Back in the 40s, Orwell said something to the effect that international sport fosters emnity rather than unity.

Lets just remember that all sport is now part of a worldwide entertainment business, nothing more.

Have to say I wast bothered, although I prefer Rugby anyway.

On the contrary Abdul, I have a meliflously deep voice.

"real englishmen"? Iwould prefer surreal Englishmen, or Magic Realist Englishmen, anyone but real englishmen...
"The trueborn Englishmans' a contradiction!
In fact, a fiction!"

Pathetic but in fairness they have been like this all tournament england have a lot to learn still about modern football

Isn't it now time we looked at these ridiculous far fetched and totally out of touch salaries? How can the likes of Rooney be worth, reportedly, £170,000 PER WEEK in this day and age. None of them are worth the money! It's a disgrace and it certainly doesn't breed good players!

England are a disgrace to wonder capello, who can make them play with a strategy instead of doing helter skelter! Their defence is non-existent. May be less pay and more education will help, America gets the best via college scholarship, and if you watched them vs Ghana, you would see tactic in their game, not luck. Boo England. Hail Capello, go coach coachable teams,not this one. I rest my case.

Jeremiah. On today's performance, I'm sure that there's many getting a shade over £64 per week in the dole queues of this County who would be happy to play for far less than the disgusting sums these players get; and they'd probably do a far better job to boot! It's indefensible to say this lot are worth any where near what they get, they are not!

England is a very average team with some trumpeters around them. They say Germany does not have *star* players. But has anyone seen, for instance, how disciplined and consistently Klose plays and scores (even in the last World Cup)? If Klose was from England, they would have knighted him already.. and then he would start playing like Rooney.

Where to start ? !
1. Do not blame Fabio. He can only work with the 'monkeys' (Lions ?... not !) he has to choose from.
2.Introduce goal line technology... at 2-2 it could have been another ball game !
3. Ditch the Three Lions symbol ?... Lions ? What Lions ! Not since Mexico '70 has any Eng. team had so much as three lions in their ranks.
Predictions
1. Harking back to '66 (and depending on the opponents WW2) will continue... yawn, yawn, yawn !
2. At Euro '96 one predicted English failure for a generation if we failed to win that with home advantage. We are half way through that generation !
3. The hero's of '66 will be dead... before Eng. win their next major trophy !
England... same old, same old, same old... !

Well I never thought I'd end up agreeing with someone called winniethepooh; but never a truer word said!

And Jeremiah, I'm over it!... and Rooney will never be worth the wage he gets, never! We pay all of these so called 'talented celebrities' way too much!

Jeremiah, we lost because the money that saturates the game via Murdoch TV rights and fleecing gullible fans (like yourself) has meant that the English players in the club sides (few) when they get together are too partisan / distracted / unenthused / spoilt / arrogant to be able to pull together. Breaking up the TV rights monopoly and allowing free to air matches would help bring football back to the people and heart back to football, but meantime keep supporting your corporate masters like a good slave. And ye he will probably play 'like a Trojan' for Money United. Fine old world.

they were either shit or mutinous or both
nine of em should never play for us again

I reckon Terry organised this shambles

because he hasn't got over being stripped of the captaincy

The Ref should've gone to Specsavers!