Spain is the reason I now go for zee germans to win. I am bored to death watching 700+ passes a game with 90% success rate. 600 of them being passes going back or 3 meters. I am a bloke, I want fxxing penetration at some point, not endless poking, get it?!
Watching England was like watching norway..put everyone behind the ball, defend well and try and get a lucky goal on a freekick or a counter attack. I have been surprised by Italy playing like a team, and by the germans. Portugal are better than expected. The rest mediocre.. I expect germany to beat spain in the final. hasta luego! Eric On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Brendan McWilliams <[email protected]> wrote: > > It pains me to say it, but Ireland were definitely the worst team in the > whole tournament, closely followed by England - yes, even worse than Greece. > > I can't watch an England match these days without a non-stop pass count in my > head: 1-2-3, ball lost and repeat... It is STAGGERING to see how England > cannot maintain possession. The two good moves they had yesterday were the > result of a string of consecutive passes, but otherwise it was constant > losing the ball and crazy champagne passes. Truly amazing, like they were > allergic to it. I used to take huge enjoyment from England being hopeless, > but now it's just ridiculous. Young, Milner and yes, Gerrard, truly > shocking. > > For those of you who haven't seen them, check out Liam Brady and Eamon > Dunphy's half and full time analysis from RTE on YouTube. Priceless. > > On to my adopted Spain: what IS annoying though is that people say Spain's > games are boring like it was Spain's fault, WTF! Spain are the Barcelona of > world football at present obviously but France did a Chelsea and employed a > blanket defence. Understandable tactic from the french, but if you pick 2 > extra defenders you're gonna get the ball even less. Yes the game was a bit > dull but blaming the spanish is lunacy. > > > >> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:44:22 +0200 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> CC: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LU] New levels of indifference >> >> The astonishing thing about England for me is HOW CRAP ROONEY HAS >> BECOME..............*AND HOW NO ONE DARES MENTION IT! >> >> *I heard Hodgson say before the Ukraine game that if he didn't pick Rooney >> there would be a mutiny in the dressing room. So none of the players, >> certainly none of the commentators, dare address the issue..............he >> is just awful. He loses the ball almost every time he gets it. >> _______________________________________________ >> Leedslist mailing list >> Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist >> To unsubscribe, email [email protected] >> >> PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate
