Bloody delighted for you lot. Any affinity I ever had with the England team has slowly died away the more overpaid these average bunch of tossers get. Scots may lack the English supposed "talent" but have far more passion and effort. Premier league has killed international football for me. Utter greed.
Only watched last 25 minutes - completely forgot it was even on. Which says it all. Without wanting to sound like a regular poster on here, Through 80's and 90's I don't think I missed an England match. Even early thousands. Loved them. And most of the players. Unlucky at the end for your boys.
I totally feel for the young lad Griffiths, they were two truly wonderful goals totally deserving the "World Class goal" tag and worthy of match winning. But Ian surely you cannot fault your boys effort... I thought they worked their socks off. England, as usual, strolled and bumbled throughout. Lalana trying too many fancy flicks and show boating. Kane doing **** all till his goal in stoppage time. Mate I hope your lot qualify I really do, I hope all the 'home nations do....it would be ACE to have us all at the world cup, how good would that be. Lastly fella I hope tonights game both before and after has gone off without too much trouble from idiots. If so then maybe ...just maybe... the old 'Home Internationals' tournament could be re-visited. I still remember them and they were ace....do you remember the 'Tartan Army' at Wembley hanging on the goal posts till they snapped. Not big , not clever..... but bloody funny.
Dragon I had a ticket for that game then found out I had to work.Didna have the balls tae phone in sick. My father and brother went and I was gutted to have missed it.
Its started the debate again as to whether we should bring back the home Intl's as summer friendlies.
I dont rate friendlies anyway and Im also not keen on seeing these matches brought back. There were a few today who didnt look bothered so what are they going to be like in pointless end of season friendlies.
Would it be a pointless end of season friendly if there was a cup at stake - the football equivalent of the Calcutta Cup? Or play it as Charity games (with the four UK teams) - with a semi-final and the two winners going into a final. Bragging rights and the winning team pick the charity or something.
Had you phoned in sick you can have bet yer shirt on the camera showing you in the crowd at some point.....lololol....'Sods law '
I was not even aware the game was on until Ian mentioned it. No interest whatsoever in the national side. However, whilst I am no apologist for these overpaid tossers, I can't believe that they are playing world cup games in the middle of the bloody summer. They will be back in training for the new season in 3 weeks - when the **** are they supposed to have a break. I can understand for once if half of them didn't seem bothered. I presume this is due to the increased number of games involved in the qualification process due to about 5000 countries being involved now. Which presumably is down to money.
The problem isn't the amount of countries entering the world cup, it's the fact that uefa are shut scared of the big countries not qualifying so make a bloated qualification system which gives them a chance to fail but still qualify. At the moment there are 6 countries per group so that's 10 games each and after that you have only managed to qualify 9 countries with 4 spaces left for losers. Finish second in your group and it's another two games making 12 in total. If my maths are correct that's 278 games played to get 13 teams through qualification. Do away with the second chance and you could split the 54 countries into 12 4 team groups and two 5 team group. One from each group qualifies. That's 6 games for most countries and 8 for another. For most countries you have reduced the amount of games played from 10 to 6 and for some it's halved from 12 to 6. Instead of 278 games you've now got around 170 games. Alternatively you can have a finals format. 12 groups of 4 and 2 of 5. Play each other once with luck of the draw determining home or away. Top two go through to the next round with winner of group A playing second from group B etc. Most countries now only need to play 4 games with a few playing 5.
We weren't unlucky - Stuart Armstrong cost us a famous victory. 2-1 to Scotland, 90 minutes on the clock. England are pushing forward with everyone bar Joe Hart... and England lose the ball. A three-man Scotland break is on. Armstrong has two players free, especially on his left. What does he do? He attempts a wee flick with the outside of his right foot. Gives it right back to England, and our two men who were breaking forward screaming for a pass from Armstrong are caught out of position, and bang - Kane scores. Dreadful decision making and attempted execution from fancy dan lightweight nancy boy Armstrong. Even if he'd hoofed it into Row Z of the stand we would have won. England had more quality overall though. We were simply not unlucky though. Armstrong sold the jerseys.
