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England - wasteful.
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Oh dear! England lost the baby final as well...
Oh dear! England lost the baby final as well...
Why oh dear? There's no shame in losing against a good team, and Belgium, are a good team.
Makes me think that England just had an easy group to begin with and that the team is not as good as the English media made them to be. If they had met a "good" team earlier on they would have been out sooner.
After all, these players play in the most expensive league in the world, so you can expect a bit more quality.
However, same needs to be said about several players of the German team.
Makes me think that England just had an easy group to begin with and that the team is not as good as the English media made them to be. If they had met a "good" team earlier on they would have been out sooner.
After all, these players play in the most expensive league in the world, so you can expect a bit more quality.
However, same needs to be said about several players of the German team.
Expectations were low going into the WC and most people were surprised that they got as far as they did, and the luck of the draw played a big part in that.
The British media are experts at bigging things up so that they can pull them down later, hence creating their own news story.
As for the Premiership, it works against the development of a strong national teama s I hinted at in an earlier post.
Opposite thing in Germany! High expectations before the WC, building up a lot of pressure. I'm surprised Germany has as many players at that skill level. Most of the Bundesliga is made up of foreign players, though a lot more low key than the Premier league. Second tier, if you like.
And given all the cash-grab tournaments the top teams have to play, at the end of a season the top players are pretty worn out.
Then, of course, there is the politically wanted multicultural aspect in Western European FAs, which backfired this time for the German team when Özil and Gündogan posed next to Erdogan during his election campaign to gain votes in Germany from the Turkish community (which is a big one, BTW).
Özil was doing what he did for Arsenal all season. Disappears for periods at a time with the occasional flash of excellence and then a wave of mediocrity. I'm not sure political beliefs changed any of that trend.
Germany had (has?) a good pipeline of players. In the last World Cup, they had the senior statesmen (Klose, Mertesacker, Schweinsteiger, Lahm) and you had players in their prime (Hummels, Mueller) and then younger ones on the bench (Goetze) ready to trickle in.
France gonna take it home
I've watched Giroud throughout his Arsenal spell. He's doing what Olivier Giroud does. At least he's consistent that way.
Smalto is milking this title like crazy. I'm sure his (French) blue suits made the difference.
"In Mother Russia only Putin gets an umbrella"!
Ymmv
However
Handing out umbrellas is the task of the heads’ of states security. The russians did their job, the croatians and french less so
Brentford kick off Championship season with a 5 1 thrashing of Rotherham.
Worrying that Championship games are now being spread over several days. Reliable Saturday three pm kick offs was one of the attractions of the league. That and the fact that success was not all sewn up by a handful of clubs.
In Championship? How is that possible? You would get promoted then.
My local team just signed Keisuki Honda. Glad he is on board.
Championship is not as predictable as the Premier League. So teams like Huddersfield get promoted and clubs that spend money, like Derby, have so far been unable to get back to the top flight.
It looked like he still had it from the World Cup.
Clint Dempsey retires from football. Hard working player.