Other Games - 2016/17

[cdbearsfan]

I hope it's Malta fans. It's bad enough listening to that shite every England game without Scotland starting.

The football's bad enough!

[Meanwood Villa]

I liked the bit in the commentary when Tyldesley was talking about Alf Ramsey losing his first game in charge and said "it's not how you start it's how you finish" or something similar. Cue awkward silence while we remember how Hoddle's England reign ended.

[cdbearsfan]

Can't see past Scotland winning the World Cup now. Not sure who I fancy to be runners-up. Maybe Argentina, if Messi doesn't retire again.

[Pete3206]

England should beat every team in this group at a canter. Another turgid, pathetic performance.

[Dave Cooper please]

What was that shit that Allardyce came out with about how he can't tell Rooney where to play?
What a load of utter wank.

[Nev]

What was that shit that Allardyce came out with about how he can't tell Rooney where to play?
What a load of utter wank.

You can tell that Sam can’t believe his luck and is chuffed just to be managing Rooney so he won’t tell him what to do or where to play.

He described his performance yesterday as excellent which was arguable at the very least, this sort of gargantuan blind spot leads me to think that this will all end in tears.

Again.

[cdbearsfan]

I'd half-expected the resident whinging England fans to write Allardyce off after his first defeat, but must say I didn't think you'd be doing it after he'd won his first game!

[Brend'Watkins]

Allerdyce might prove to be alright but he will need to take off those rose coloured spectacles if he thinks Rooney was brilliant. He looked very poor to me.  God only knows what role he was trying to play. I also thought Sterling looked no better than he did at the Euros.

[cdbearsfan]

From the bits I saw Walcott looked the worst, whenever I flicked over from the cricket to the football he seemed to be missing a sitter.

[Dave Cooper please]

I'd half-expected the resident whinging England fans to write Allardyce off after his first defeat, but must say I didn't think you'd be doing it after he'd won his first game!

Personally I had written him off before he was even mentioned for the job. Everyone knows exactly how England will play under him and it just makes me even less likely to bother tuning in when they play.
 We'll bore our way through qualifying then be found out against the first half-decent team we come up against because we only have one way of playing - attacking full backs and a static defensive midfield. (repeat ad nauseum)

[nodge]

Rooney knows more than ever that he'll play every game for England if he's fit.  He said the next World Cup would be the end of his International career, he did say "if selected", although I didn't know England had already qualified.  Stuart Pearce couldn't quite bring himself to say that Rooney shouldn't be in the team this morning on Sky.  I much prefer how Eddie Howe said Wilshere will be in the Bournemouth first team if he works hard and plays well, just like any other player.

[Villa in Denmark]

There's nothing like getting a firm grip on your squad right from the off and Sam Allardyce says it is "not for me to say" where Wayne Rooney plays is nothing like getting a firm grip on the squad.

Sorry Sam, but isn't that exactly what you're being paid for.

England will go nowhere, other than out the first time they meet a decent team in a finals, until the cult of personality over capability is killed off. Shove it in the same rancid sesspit of utter awfulness as those bloody celeb baiting magazines that are another facet of the same inexplicable cultural phenomenom.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd half-expected the resident whinging England fans to write Allardyce off after his first defeat, but must say I didn't think you'd be doing it after he'd won his first game!

You don't think this is a crap thing for a manager to say?

Allardyce, who took over from Roy Hodgson in July, says he "can't stop" Rooney from dropping into midfield, adding the player has a "lot more experience at international football" than he does.

"It's not for me to say where he's going to play," said the former Sunderland, West Ham, Newcastle and Bolton boss, 61. "It's up to me to ask whether he's doing well in that position and contributing."

[UK Redsox]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37274343

Spennymoor Town goalkeeper Dan Lowson scores an 80-yard free-kick during his side's 5-3 win away at Radcliffe Borough in the FA Cup first qualifying round.

[PeterWithesShin]

That keeper has now scored more goals in the FA Cup over the last 4 years than Gabby has!