General Football Thread (inc' Foreign, Non-League & Women's Football)

Exhibition stuff from USA. That 4th goal was from the halfway line.

 

Just switched on - what's happened?!

 

Japan are having a Sunderland.

 

I'd rather go with USA doing a Saints.

 

4-1. The comeback is on.

 

4 - 1 game on

 

52 minutes played 4 -2. Cracking game.

 

Japan can't defend corners 5 - 2

 

Yes, this is hugely important. It was too easy for US.

I don't mean that in a jerky way. In the U.S., people get into the National team which is great and better than many countries. But the domestic league does not get enough support.

This is why the U.S. Team is old. There is not enough support there for new players to break through the ranks. It will cost us next time if we don't fix things. It should have cost us this time.

I am happy that we won and all, but I think it is not a good sign for US or the world that a team full of 30+ players can win so easily. There is a power vacuum, and some team can fill it and lift the sport to a new level, while winning some titles. Why not England?

 

The fact that we nearly beat Japan (with no disrespect intended to our girls) shows that they aren't a great side. The USA have a proud history in women's football. It is a moot point whether our girls are happier after finishing with a win against Germany than they would be if they were thrashed in the final. They might have been proud to be in the final, but they'd feel pretty crap today.

 

Bloody hell, has Duckhunter taken over the running of the FA? Talk about clueless...

http://mashable.com/2015/07/06/engl...n-sexist-tweet/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

 

Just saw that on Twitter (via the i100 which I don't remember following but apparently I do)... It's worrying how many people don't recognise the sexism in that Tweet. #checkyourprivelage

 

It's disgusting. The equivalent of a post-Hodgson knockout saying "England's #Lions go back to being a bunch of overpaid, prissy, overgroomed, slightly rapey little ****s".

 

There's no way England would have been thrashed by USA. England can defend set pieces and their keeper wouldn't have been lobbed from the half way line. Japan lost the plot in the final, it doesn't mean they aren't a good team.

 

If the US had actually played the proper players and tactics, I honestly think they would have thrashed every team in the tournament. England might not have lost quite as bad as 5-2, but it wouldn't have been that close.

I mean, in the end the US didn't lose a game. And our GK was hardly tested. We just ground out some boring results because we insisted on 4-4-2, and playing long balls to Abby Wambach. Everyone in the entire country for the whole first round was like "What the **** is the manager doing?!?"

 

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Of course it is!

 

Gibraltar's Lincoln Red Imps are through in the Champions League! FC Midtjylland in the next round.