But Roy claimed he could coach a pub team to beat Man U. Surely if he can do that winning or at least looking like you could win an international match with professional players would be easy..... Until we get a sea change at the FA this is just going to happen time and time again, we need to nurture our own talent instead of importing everyone elses, time and time again we sack the manager, then we blame the manager and sack the next one when is someone going to wake up and smell the coffee and say ooooh hang on we keep changing managers and it doesn't work perhaps we need to have a good long look at what to do (look at Germany for example) and no prem clubs fielding B teams isn't a solution either, hell its not even a bandage.
No he didn't, he said he could coach a pub team to concede less than six goals against man United, which is quite a difference
I didn't say I blamed Hughton, I was implying Woy & Hughton were both coaching from the same manual ?
.<conducts the Barclay choir> Are you Carla? Are you Carla? Are you Carla in disguise (in disguise) Are you Carla in disguise?
I think its a bit harsh to compare Woy to Hughton. England scored 2 goals in 2 games, both by getting to the byline and cutting the ball across. Hughton must have skipped this part of the manual. In all seriousness, I was enthused by the way we played in the Italy game. I just wish he would have the guts to drop Rooney.
Lallana for me. He's had a great season, featured in the friendliest and didn't look out of place at all.
I'm sorry, but this is just plain nonsense and all the hype and criticism of Rooney in the past few weeks has been one of the biggest annoyances of the World Cup so far (just nudged out by Adrian Chiles and the ITV crew). We've scored two goals in this tournament, Rooney scored one of them and created the other with a superb assist, he was comfortably our best player against Uruguay and with just a tiny bit of fortune he would have joined Lineker and Hurst in becoming the only other English player to score a hat-trick in the finals. Why the incessant criticism of him? It makes no sense to me and I just wish people would stop being brain-washed by the rubbish they read in our media (who have always had some kind of agenda against whoever is our current best player, one of the things that makes me ashamed to be English I have to say) and make their judgements based on facts and what is actually happening in front of them rather than being sheep! All this hype about Sterling is doing my head in as well, he did nothing of note in the World Cup at all apart from one decent pass to Rooney to create the goal but I don't hear any criticism of him at all, no it's all aimed at our best player who is the only one who really looks like scoring or causing problems for the opposition defence! It does my head in!!! By the way I should add that I see Rooney has indeed been left out for the game tonight, however I would imagine it's more to give everyone a game and have a look at Barkley rather than because he doesn't think he's good enough, which I'm guessing would be your reason for not picking him
As Munky says, Rooney has been integral to the 2 goals we have scored... but flip that slightly and compare that to our opposition. Balotelli - 1 chance, 1 Goal Saurez - 2 Chances, 2 Goals Rooney - Numerous Chances, 1 goal and a few misses The difference has been that when it mattered we weren't able to make those situations count. The miss by Rooney against Italy a prime example, though he certainly isn't the only one but his reputation as our 'world class player' obviously leads to intensive scrutiny that he hasn't lived up too, whereas the likes of Neymar, Dempsey and Robben have really stood up and been counted for their national sides so far this tournament
The defence has to take much of the blame for this debacle! We dont have a leader anywhere in the back 4, someone to organise things and to marshall the defence. Dare I say it but we badly needed John Terry and Ashley Cole. Neither of the 2 Centre Backs are the Leader in their resepctive CB Pairings at club level. Distan is the leader for Jagielka and Terry leads Cahill. We have been undone by poor defending and at this level you will always get punished!
Absolutely have to agree. Shearer said after the game against Uruguay - "We lost due to 'schoolboy' defensive errors!!" HOW many times did CH say that in his post match summary during his tenure last season - I would guess after most games!!!!
