England vs. T&T Live!
Now for some real footie action. I am pumped up for this one. "Barmy Army" is pumping and I'm set for the big one. I know you'll want to join me for this one.
Come on, England!
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Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Now for some real footie action. I am pumped up for this one. "Barmy Army" is pumping and I'm set for the big one. I know you'll want to join me for this one.
Come on, England!
Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
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couldn't quickly find the gabby in her kit pic, but this might do. gabby in next to no kit at all
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/girls/Gabby_Logan/slides/2.jpg
Nice one, should I put that one on instead of the England slags? I'm kinda liking this women in the crowd theme.
THREE LIONS ON A SHIRT la la la
Jules Rimet still gleaming....
leave the england slags. if i could have found gabby in a kit that would have been a result. i'll keep looking, but it's good as it is.
bit of news, nurnberg temperatures at 30-32 centigrade today, roughly 91 fahrenheit. field temperatures are bound to be hotter than the ambient temp too. that's a setback.
91! Blimey, that isn't good. ESPN mugs are profiling Stern John now. Not a sniff, I say, not a sniff.
Here's the side for today:
ENGLAND
1. Paul Robinson
15. Jamie Carragher
6. John Terry
5. Rio Ferdinand
3. Ashley Cole
7. David Beckham
8. Frank Lampard
4. Steven Gerrard
11. Joe Cole
10. Michael Owen
21. Peter Crouch
As expected the same side that started against Paraguay except Carradona in for Gary Neville who is crocked. What do you reckon?
VINDALOO! VINDALOO! VINDALOO VINDALOO la la
Oh, dear. Now Dave Revsine, Julie Foudy and Waldo are all doing the Peter Crouch Robot dance in the studio. It's all a bit sad. You wouldn't see Des doing that.
Still, I'll be roboting my arse off if he scores. Come on, Crouchaldinho!
I am on Univision for the anthems.
Let me know if it is on ESPN
the beeb say that the floodlights are on and there are a few spots of rain in the air
I hope so. Crikey, Univision have Chilavert on - he's been after the pies!
thanks for lettin me know fellas. It is on ESPN
Players in the tunnel - Becks looking serious but confident. Let's go Golden Balls.
'Cello actually making sense by saying that Roon won't play until later and only if England are up and coasting. He's learning.
England doing the Brazil "We Are the World" thing with interlocking arms during the anthem. Very metrosexual, that.
Uh, Dave. It's on the Deuce here. I don't know what you're watching on ESPN - golf?
They're profiling Shaka now - he's going to be picking them out of the net today, bhoy!
Soca Warriors going down, doo dah, doo dah!
you knew what I meant FISH FACE
It does look fairly overcast out there. Or have they got the roof on?
Here we go, here we go, here we go!
Good early pressure. Carragher with a first shot - nice effort. T&T definitely backing off.
First free kick for Becks....
Straight into a T&T guy; he's got to do better.
too many long balls so far
OOOOOHHHHH, Lampard's shot carroms off of Shaka and Owen can't finish.
what is with owen. He should have burried the rebound
I agree - he doesn't look sharp.
Nice move but Cashley needs a better cross.
Hiya, Trev!
MR. BROOKING!!
Nice free kick from Yorkie - we'll have some more of those.
close
Corner for England.....
Oh, Owen was completely mugged in there!
why didn't it drop to Owen or Crouch?
are you dissing an old Hammer?
Definitely Sol scores more from corners, Trev, but he hasn't had the best of seasons.
great move and crap cross... come on owen
great move by cole.
so close
Theobold into the book.
becks with the kick. Wrong side
Come on, Becks; he's got to do better.
Good, the ref asks them to do it again. Come on good cross
Gotta be another yellow for Whitley - yes!
Free kick to come from the same spot.
And over from Crouch.
just saw on the beeb that Jonathan Spector has joined the Hammers
Nice take from Robbo, but I don't like even that close an attack.
good catch by robby
well in johnno. spector has impressed me so far.
england a little too measured as if they're worried about moving at too high a tempo in this heat.
i too thought owen's reaction was not sharp enough and that he could have got up and over the ball and nailed it.
Nice cross but Crouch is wildly off the mark with the header.
they are not looking good right now.
SO many long driving balls.
WORK IT THROUGH THE MIDFIELD
we're missing a lot of attacking verve on the right. everything smacks of a lack of imagination and invention. we should have unlocked these guys by now more often.
What's the feeling of the English commentary crew Steve?
Owen and Lampard almost got in each other's way on that last chance. Good knock down from Crouch.
it's clyde tyldsley and gareth southgate and they're not very informative. tyldsley is waxing on and on about how unfair it is that we laugh when someone takes a ball in the knackers and also chastising yorkie for drinking too much water in a drought.
then gareth squeals like a kid at the sight of rooney limbering up. surely not.
Corner to come for England....
And Gerrard into Row Z
why are they taking short ones
OOOH, nearly from Lamps. Nice effort!
you know, it's ridiculous. in one breath clyde is whittering about lack of invention and in the next he's willing beckham on the corner to find crouch for a knock-down.
this really is half-paced. trini don't look half worried enough.
it's going to take more of that kind of shot from lampard to break down the back 8 that trini have set out.
that was too close
I did not like that at all!
And another headed chance for T&T - as usual we're going to have to sweat this one out.
this doesn't look good.
England haven't scored in the second half for YONKS!!!
OOOOOOHHHH, Lamps what are you doing?
Pretty move with the wrong finish. We should be two up.
FINISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chance after chance here spurned by horrible lapses of technique.
and the chant for rooney to come on starts up.
not going to plan
gareth makes a good point that sven's dithering about will-he, won't he re: rooney has put a lot of pressure on crouch.
what is going on
Who was it
great job TERRY!!
Oh dear, what a clearance from Terry!
jesus!!!!
All together now...
Pick, pick, pick the Roo
Pick, pick, pick the Roo
Half time 0-0; The coverage back here is all about how bad we're playing; I actually think we're doing well but should be three up. Did you notice that ball that Lamps whistled into the goal as the half time whistle went. Why couldn't he do that when it mattered?
Come on, Trev. Any of us could have finished the chances that Owen, Lamps and Crouchie missed there. Jesus!
Nice line from Waldo, but he can still sod off.
C'mon England!
england's doing this all wrong and much of this is erickson.
he's sent them out telling them not to run themselves into the ground in the heat. he knows with a formation like what trini is showing that they've got 8 or 9 banked up at the bank.
And you simply cannot break that down if you don't go at a reasonable rate of speed. Look at what trini are doing, tackling fiercely and the ref is doing us lots of favors. but instead of pushing up and taking those frees quickly and pinginig the ball around, becks is still placing the ball, having a look, and then floating it into a forest of trini tees. you think that the trinis haven't noticed crouch? or that crouch knocks it down to owen?
trini have their strategy down. set pieces.
Right now, the English have to talk about pace and movement, of the ball and the players.
they've just interviewed beenhaker and he's said that he considers this job done. he says that the english are as predictable as he expected. when he says that we're lacking in ideas, you have to believe that it's not the players that he's talking about, it's sven.
i swear he's already lit up a cigar the smug git.
i'd bring on lennon right now and run at them, time and again. and when he gets shagged, bring on theo and run and run. the trinis can only knock them down and that sets up more chances for us.
c'mon england!!!!!!! these trinis are just the worst. we must set out our stall now.
what is this LONG BALL CRAP.
What ws Stevie thinking
Yellow card for Shaka for time wasting.
take Cashey off
A bit early for the post-mortems, Gooner. I reckon if we play the same way, long balls and all and finish the chances we'll be fine. We made plenty of chances, but we haven't made Shaka work as hard as he did against the Swedes.
I'm over to Uni now; I can't stand these berks.
FRom the beeb
47 mins: The early signs are that England did not get a half-time rollicking from Sven-Goran Eriksson or find a secret stash of kryptonite in the changing room. It's moribund stuff summed up by an aimless Ashley Cole pass to... nobody.
how could crouchie let that hit him
We're actually playing worse this half! The nerves are setting in
i just cannot agree. if it's harsher than you can accept at the moment i can sympathise. i'm seething at this. we are watching a great generation of english footballers underperform terribly and it's the instructions. it has to be.
if we keep launching missles at crouch, we're looking at 0-0.
just look at what happens when trini break quickly.
we must change this now.
another hopeless cross from Cash.
Another finish for the blooper reels from Crouchie. Get him off!
ROONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a miss
ROONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!
And now Owen's been hammered.
Yellow card for Gray.
Sven's giving instructions to Roon - they probably sound like: "Ball, stick, net."
Oh, another sitter missed by Owen. Shite!
here comes rooney. and lennon. owen and carra to go?
here's something to cheer me up. 5 trinis on yellows in this match now.
ROOOOOOOOOOOON!
Glad to see the back of Owen. He actually took that last chance away from Becks. What a stinker!
Yes, and Lennon on for Carra - it's balls out now, lads!
Univision guys are referring to Becks and Crouchie as "Spice Boy" and "Mr. Roboto." Hilarious!
Brilliant run from Lennon but a hopeless ball ballooned over the area.
hopeless cross by cole again!!!
it's already better though.
trini play this way against the us when all they have to do is defend against mcbride and landycakes. they don't have any where to go.
Bugger! Yellow for Lamps for a late challenge. The final balls from Lennon and Cole must be better.
The good news is Rooney looks good and strong. Several good passes and the tackle through the back of him didn't phase him at all. Just got up.
i'll tell you, we are not going to beat Sweden
OOOOHHHH, another good chance goes begging for Crouchie. I want to see the Robot - all is forgiven.
they had better chances than we have.. fish face
what is with Beckham.
USELESS
it is getting worse
cole off? WRONG COLE
Another good run from Lennon - he's getting some joy. Should've been another card for them.
C'mon Becks!
I agree, Joey was doing well.
Lamps! Straight at the keeper! Should've been 5-0 now!
lamps$^%$^%$^$*&^%
Oh no, another miss from Lamps. Did the T&T lads put one of those hexes on the goals today?
A COLE FOR Man of Match.
DO ME A FAVOR!!
Shot of the England crowd - a row of faces that says - "been here before" all arms across the chest looking disgusted.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gol - gol - gol - gol - gol! para Mr. Roboto!
hold on. Please hold on
Classic England ball -finally a great ball from Becks and finally an accurate finish from Crouch - we should have won this 6-0.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pick that one out, Shaka! Stevie G!
GOLASSSSSSSO!
Offside, you bugger
Have you noticed that they play an anthemic version of that "You're shit and you know you are" song after every match in the stadia? I love it!
I agree, the floodgates have opened.
Let's hope for a draw or Para win in the next game and England win the group
Off to work as well
It all depends on who we meet in the Round of 16. If we get Ecuador, I'd agree with Sir Trev's inclusion of Lennon. He did look good coming off the bench today, gave us lots of width and set up several good chances.
If we're unlucky and draw Germany, I think Lennon might be a luxury. The real crucial question is who to play with Rooney - Owen again looked out of sorts and missed at least two good chances that I think Roon would've buried. It was a shame he didn't get a tap in today. And Crouchie scored. How do you leave him out?
Otherwise I'd keep the same side for the next two matches.
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