Watched in a Pub in Mosciw. Germans were too polite to gloat. Ruskies
who hate krauts big time even sided with them.
We were appauling in defense. Terry and Upson done for pace time after
time midfield chased ball like schoolboys with no shape and the fat
grannie molester had the first touch and skill of a JCB.
Bloody awful
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On 27.06.2010, at 20:20, "hotshotlorimer"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Well, that was pretty interesting. I know there are many of you out
there that don't give a shit, but I just needed to get this of my
chest and frankly sitting here, at "home", in Atlanta, on my own
with only the dog to kick, I really need to vent a bit. I'm cutting
a lonely figure, in my England shirt, sat on the couch (decided not
to go to the pub today) in 90 degree heat with no-one on the street
interested in the game.
I'm not sure how those of you that don't care about England have
managed to do that, but in a way I'm envious. I wish I could do the
same. The older I get the more that I realize that the heartbreak is
inevitable, and perhaps you have done the same and just given up. I
keep thinking that I can take a passive, indifferent point of view,
but when it actually comes down to it I really can't seem to do
that. I do GET the idea of not wanting to cheer on Rooney, Terry
etc., but....well, I guess I haven't made it to the same place as
some of you, yet.
On to the game.
Frankly the score is a little odd. I really think that the Germans
(perhaps because of their youth) are in fact, vulnerable. That may
sound strange given the outcome, but they don't look the self-
assured, unbreakable teams of the past. On the other hand England
look EXACTLY what they are, which is a bunch of less than talented
individuals. Gareth Barry is just NOT an international quality
player in my eyes, and players like Terry, Upson, Lampard, Heskey
and Milner are simply good Premiership players who are all too slow
and all nowhere near good enough to compete at the very highest
level. Terry can hide it a little in as much as he can play with his
heart on his sleeve and physically push a few people around, but him
against the best in world? No contest.
Obviously the first goal was juvenile and unforgiveable, and I
thought that on the second and third goals James could have done
better. As for Lampard's goal it's odd (again), because much less
will be made of it that should be (since the score ended up the way
that it did) but games can turn on such decisions and this one
certainly did. The two goals that Germany scored in the second half
seemed to be tactical errors by England. It's almost as if we had
thrown caution to the wind in last ditch effort to get an equalizer
when there was still 20 minutes left. Capello may have some
explaining to do, or perhaps it was just horrible execution on the
pitch, as Barry was certainly at fault for the third when he lost it
on the edge of their box and the fourth when Ozil (who was VERY
quiet) out ran him (it was Barry, wasn't it?). As for Terry's and
Upson's shortcomings (which are many), it doesn't exactly help when
the midfield is almost totally absent defensively in front of them.
It may be that Steven Gerrard's England career is about to come to a
conclusion and it's a travesty that because of Lampard he has played
out of position for England for so long.
Glen Johnson is not particularly good but had a decent tournament I
thought, Ashley Cole the same. Heskey is fine as long as you want
him to do NO more than hold the ball up. Defoe looked lively without
ever really threatening the goal.
Teams with players like England have, CAN overcome the odds IF
someone like Rooney does a few special things. Obviously Rooney did
NOTHING in the four games he played and he looked injured, tired and
frustrated. Frankly, he plays with better players on a weekly basis
than he does when he gets together with England. Maybe is not really
that good. Maybe the Premiership isn't really that good.
The one saving grace (THANK GOD) is that we didn't lose to the US,
and they have been knocked out. The number of totally asinine
conversations that I have had to put up with in the last few weeks
has been pushing me to the edge. The country here can now go back to
normal, i.e. not giving a shit about the most beautiful game in the
world.
I don't know, all highly predictable really and I feel better for
writing this.
Adrian Dingle
Atlanta Whites
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