chrisd
Major Champion
Remember the World Cup? .
Yep, I saw the 66 final live on the box!
Remember the World Cup? .
The intensity that the op memtioned is what teams like leicester and spurs played with when they battered city. Odd thing is that an overused cliche when describing a subbed player is " well he put a shift in ". Which means he run around like an headless div. but v Germany it was a night where everyone brought a controlled energy to the team. Watching England press high up the field in packs was excellent. Similar again to when City did it V Kiev. Incidentally i know there are not many Delph fans. But he would fit into that style of play very well.
Re Rooney hes a red and i would love to bash him but apart from being a granma shaggin shrek. He dont deserve the flak he is getting. If he was playing and doin nowt then i could understand, but his goals and contribution during the qualifiers enables woy to play that game the other night.
Said to my lad when England qualified that looking forward to the finals as there is no pressure. The result the other night may well have upped the pressure of expectation a little bit. Like i said the other night when watching the game on German tv station. They dis not like being beat at all and in post match interviews they all looked a little shocked.
That's all I want from my teams (Fulham and England). Win lose or draw, at least put a shift in and be proud to wear the shirt
In black & white:lol:
That's all I want from my teams (Fulham and England). Win lose or draw, at least put a shift in and be proud to wear the shirt
The starting 11 that should start the first game
Hart
Clynne
Stones
Cahill
Rose
Dier
Henderson
Alli
Barkley
Vardy/Welbeck
Kane
It would be a brave bright attacking line up that if given license to play could do well - but there is a massive soft centre with the CB , Rooney will start so either they play two up top with Vardy missing out.
Really? Don't you want a bit of flair, a bit of skill, a bit of technical competence? The attitude of lauding players who 'put in a shift' has set up back ages on the international stage and IMHO is a big reason why we now get beaten at most tournaments by teams with much less well known but technically better players.
All we seemed to value were players who can run for 90 minutes, and we treated any player with technical skill with suspicion. Look at the way we treated players like Hoddle, Le Tissier and even Scholes who was shifted around the mid field and often marooned on the left wing because he wasn't just 'box to box'. When he had more skill and a footballing brain than Lampard and Gerrard ever had. Xavi said he was the best central midfield player he's seen in 20 years, yet he struggled to ever play in his best position for England.
For me you can keep your 'putting in a shift', give me players who are comfortable on the ball and don't hoof it up front after the second pass any day.
Happy for Roy to make 11 changes to the team from the other night, if he's going to put people in a squad he needs to see them and they need to get a chance, (result irrelevant) then when he gets to pick the 11 for the Russia match, barring injuries, he will then be picking HIS first 11 and he will sink or swim by results, no excuses,
I'll take that result and performance, decent display at times and hopefully put some of the media back in their box.
Yep, not as good as the media and some people were saying, glimpses of decent football were there, still work in progress and will be interesting how he uses the last few friendlies.Looked like some of the same old same old with a few changes. To me it showed Stones, Walker, Milner, Sturridge and Lalana shouldn't start. I like Vardy and Kane up top, they defend from the front like a good, pressing team should.
Looked to me like Scotland are going to be playing the reigning European Champions in the WC qualies