Yes, we gave the world the game. We don't get much thanks for it though do we? Coulda/woulda/shoulda.
The best team won, end of. It doesn't always pan out that way, but tonight justice was done. We were crap, Young, Milner, Rooney, Gerrard, ****ing crap, the rest just crap. Oh and Woy you are crap too!
Sorry but thats a terrible idea. Thanking you for what? setting up rules that have been changed a million times since their introduction? You didn't give the world football, football has been played for hundreds of years.
England had no chance. I mean, what chance does a team with a combined strikeforce worth £62m (Carroll and Rooney) have against a poor Italian team? ps Jip: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-15348386
More English lies. Association football is an English invention, but in terms of rules the oldest version out-dates any English involvement by over 200 years. A small book called Vocabula was discovered in Aberdeen, dating from 1633 contains the rules of modern football and details games held in Aberdeen during this era.
A reject who scored 7 goals in 28 games for West Ham. Typical know nothing English media. Arrogant,pompous and ****ing clueless.
Exactly, 'Association Football', football in its current form. It's nice to see the ABE vultures picking at the England carcass as usual
Hang on, I've been slagging England for weeks now. I predicted you'd get pumped out on penalties in the QF's before the tournament started. To be fair I thought it would be Spain who did it though. Also that first association game in England only took place because two Scots organised it.
And I haven't said anything about England before today. Absolutely nothing at all. Anyway, Wimbledon starts today. I'm sure all you English will be behind Britain's Andy Murray, wont you?
Predicting an England quarter-final exit on penalties is like predicting that somewhere in Liverpool today, a 13 year-old will give birth to a heroine-addicted baby.
I'm reading 'Inverting the Pyramid' at the moment - a history of football tactics. Apparently in the early days of football in England, passing was regarded as 'unmanly'. The game was all about dribbling and the other forwards were there in case their striker lost the ball in the tackle. The idea that he would pass to them of his own volition was unthinkable. After watching the England game last night, it appears that the English attitude to passing hasn't changed much. In a cruel twist of fate, Scottish teams of the time were widely admired for their expansive passing game and the intricate patterns they wove on the pitch.
