England football stars to endorse new cologne, ' L'Eau de Chite'.

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McClaren: Tinkering wasn't to blame

England coach Steve McClaren insists the failure to beat Macedonia in their Euro 2008 qualifier was not down to his tactical tinkering.

http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/0,16368,2483_1579660,00.html

In which case he is wrong.

Steve M talking to Paul R

Although I've never thought McClaren was the man for the job, I'm starting to wonder whether these players are really 'world class'. After all when did they last play well in an England shirt against decent opposition?

Sure they play well for their clubs but they are surrounded by foreign players and directed by foreign managers.

Perhaps the time has come to 'let go' of the notion that we are ever likely to win anything again.

What do they care? They will still get payed an indecent wage. You can't buy pride.

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
Although I've never thought McClaren was the man for the job, I'm starting to wonder whether these players are really 'world class'.

And (I thought I would nevr say this) how good did last night show Sven to be at getting teams through qualifying?

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And (I thought I would nevr say this) how good did last night show Sven to be at getting teams through qualifying?

Are but you need an English coach see, cos I mean, those foreign coaches don't understand our sophisticated footballing public see.

Take Big Phil for instance, he would have been no good (even if the FA hadn't cocked up the approach to him) 'cos all he's done is win things at international level. He dunt know about how England players play etc... ad nauseam cont page 94.

You watch Teflon Tel though, it won't be long before he's putting some distance between himself and this shambles.

It will be interesting to see how the Venables apologists cope with this latest addition to his very, very average exploits since Tottenham. Don't talk to me about Euro '96 either - had the lino been awake we would have been out before we beat the poorest Dutch side ever.

Steve.

The players are just too old. This guy must be at least 80 by now.

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had the lino been awake Steve.

EDIT - apologies I though you meant vinyl floor covering (got floors on the brain at the moment). No doubt El Tel will leave Steve-O to take the stick. Quite right too he is the Boss!

Anyone see the U-21's the night before? They seemed to have a bit of pace and grit about them - will they still have it when they "graduate" to the main squad?

S

Sorry Steve,

I meant "Referees Assistant" who you may remember saved us in '96 by ruling out a perfectly good goal.

As if giving them that title has improved things.


You can bet El Tel will manage to come out smelling of roses and richer (sic) for the experience. Just ask the fans of QPR, Palace, Leeds, Portsmouth etc. etc.

Regards,

Steve.

Oh U-Turn in prospect?

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Originally posted by SteveGa:
Oh U-Turn in prospect?

Perhaps we can play him in goal alongside Robinson, purely to deal with backpasses.

The system could be 1 2 5 2.