How can we get success like this?
Tradition dictates that all value judgments made before an England World Cup exit be immediately reformed in the weeks and days that elapse following it. The regularity of the clamber has undoubtedly dampened its effect over the years and, as such, skepticism about the extent to which anything England will change after the latest knockout is justifiable: therefore for suggestions to be anything but fantastical they’re going to have to be minimal. Here are five that fit the bill (over the course of five posts):
1.) Keep The Manager
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Here is a little video explaining why Football is called Football and why calling it soccer is complete and total bollocks (yes i’m looking at the USA, Canada, South Africa, Japan, Korea, New Zealand & Australia (Socceroos – WTF?). The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863. To put that in perspective America was still involved in the Civil War and American Football or Gridiron wasn’t to be played for another 30 years.
And also…
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Fifa president Sepp Blatter has taken on board the outcry for goalline technology and will consider the implementation at a meeting in July.
The decision comes in the wake of Frank Lampard’s goal that never was against Germany, with Blatter issuing an apology to the English Football Association in the wake of the incident.
Lampard thought he had restored parity to matters when he chipped goalkeeper Manuel Neuer with the score at 2-1 to Germany in their second-round World Cup
match.
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England’s football players have arrived back in the UK – as Fifa apologised for the team’s costly “non goal” and vowed to reopen the file on video technology.
Heads bowed, the dejected players were shielded from the public and shuffled into a VIP lounge after their plane landed at Heathrow. They filed quickly into a private terminal and then into waiting people carriers before heading for an upmarket Hertfordshire hotel.
Their arrival came shortly before Fifa president Sepp Blatter said sorry to England and Mexico for the refereeing errors that helped eliminate the team from the World Cup. Blatter said he “deplored” the refereeing mistakes in South Africa and admitted it would now be a “nonsense” not to look at video technology.
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Germany 4 England 2 (I could care less what the “official” score card says)
Shocking disallowed goal..feel really sorry for the traveling fans over that one…but no arguing with the final score…the best team went through.England just showed up for 40 minutes of the 90…Questions surly over Capello’s future, Eriksson got one stage better in 2006, not only that but Capello’s man management and tactics seemed to be all over the place. Another outcome of this game is the future of Sepp Blatter he and FIFA are a laughing stock over their refusal to bring in goal line technology or goal line assistants.
England’s defense was non existent, it had more holes than a golf course – David James kept us in the game early on no thanks to John Terry, who should now be sacked from the team. Rooney did everything except pass and keep the ball. The disallowed goal set the tone for the rest of the game for me. It could have been a completely different outcome if it was 2-2 at that stage – I think it affected us mentally and it showed.
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Just to let everyone know that the Timberwood Grill will be opening at 9:30am ready for coverage of the England v Germany game on Sunday.
Get your English Breakfast orders in !
Just got back from the Timberwood with a mixed bag of emotions. My first thought is how fantastic the support was for the US – both from the US and the English fans (Iain, Geoff, Ian, Dave, Josh, Kev, Rob etc). I really wanted you guys to do it and if it’s any consolation you never gave up for a second and I thought you played a great game. Thats what its all about and I can proudly state that no longer is the US national football team seen as an under achieving minnow in the sport of football. No, I will rephrase just this once in honor of my American family and friends.
The sport of….SOCCER!
It was not meant to be for the US team as Ghana continued to fly the African flag at the 2010 World Cup following a 2-1 extra-time victory over USA in the last 16 of this summer’s tournament at Royal Bafokeng Stadium. With hosts South Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria and Ivory Coast all falling in the group stages, it was left to Milovan Rajevac’s team to shoulder the expectations of a continent.
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And so, on Sunday, Germany will join Argentina as the team we have most faced at the World Cup, as it’ll be the fifth time the two teams have met.* So I figure, now is as good a time as any to have a look back at the previous encounters, nearly all of which were explosive.
1966 World Cup Final
Obviously, it all started here, with England’s first, and to date, only, World Cup victory. It was, I think its fair to say, a bit of a cracker. England won 4-2, after Extra Time and a controversial hat-trick from Sir Geoff Hurst. Franz Beckenbauer was just a 17 year old who showed a lot of promise. He’d get his revenge.
(West) Germany opened the scoring after a defensive blunder, Geoff Hurst equalised after a quick Bobby Moore Free Kick. Martin Peters seemed to score the winning goal after a Hurst shot was blocked and fell into his path, but right at the death, a goalmouth scramble gave Germany a draw. To extra time. Alf Ramsey sent his troops out with the words “You’ve beaten them once, now go and do it again”. They did. Geoff Hurst scored a controversial on the line/over the line strike, before finishing the game off drilling it into the top corner. We were World Champions, but it wouldn’t be the last we’d see of the Germans. read more »
