World Cup
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Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
Good to see all the passion and singing of the national anthem at the top of their voices is working out well.
Piece
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Dante. Luiz. Marcelo. That's a lot hair in the back. Shame Don King can't play right back!
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c1973
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Germany have taken the foot off the gas a bit here, need to be careful or Brazil could get back into this.
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Slime
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Was it? I thought 40, 50 is even more of a deal.
I think it was €50m which equated to around £40m .......................... I think.
Regardless, great bit of business although I rated him as a mid-fielder.
Slime.
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Good to see all the passion and singing of the national anthem at the top of their voices is working out well.
Surely you are not suggesting that national teams need anything other than passion and belief if they are to be successful?
That could be a shock to one or two on here.
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Deleted member 15344
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In 2009 Germany beat England in the U21 Euro Final
7 from that team are playing tonight
Guess how many from the England team went to the WC
7 from that team are playing tonight
Guess how many from the England team went to the WC
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pentruple(?) boom!
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c1973
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This is one of those games that folk talk about in years to come.
Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
At least I can have a relatively early night as I don't think this one's going to extra time and penalties.
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Irrelevant. England are poor for years before and since and it wouldn't have made any difference this time. In the way you moaned that not winning PL titles cost managers, not qualifying or living up to media expectation has cost England manager's their job too. How can you get any level of consistency in performance with different managers playing different methods using different players
As it goes, I think that while Germany are rampant tonight Brazil are inept in equal measure. I would fancy either Argentina or (ideally) Holland will be far more organised and that it won't be a given that Germany will win
Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
People will say 'where are you when Germany stuffed Brazil , no honestly, the Brazil defence, where were you?'
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The point is which you clearly are missing is these teams are being brought through the system as team
Starting from under 15 all the way through to the main team they play the same system
When it comes to the Under 21 Tournaments all the best players go regardless. Our best U21's don't
The whole structure needs to change - these German players gained tournament experience from an early age - ours don't go.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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oh good grief!
freddielong
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Big Phil knows what he is doing
Not missed the point. Just realistic to know the FA haven't got the balls to consider implementing this kind of costly and long term programme. That will never change.
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c1973
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Spain done the same thing with their kids, bringing them through together, pretty sure France done it as well.
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They do indeed
When it comes to the U21 - all the eligible players go - we allow ours to have the summer off or even put them in the main team to go to some tournament
