Sunday, July 02, 2006

Oh Well!


England 1 – 3 Portugal (penalties). Oh well, another four year wait. In all fairness the best team just won.

The Portuguese are chronic cheats, every opportunity to dive they did, argue every Ref calls and whinged at everything!

I don’t think Rooney’s red card affected the outcome; he had done nothing up till then. It only showed the woeful lack of forward’s that were bought to Germany by Sven. He bought Theo Walcott, a bloke renowned for his pace; pace would have crucified the Portuguese. However it seems he was only bought for the experience. Not a good tactic. This game was made for Defoe to punish the opposition.

I’m pleased that Sven is leaving, the only thing he as given us is a confidence to qualify for Tournaments, were as before we always messed up. We are a quarter final team and haven’t the depth to progress any further. We haven’t a Liniker, Pearce or Gazza anymore. The choice of Mclaren is not a good one. We need a proven leader who will shake up the apple cart.

Rhinaldo, I think is finished in the UK, I have heard rumours that Madrid are after him. One can only presume that his diving, moaning, tackling, getting Rooney sent off, his wink to the bench and his penalty that decided the game wont make life easy for him in Manchester. I believe mssr’s Rooney, Ferdinand and Neville will be wanting a few words.

Not England’s best performance, the brightest spark was Owen Hargreaves, who played like 10 men.

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