England v Argentina

Awful game from Englands point of view

Too many sloppy penalties, thank god that the argies kickers had a worse day than Jonny.

We were ill disciplined and very very lucky to scrape through

we had best pick ourselves up before the big boys

Credit to the Argies though, even though I think they were still fighting for the Malvenas

Fragger
 
ref had a poor game in my opinion, granted our discipline was poor, but he let the argentines get away with murder, paticularly in the first half
 
But a win is a win. Very tough opener for England and I would rather they were rusty and un-dynamic against the Argies than against the French or one of the other top sides in the quarter finals. This England side have a lot of talent and are a decent outfit, with a number of young players in their first World Cup. Give them time to settle into the tournament.
 
Missed it as I was too busy hitting my own self destruct button on the course but saw it this afternoon on Sky+. Agree about Vickery and the ref but felt England were nearly the architects of their own demise through indiscipline. I thought one of the key components to winning the world cup and especially the final was not to give penalites away and yet we were pretty shoddy today. A win is a win and we should top the group now.
 
Lots of negative,s few positives but a win is a win, no matter how ugly. The only way is up and we started the same way in 2007.

Not worried just yet.
 
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