Sorensen reveals that Bendtner has had bollockings off the Denmark manager

Good. He needs to be brought down a peg or two. The way he goes on about himself, you'd think he was Lionel Messi.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/175981/Nicklas-Bentner-needs-big-kick-up-the-backside/?

KEEPER Thomas Sorensen last night revealed that cocky Nicklas Bendtner was given a series of “bollockings” by Denmark boss Morten Olsen.

Stoke shot-stopper Sorensen *admitted senior stars in the Danish camp had found Arsenal striker Bendtner a pain when he burst on to the international scene as an *18-year-old in 2006.

Bendtner, who will lead his country’s line against England in tonight’s friendly, still has a high opinion of himself, *constantly griping that he is the best hitman at the Emirates and should play every week.

But Sorensen said he was even worse as a teenager, caring just about himself.

He said: “I think you need to be confident as a striker, but with modesty as well. I think he’s learnt that in the national team.

“It was a hard job for us older guys to get him into things because he would like to do his own thing.

“But he needs to know, and he does see that now, that it is a team game and he needs to work as part of a group.

He can’t just go round and do things his own way.

“He’s made mistakes in the team, in training and he’s had a fair amount of bo*****ings from the manager.

“But he seems to pick it up, and that’s what you want to see. He’s improved a lot, but he needs to work hard on his talent because that talent is definitely there.

“He’s grown up and is a lot more mature than when he first came in, so it makes it a lot easier for us.

“He seems to be a lot more like the finished article and now he needs to play a lot more than he has been doing at Arsenal.”

 

I hate to reply to my own post, but I thought it was pointless making a new thread

Tommy talking about England.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11701_6742081,00.html?

Stoke goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen believes that England should be causing more ripples on the international stage with their quality and pool of talent.

The Premier League is regarded as one of the best leagues in the world and there are some world class players in Fabio Capello's current England squad.

However, England always seem to qualify for major tournaments with relative ease, something Sorensen has noted, only to fall flat on their faces on the big stage.

The Three Lions were tipped to impress in South Africa, but they limped through the group stages before being put to the sword by nemesis Germany in the second round.

Never deliver

"England have always had really good players - absolutely world class," said Sorensen, whose Denmark side face England on Wednesday.

"As a team, you look at them player by player and they are only behind Spain and Brazil, and England belong to a group of eight to 10 countries capable of winning the World Cupnext time.

"England always go through easily in the qualifying stages but maybe the players are tired when they get to the World Cup and European Championships in the summer after the long and very hard English season.

"They just never seem to deliver what people - and themselves - expect."

Gruelling season

Sorensen has been in England for the past 13 years having joined Sunderland in 1998 and he feels that perhaps the long and tough Premier League campaign takes it toll on the players.

"I always follow England. I've lived there a long time, for 13 years, watch them on TV, follow them and wish them the best - England has become a bit of a second country," he continued.

"It's always difficult to analyse from the outside, I wasn't close to it but there's been a lot of talk about the long English season and maybe a few players were burnt out a bit.

"You can't really tell though and I'll let Capello analyse it. It ends up being a long season but I still feel that the World Cup is such a big thing that you can gather resources to get through it. But it didn't seem to gel.

"We had our problems with injuries and a lot of players not being on form, but on paper that shouldn't have been the case with England."

 

I think a lot of the problem with England is the players' high opinions of themselves, and the media hype before the major tournaments.

When you have the Sun and the NOTW building up these players every week, giving them stupid nicknames, and stalker rags like Hello and Closer glorifying every aspect of their lives, they're going to get a huge ego about it. Having the belief that you have a god-given right to win without even trying is a recipe for disaster.

Look at Uruguay, their front line of Suarez and Forlán was, in my opinion, miles ahead of anything England can field (I don't rate Rooney at all). Even still, that smugness wasn't there about their team. Either they play too far away from Uruguay to see it, or they're not obsessed over in the same way players like Rooney and Gerrard are. Suarez is a dirty cheat, but I can't imagine many England players sacrificing a chance of personal glory to give their team a chance of progressing like he did.

 

COMEEEEEE ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN TOMMY !!!!!!! Cheering him on, want him to keep a clean sheet. I want the final result be 0-0.. and Soronsen to save a Rooney Pen !

 

Good keeping from Tommy a few minutes ago. Goarnnnnnnn Denmark

1-0 to the Danes. Crap defending by England, as per usual and then 1-1, bright start considering it's a friendly.

 

Sarge,

were the same, 'COME ONNNNNN DENMARK' *denmark score* WHOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *bent equalises* -silence-