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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1350 on: October 07, 2017, 12:29:41 AM »
I knew something was bothering you.

Your inability to understand a simple statement doesn't bother you? If you're a grown adult it should do. It might stop you trying, and failing, at sarcasm.

As I said. At least you finally understood what "top 6" means. That certainly bothered you yesterday.

That's a bit unfriendly, Villa75.



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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1351 on: October 07, 2017, 07:51:06 AM »
England 38 (thirty eight!) games unbeaten in qualifiers.  There haven't been any games against recognised big teams in that run, and most have been against minnows like San Marino, Scotland, Moldova and Wales, so it shows that England are the very definition of flat track bullies.  Qualify easily against non entity teams, but then shit the bed every single time at the finals as soon as they meet anybody decent.

Not. Biting.

Damn. Waste of a post! 😘

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« Reply #1352 on: October 07, 2017, 05:54:24 PM »
England 38 (thirty eight!) games unbeaten in qualifiers.  There haven't been any games against recognised big teams in that run, and most have been against minnows like San Marino, Scotland, Moldova and Wales, so it shows that England are the very definition of flat track bullies.  Qualify easily against non entity teams, but then shit the bed every single time at the finals as soon as they meet anybody decent.

Wasn't going to bite Risso, but will that be the minnows Wales who currently reside high in the world rankings (I know they don't mean anything!) and are going into Monday's game having not lost a home qualifier for four years?  Those minnows?

As for England (as I do have a foot in both camps), it remains a mystery how they can get the job done so convincingly in qualifiers (the record really is very good) but struggle in the major competitions.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1353 on: October 07, 2017, 05:55:26 PM »
I watched Adama Traore's Mali against Jonathan Kodjia's Ivory Coast. So you don't have to.
Utterly awful game.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1354 on: October 07, 2017, 05:57:33 PM »
England 38 (thirty eight!) games unbeaten in qualifiers.  There haven't been any games against recognised big teams in that run, and most have been against minnows like San Marino, Scotland, Moldova and Wales, so it shows that England are the very definition of flat track bullies.  Qualify easily against non entity teams, but then shit the bed every single time at the finals as soon as they meet anybody decent.

Wasn't going to bite Risso, but will that be the minnows Wales who currently reside high in the world rankings (I know they don't mean anything!) and are going into Monday's game having not lost a home qualifier for four years?  Those minnows?

As for England (as I do have a foot in both camps), it remains a mystery how they can get the job done so convincingly in qualifiers (the record really is very good) but struggle in the major competitions.

No mystery about it, we’re not good enough and haven’t been for about 25 years.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1355 on: October 07, 2017, 09:33:08 PM »
Netherlands fail to qualify again.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1356 on: October 07, 2017, 10:06:36 PM »
Netherlands fail to qualify again.

Probably because, as Matt Sammerface was keen to point out more than once in his commentary, they keep recycling the same managers. It is like competing on Pointless. If you do well but not quite well enough you automatically get another go. I didn't work for Albion in the seventies and eighties (Don, Johnny, Ronnie, Ron, Ronnie, Ron, Johnny, Ron and Ron) and it isn't working for the Dutch now.

Howe, Giles, Allen, Atkinson, Allen, Wylie, Giles, Saunders and Atkinson in case you were wondering. The sequence was totally ruined when they appointed Brian Talbot.



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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1357 on: October 07, 2017, 10:12:09 PM »
It's frustrating how boring England are to watch, compared with how exciting the U20s and U21s are to watch. What happens to these players when the step up to the full England team, it's like they have all the talent and excitement taken away from them. 

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1358 on: October 07, 2017, 10:21:20 PM »
Netherlands fail to qualify again.
I thought all they need is to beat Sweden and job done?

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« Reply #1359 on: October 07, 2017, 10:23:07 PM »
Netherlands fail to qualify again.
I thought all they need is to beat Sweden and job done?

I believe you are correct. They only need to sneak it by seven or eight goals.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1360 on: October 07, 2017, 10:50:17 PM »
There is something about tonights Switzerland 5 Hungary 2 scoreline that makes me think the game and scoreline belongs back in the fifties. Timewarp football.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1361 on: October 07, 2017, 11:11:54 PM »
I watched Adama Traore's Mali against Jonathan Kodjia's Ivory Coast. So you don't have to.
Utterly awful game.
That's not the ex-Villa Adama. It's Adama Traore who plays for Monaco, though not too often.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1362 on: October 07, 2017, 11:13:40 PM »
There is something about tonights Switzerland 5 Hungary 2 scoreline that makes me think the game and scoreline belongs back in the fifties. Timewarp football.
..and the Swiss have won 9 out of 9 qualifiers and may still miss out on the World Cup.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1363 on: October 07, 2017, 11:16:00 PM »
There is something about tonights Switzerland 5 Hungary 2 scoreline that makes me think the game and scoreline belongs back in the fifties. Timewarp football.

I'd agree if tonight's scoreline was Hungary 5 Switzerland 2. The Mighty Magyars of the fifties...

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #1364 on: October 08, 2017, 01:07:23 AM »
Netherlands fail to qualify again.
I thought all they need is to beat Sweden and job done?

I believe you are correct. They only need to sneak it by seven or eight goals.
Dont exaggerate a 6-0 win would do with head to head result working in favour of the Dutch. ;D

 


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