If that's the best England can do they may as well come home. Germany in the next round will get them a well deserved thrashing.
If that's the best England can do they may as well come home. Germany in the next round will get them a well deserved thrashing.
Sweden 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 4 Slovakia 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3 Spain 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 Poland 2 0 1 1 2 3 -1 1
Slo V Spain could be a damn good game at 11pm, if the spiks pull their finger out of their paella and actually get going.
If they lose, 2 points, no wins, and a negative goal different isn't too handy for getting one of those 3rd place spots (should Poland not win and they actually still be in 3rd and not 4th.)
Wales, population 3 million, managed to get out of their group.
Denmark has the same size population as Jockland too.
England beat both the other teams in Scotland's group to make the ungrateful fuckers task easier too.
Yeah bit like that too.
And this.
The following is a genuine call on TalkSport about Scotland's 2-2 draw with the Faroe Islands.
"Alan Brazil: We have Jim on the line who wants to discuss the Faroe Islands / Scotland game.
Jim: Thanks...er yeah. Just want to say it's an absolute disgrace. I mean, we're playing probably the weakest side in world football and we can't do better than a draw.
Alan Brazil: It was a poor result.
Jim: Poor result! Poor result! It's absolutely scandalous. The manager has lost the plot completely, he's got to go. I know we've never set the world alight over the years on the international stage but I can't remember things being this bad. It's the end for us. The absolute end. I can't see us ever recovering from a setback like this. We're a complete laughing stock.
Alan Brazil: Look Jim. I know it seems bad now but there is still a long way to go. I can't see us qualifying for Euro 2004 but hopefully things will improve.
Jim: I never expected for a moment we would qualify. I don't mind that so much. We're not good enough. But listen, to not qualify is one thing, but to fail to beat a team like Scotland is a different matter. It's a bitter blow for everyone here on the Islands.
What do Wijnaldumdum, Schick, Ronnie and Lulukaku have in common?
Clue: There are 14 players with the same or more number of tournament goals than England.
Unbeatable.
Iceland has a quite unique approach to football, probably because they have fuck all else to do other than drink and shag (and go fishing when the weather is OK).
How did a nation of 330,000 people qualify for Euro 2016? The secret behind the Iceland miracle | Goal.comGunnarsson is quick to point out how Iceland's approach to youth coaching is as fundamental to the national team's success as anything else. In Iceland, young players of any skill level will likely be trained by a coach with a UEFA B license. Gunnarsson says that even his four-year-old son could be taught by a coach in possession of a UEFA A license, as well as a Physical Education teaching degree.
Coaching licenses are easy to obtain in Iceland as, unlike in other countries, the KSI makes these courses available to nearly any coach who is interested in attaining them. Sigurdur Ragnar Eyjolfsson, formerly the head of coaching education in Iceland, told These Football Times that, when the country overhauled their coaching system, "it was paramount to run the courses without a view to a profit, that nothing was added on top of the fee." In 2003, according to the KSI, no Icelandic coach had completed their UEFA B license but, beginning in 2004, when the first coaches graduated, the focus towards promoting strong coaching from within the country emerged.
Since then, Iceland have enjoyed a startling rise. They are currently ranked 34th in the world by FIFA, their second-highest-ever rank and up from 50th in 2000 and an all-time low of 112th in 2010.
What's more, the roots of football culture within the country have become that much stronger.
"The kids get great experience from the training sessions, which helps them to start loving the game," says Gunnarsson. "If you start loving the game, you start playing it outside of organised training sessions. That's the important thing."
Gunnarsson estimates that it takes just eight months for anyone in Iceland to attain a UEFA B license, although that doesn't mean that the education isn't of a high quality. As with every other facet of football in Iceland, the cultural values of the country are reflected on the pitch.
"It's cheaper than in other countries," he says, listing the cost for a UEFA B license at €770 (£613). A 2013 ESPN story stated that the cost for a UEFA B license in England was £990 (and could cost as much as £2450) while the cost in Spain was €1,200 (£955).
Hardly unique.
When the Germans underperformed (by their standards) in the 'noughties', they focussed on getting coaches trained up all around the country, and increasing the number of public pitches. They were champions in 2014 in Brazil.
The English got state of the art facilities for the use of the national team and paid SGE and Capello a king's ransom. They finished 26th.
The peno miss won't help Morata's confidence.
Look like a team going down, more than one in a battle to stay in it.
Slovakia goalie is giving Spain a helping hand...0-2 at half time.
Spain have gone top of the group and thus, if the scores stay as they are, avoid Croatia.
Which is now open to Poland having equalized against the Swedes. Might as well switch over.
So Sweden fuck it all up with an injury time winner and Spain have to play Croatia.
Sweden will play one of the third places teams.
Five goals in the Sweden game. England, with our two goals, are making the hurdy gurdies look like Brazil of 1970.
At least we look fairly solid at the backzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Germany up now anyway. Come on meine boys!
France, Portugal, Germany and umm, Hungary all battle it out. Whoever finishes 2nd will face England.
Football porno.
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