[Siouxsie]

great game italy will win the cup im sureof it

[abs]

now THAT was called...

the Italian Job!!!

[Ruth]

Originally posted by georgie121uk
my opinion is that english teams such as manchester unit should'nt have such people has ronaldo playing for them
as man.U (an ENGLISH team) pay for his training, and pay him an amazing wage to make him a better football player,
and then he plays against us..?......

Are you serious? Loads of players in our premiership are not English...do you think we should send them all home? If you want only English people playing in English teams, then you'd better be prepared for some teams to do a nosedive down to the lower divisions. Do you imagine that the Real Madrid players are saying that they don't want Beckham in their team, because he plays for England? Sorry, but that is an absolutely ridiculous statement that you made in your post.

[Ruth]

Originally posted by easypeasy
ah get a grip.... you dont like England, why dont you just admit it? funny because id always support an irish team over their oppononts, not many irish people would say the same about England eh. mind you thats all down to religion...... same old same old rangers/celtic arguements and nonsense, its not just the english with slight prejudice when it comes to football eh.

Slartibartfast is a Man U supporter!

[lily.]

At the end of the day...

...if my team got to the Quarter Final of the World Cup, I would be well pleased. There are a lot of good teams out there, and the fans should be applauding them for getting this far... instead of knocking them for going out.

I noticed there were less than a dozen fans waiting to see the team arrive home at Stanstead the other day... that's pretty poor... seems a lot of England fans are "fairweather fans".

[easypeasy]

Originally posted by Ruth

Slartibartfast is a Man U supporter!

ok fair enough, one thing he and I are likely to agree on then is England seriously missed having paul scholes in the squad this world cup.

[lily.]

Originally posted by easypeasy
ok fair enough, one thing he and I are likely to agree on then is England seriously missed having paul scholes in the squad this world cup.

But Scholesy is far too busy in BBBM with Russel these days..

[easypeasy]

hehe thats true. too busy looking after Russell's ball bags.......

[lily.]

Originally posted by easypeasy
hehe thats true. too busy looking after Russell's ball bags.......

LoL.. and his dinkle..

I can't believe I never watched that show before this year. The man cracks me up!

[easypeasy]

Yeah I caught the odd episode of bbbm last year and couldnt stand him. this year i just found him funny straight away.....the swine!

[lily.]

Maybe he changed his style/material. And here was me thinking I had missed out on a comedy gem all this time... maybe I didn't.

I do remember the first few eps of BBBM being advertised and I thought he was loud and unfunny. I think he has probably evolved into the comic genius we see today... either that or all the drugs he took actually improved him..

[easypeasy]

yeah he used to be a bit of a wildman i hear, thought he would have better taste than sleep with kate moss though......

[lily.]

Some people find 'lollipop sticks with teeth and hair' attractive..

[easypeasy]

yeah thats all she is, plus she has been out with that pete docherty waster. i prefer curvy voluptuous ladies myself,

[lily.]

Nothin wrong with a bit of meat round yer bones... at least that's what I console myself with... LoL

[easypeasy]

goog girl! can you beleive it that other thread in the forum over there got locked? well done for saying lighten up strops! why are people so touchy nowadays? its like everything they disagree with they class as offensive........christ.......

[lily.]

yup... it's disgraceful.. the swines... !

[Ruth]

Originally posted by Stropz
I noticed there were less than a dozen fans waiting to see the team arrive home at Stanstead the other day... that's pretty poor... seems a lot of England fans are "fairweather fans".

A lot more turned up apparently, but the bad weather made a lot of them go home. I guess it was difficult for a lot of people to get there, given that nobody knew they were coming home until the evening before. Everybody was hoping that they would still be in Germany.

[Slartibartfast]

Originally posted by easypeasy

ok fair enough, one thing he and I are likely to agree on then is England seriously missed having paul scholes in the squad this world cup.

Cheers Ruth!

And there it is again easypeasy, you're judging people by the stereotypical ideas you have formed about people from certain countries. Just to be clear, I don't support Rangers or Celtic or any of the local league teams, cos football in scotland and northern ireland is riddled with sectarianism and prejudice, it's a joke. As I said before, my dad's english so thankfully, I'm not so entrenched in the sectarian c**p that plagues northern ireland. (although sadly you can hardly avoid it, especially in my job and working in Belfast)

And I don't have any problems with the english or the english national squad, I don't want to be painted out as some english hater! What I don't like though is the hypocrisy that surrounds the english national game and in particular, some of the c**p that is spouted by the media, both in television and in the press and some of the rubbish that was spouted in this thread. Calling for hate mail to be sent to the ref, the whole english media making Ronaldo out to be public enemy No. 1 when the true villan is Rooney for violent conduct against another player. Ronaldo was standing up for his fellow countryman who had just been rather disgustingly attacked. Why the hell should he show loyalty to his club mate when that "mate" had just stamped on another player. If it had happened to an english player, there would have been no criticism of Stevie G or Lampard if they had run up to the ref complaining about the incident.

Anyway, this thread had fallen down the list in here and I apologise for bumping it up again, but I was away for a few days (building a fence in my back yard, woohoo!!) and I didn't want to leave this thread with the idea that I was some sectarian, english hating scumnbag! I just love my football but I wish we could see a little more objectivity over the england squad, instead of it always being someone else's fault when they underperform and deservedly get beaten.

[easypeasy]

fair comment and no grudges mate. I still dont think the "stamping" was a deliberate premeditated act though but i will admit Rooney needs to learn to control his temper to avoid ref's giving the benefit of the doubt in favour of the drama queen rolling around on the floor all the time.
Europes best players always were a bit volatile just ask Mr Keane and Mr Cantona......

[abs]

poor rooney, its svens fault for putting him as a lone strike anyway!

Italy for the cup...

[georgie121uk]

Originally posted by Ruth

Are you serious? Loads of players in our premiership are not English...do you think we should send them all home? If you want only English people playing in English teams, then you'd better be prepared for some teams to do a nosedive down to the lower divisions. Do you imagine that the Real Madrid players are saying that they don't want Beckham in their team, because he plays for England? Sorry, but that is an absolutely ridiculous statement that you made in your post.

like i said.....ITS MY OPINION!

[Ruth]

So do you think that all the English players who play for foreign clubs, should not be allowed to play for England then? And do you think that all the foreign players who play in English teams should be sent home? Because that's what it sounds like

[spikeymikey]

Just found this Well from a scotsmans point of view loved the penalty shoot out, think the england team need to go to penalty shoot out school

[Daryl]

good to see portugal lose to france