You know what\'s funny? I\'ve always hated soccer (football to you Euros ). Today I was bored and my brother, his friend and myself were watching the England and Swedish game and I must say, it was fun and exciting to watch. I think I\'m gonna be keeping up to date with this. It was amazing seeing their ball control. Never seen such athletes like that before. I\'d like to see England and Germany play.
england were shit again, I don\'t know wtf they are doing sometimes.
I mean, on paper, the likes of sweden shouldn\'t be causing problems for england, but england haven\'t beaten them for the best part of 40 years.
England have some of the best players in the world at their disposal.... Terry, cole (a), fedinand (when he\'s not being a tarty bitch) in defence, gerrard, lampard, beckham (arguably the best feeder/free kicker/corner taker in europe if not the world) & cole (j) in midfield, rooney (and up until last night) owen in attack, we should be doing better than we are, we should be shitting all over teams like sweden, but england\'s players don\'t play at the top of their game at the same time, you only ever get 2 or 3 that play their bollocks off, and the rest just plod along.
Joe cole was the shining light for england last night, I think he\'s probably been the outstanding player for us so far, this world cup could make him, I can see his stock going up massively during the competition.
Dispite me not thinking he\'s worthy of a place in the england line-up, I think owen hargreaves ran his bollocks off last night, he did more than his fair share of the spade work, and because of it, I think he\'s earned his place in the starting line-up against ecuador.
Rooney was also everywhere the action was, but he was still lacking match fitness, and contrary to what he said after the game, he was pissed off to have been subbed.
Once he gets full match fitness, he\'ll do damage against england\'s opponents.
Gerrard made an immediate effect when he came on, scoring the goal that put us 2-1 up.
Towards the end, england showed their achilles heel, letting in a goal due to piss-poor defending.
It\'s sad to see owen out, he\'s had a shit world cup, and I had predicted him to shine against sweden.
Looks like that one injury will result in a major shake-up of englands structure on the pitch, I wouldn\'t be wanting to partner crouch with rooney, especially in the later stages, as I have already stated, I can see crouch becoming less effective as the better teams come along.
He needs space to perform well, a good defence will tie him in knots.
I don\'t see ecuador causing any problems, assuming england don\'t beat themselves, they should cruise past them.
Can\'t say I\'m as optimistic for the matches after that though, we\'ll just have to wait and see......
