England v Ecuador Match Thread

Valencia what a tough guy, picking on people half his size. Valencia is only half the player Sterling is though

 

Yellow for Sterling, red for Valencia.

 

There's only Woy Hodgson...only one Woy... Hodg...son...

 

What is Clive spouting ****e about there....What has Sterlings inexperience got to do with being incorrectly sent off......twat.....

 

What is Townsend on about? Sterling tackle was perfectly fine... won the ball and caught him with his follow through which happens in 99% of tackles.

How is that worth the same punishment as going up grabbing someone round the back of the neck and pushing them... and then grabbing them round the throat again

 

Sterling shouldn't have gone in so hard and high. Could have hurt Valencia. It was a definite card... He is young and impulsive but Red is a bit harsh.

 

If it doesn't effect the WC, Sterling should have nutted Valencia there.

 

Aww bless. poor lil Valencia might have got hurt playing football

The sooner we make football a non contact sport the better. Can't have thee people being hurt can we

 

100% this.

It was reckless but never a red.

 

Not harsh, just plain wrong.

 

Wasn't even close to red in a competitive game, let alone a friendly.

 

Wilshire was in there, doing his small man syndrome act
What a waste of time this game is, we are dire, one more game to go before the real thing.......and we are just farting around playing people out of position etc etc
All this game has proved is that Lampard,Jones,and Smalling should be nowhere near the squad........oh nearly forgot Woy as well

 

It was reckless. A definite yellow. Hope sterling will learn from that and stops doing tackles which are ridiculous and get him carded or even sent off in the WC.

 

Why leave it at that, why not shoot him. After all its Miami, gun crime is par for the course.

 

So what have we learnt from today..

Rooney is lethal from 1 yard.
Wilshire is still made of glass and offers nothing to the midfield.
Lampard is sadly past it
Smalling & Jones aren't at the moment an International CB pairing
Milner is no worse at RB than Johnson

 

Wilshire and the disappearing Lampard have been woeful

 

Speed of Sterling does it count as a drive by?

 

He won the ball.

Man up and get on with it. A good tackle is wining the ball and then leaving something on the player. Means next time there is a 50/50 challenge you have the mental edge on them and are more likely going to win the ball as they wimp out of it.

 

And Wilshire..unless it's the ' falling over and rolling around holding my leg ' World Cup

 

I think the reason we play a second string is, if we played the expected world cup line up, and they got beaten or they played their usual ****e, confidence would be low going into the competition, at least this way there is an excuse and the press stay off their backs