decent one that no one ran for. All the pundits after that game said it showed Lennon wasn't international level. It actually showed the other 10 weren't international level, and Lennon could more than hold his own on the right.
It's possible that Scholari had the weekend game in mind and wanted to keep good relations with the respective clubs, because 3 of the 4 Chelsea players who were involved (Oscar, Ramires, Willian) also played only 45 mins. Luiz played 60.
