World Cup 2018

Corazon de Leon wrote:

PES Fan wrote:

Drumstick wrote:Anyone else watching the documentary on BBC2? What the press did to Sven was strawberry floating unforgivable.

Sven also had the small issue of not being able to keep his dick in his pants.

Capello was hounded, but not to the extent of Sven because he wasn’t going around cheating on his wife. Sven made himself a easy target by doing that

You think it's acceptable for the press to do what they did because Eriksson's private life was in disarray?

He thinks Sven was married so I’m not sure we should take what he said seriously.

Corazon de Leon wrote:

PES Fan wrote:

Drumstick wrote:Anyone else watching the documentary on BBC2? What the press did to Sven was strawberry floating unforgivable.

Sven also had the small issue of not being able to keep his dick in his pants.

Capello was hounded, but not to the extent of Sven because he wasn’t going around cheating on his wife. Sven made himself a easy target by doing that

You think it's acceptable for the press to do what they did because Eriksson's private life was in disarray?

Read what I said. He made himself a easy target.

He was bedding high profile women who then sold their story to the press. So of course the press were going to go after him. As England manager you are always a target and he made himself a easier target due to cheating on his wife. Capello wasn’t treated the same as Sven was he? I rarely saw anything about Capello on the front page. Maybe because he wasn’t going around bedding TV presenters and his secretary.

Moggy wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:

PES Fan wrote:

Drumstick wrote:Anyone else watching the documentary on BBC2? What the press did to Sven was strawberry floating unforgivable.

Sven also had the small issue of not being able to keep his dick in his pants.

Capello was hounded, but not to the extent of Sven because he wasn’t going around cheating on his wife. Sven made himself a easy target by doing that

You think it's acceptable for the press to do what they did because Eriksson's private life was in disarray?

He thinks Sven was married so I’m not sure we should take what he said seriously.

Alright girlfriend then.

Not sure it makes any difference. Cheating is still a banana splitish thing to do to anyone.

I lost a lot of respect for Giggs as a man when his whole story came out.

PES Fan wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:

PES Fan wrote:

Drumstick wrote:Anyone else watching the documentary on BBC2? What the press did to Sven was strawberry floating unforgivable.

Sven also had the small issue of not being able to keep his dick in his pants.

Capello was hounded, but not to the extent of Sven because he wasn’t going around cheating on his wife. Sven made himself a easy target by doing that

You think it's acceptable for the press to do what they did because Eriksson's private life was in disarray?

Read what I said. He made himself a easy target.

He was bedding high profile women who then sold their story to the press. So of course the press were going to go after him. As England manager you are always a target and he made himself a easier target due to cheating on his wife. Capello wasn’t treated the same as Sven was he? I rarely saw anything about Capello on the front page. Maybe because he wasn’t going around bedding TV presenters and his secretary.

He wasn’t married, he had no wife.

Your argument is basically the same as “well what did she expect to happen wearing a short skirt like that!”.

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Moggy wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:

PES Fan wrote:

Drumstick wrote:Anyone else watching the documentary on BBC2? What the press did to Sven was strawberry floating unforgivable.

Sven also had the small issue of not being able to keep his dick in his pants.

Capello was hounded, but not to the extent of Sven because he wasn’t going around cheating on his wife. Sven made himself a easy target by doing that

You think it's acceptable for the press to do what they did because Eriksson's private life was in disarray?

He thinks Sven was married so I’m not sure we should take what he said seriously.

Alright girlfriend then.

Not sure it makes any difference. Cheating is still a banana splitish thing to do to anyone.

I lost a lot of respect for Giggs as a man when his whole story came out.

It’s a banana splitish thing to do, but it’s nothing to do with anybody else. The papers ought to leave people’s personal lives alone, unless there is a reason to bring it up, e.g. a politician preaching family values while cheating.

It runs close to victim blaming - cheating is a horrible, scummy thing to do and I have no respect for Sven as a man, but very few people deserve to be dragged over hot coals like he was, especially by Mazher Mahmood. Sven wasn't one of them.

Moggy wrote:

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Moggy wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:

PES Fan wrote:

Drumstick wrote:Anyone else watching the documentary on BBC2? What the press did to Sven was strawberry floating unforgivable.

Sven also had the small issue of not being able to keep his dick in his pants.

Capello was hounded, but not to the extent of Sven because he wasn’t going around cheating on his wife. Sven made himself a easy target by doing that

You think it's acceptable for the press to do what they did because Eriksson's private life was in disarray?

He thinks Sven was married so I’m not sure we should take what he said seriously.

Alright girlfriend then.

Not sure it makes any difference. Cheating is still a banana splitish thing to do to anyone.

I lost a lot of respect for Giggs as a man when his whole story came out.

It’s a banana splitish thing to do, but it’s nothing to do with anybody else. The papers ought to leave people’s personal lives alone, unless there is a reason to bring it up, e.g. a politician preaching family values while cheating.

He was a high profile celeb. There is no such thing as a private life when you are in his position. He was even happy to discuss these affairs in his autobiography ffs.

I’m just stating the facts like if he managed to keep his dick in his pants like Capello and the tons of other England managers before and after him then he probably would have avoided this unwanted attention. He probably would have spent more time on the back pages rather than front pages.

And these scandals always conveniently seemed to break right before a big tournament. banana splits of the highest order.

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Moggy wrote:

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Moggy wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:

PES Fan wrote:

Drumstick wrote:Anyone else watching the documentary on BBC2? What the press did to Sven was strawberry floating unforgivable.

Sven also had the small issue of not being able to keep his dick in his pants.

Capello was hounded, but not to the extent of Sven because he wasn’t going around cheating on his wife. Sven made himself a easy target by doing that

You think it's acceptable for the press to do what they did because Eriksson's private life was in disarray?

He thinks Sven was married so I’m not sure we should take what he said seriously.

Alright girlfriend then.

Not sure it makes any difference. Cheating is still a banana splitish thing to do to anyone.

I lost a lot of respect for Giggs as a man when his whole story came out.

It’s a banana splitish thing to do, but it’s nothing to do with anybody else. The papers ought to leave people’s personal lives alone, unless there is a reason to bring it up, e.g. a politician preaching family values while cheating.

He was a high profile celeb. There is no such thing as a private life when you are in his position. He was even happy to discuss these affairs in his autobiography ffs.

I’m just stating the facts like if he managed to keep his dick in his pants like Capello and the tons of other England managers before and after him then he probably would have avoided this unwanted attention. He probably would have spent more time on the back pages rather than front pages.

He wasn’t a “high profile celeb” he was a football manager.

I understand that the press report on things like this. The point is that they shouldn’t, it’s not relevant to their jobs.

Tunisia manager's take on Dele:

He is an excellent player. A great player, he is the future of the English national team. He can play anywhere, in midfield, behind the forward or as a forward. He is better than, say, Philippe Coutinho. It's very important because we know about the link-up play between Alli and Kane, they find each other easily on the pitch. They play together all season so that's very important. If we manage to split this partnership on the pitch, it will be very good. This is the message I'm telling my players.

Moggy wrote:

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Moggy wrote:

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Moggy wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:

PES Fan wrote:

Drumstick wrote:Anyone else watching the documentary on BBC2? What the press did to Sven was strawberry floating unforgivable.

Sven also had the small issue of not being able to keep his dick in his pants.

Capello was hounded, but not to the extent of Sven because he wasn’t going around cheating on his wife. Sven made himself a easy target by doing that

You think it's acceptable for the press to do what they did because Eriksson's private life was in disarray?

He thinks Sven was married so I’m not sure we should take what he said seriously.

Alright girlfriend then.

Not sure it makes any difference. Cheating is still a banana splitish thing to do to anyone.

I lost a lot of respect for Giggs as a man when his whole story came out.

It’s a banana splitish thing to do, but it’s nothing to do with anybody else. The papers ought to leave people’s personal lives alone, unless there is a reason to bring it up, e.g. a politician preaching family values while cheating.

He was a high profile celeb. There is no such thing as a private life when you are in his position. He was even happy to discuss these affairs in his autobiography ffs.

I’m just stating the facts like if he managed to keep his dick in his pants like Capello and the tons of other England managers before and after him then he probably would have avoided this unwanted attention. He probably would have spent more time on the back pages rather than front pages.

He wasn’t a “high profile celeb” he was a football manager.

I understand that the press report on things like this. The point is that they shouldn’t, it’s not relevant to their jobs.

These stories sell papers, so they never are going to stop. It’s not a Sunday league manager.

When Rooney was getting ridiculed on here last year for cheating. I didn’t see you telling everyone to stop because it’s his private life.

Sven was clearly happy to discuss these affairs in his autobiography. Which is a weird thing to do for a ex manager or player as he could have told hundreds of other stories about his life as a manager rather than his sex scandals. He could have told us why he picked Vassell. Even Rooney made no mention of his infidelities in his book.

Drumstick wrote:And these scandals always conveniently seemed to break right before a big tournament. banana splits of the highest order.

To be fair there never was one under Hodgson that I can recall in the last three tournaments.

There’s a big difference between a paper prying into somebody’s personal life and that person choosing to write about it themselves. Especially when they write about it after the papers have already ripped them apart for it.

I understand why the papers do it. I understand they are always going to do it. But I disagree that they should do it.

Drumstick wrote:Tunisia manager's take on Dele:

He is an excellent player. A great player, he is the future of the English national team. He can play anywhere, in midfield, behind the forward or as a forward. He is better than, say, Philippe Coutinho. It's very important because we know about the link-up play between Alli and Kane, they find each other easily on the pitch. They play together all season so that's very important. If we manage to split this partnership on the pitch, it will be very good. This is the message I'm telling my players.

Didn't realise Danny Murphy had made the switch from pundit to international manager.

I was listening to BBC's world cup daily podcast and Danny M was saying some whoppers again. He thinks Germany were lucky to win the last world cup and he thought Spain v Portugal would have been cautious and boring.

Terry butcher was on the same podcast and the sheer hatred for Germany from both of them was bizarre. Butcher reveling with glee that he got to put the result on the official office scoreboard. Germany's biggest rival is Holland, they don't give a toss about England.

Well they do give a toss, just less of a toss that's all.

The Sun

twitter.com/thesun/status/1008459770783780864

Have they fallen for a tweet from that parody Wetherspoons account?

twitter.com/Wetherspoon__UK/status/1008389230823903232

Mafro wrote:Have they fallen for a tweet from that parody Wetherspoons account?

twitter.com/Wetherspoon__UK/status/1008389230823903232

Amazing. So many dumb people in England (sadly)

PES Fan wrote:

PsychicSykes wrote:

twitter.com/rylandjames/status/1008415618188611584

The fact he's happy to mention it's something he's already discussed doesn't bode well for Germany.

Yet all the experts seem to think Sane being dropped was the problem. Like he would have somehow stopped the Mexican counter attacks. Mexico if they made the right pass or shot could have easily scored 3 in the first half. Sane was dropped because he constantly played shite for Germany. English fans moan when players are picked on reputation for England.

tbf if Germany had the option to switch to proper wingers they could have used them for width after Mexico packed the middle instead of having Kimmich being way too far forward all the time.

(btw Delph doing the midfielder to fullback thing just as well has really put a damper on all the hype around Kimmich and his versatility for me

Irene Demova wrote:

PES Fan wrote:

PsychicSykes wrote:

twitter.com/rylandjames/status/1008415618188611584

The fact he's happy to mention it's something he's already discussed doesn't bode well for Germany.

Yet all the experts seem to think Sane being dropped was the problem. Like he would have somehow stopped the Mexican counter attacks. Mexico if they made the right pass or shot could have easily scored 3 in the first half. Sane was dropped because he constantly played shite for Germany. English fans moan when players are picked on reputation for England.

tbf if Germany had the option to switch to proper wingers they could have used them for width after Mexico packed the middle instead of having Kimmich being way too far forward all the time.

(btw Delph doing the midfielder to fullback thing just as well has really put a damper on all the hype around Kimmich and his versatility for me

They had no real holding midfielder to cover the fullbacks when they went forward.

For me they should drop Khedira and Ozil with Gundogan and Goretzka coming in next game. Kroos isn’t a holding midfielder. Khedira was just bombing forward and he’s never been a holding midfielder from whenever I watched him at Juve or Madrid. Atleast with Gundogan he’d actually stay back.

Draxler starting ahead of Reus was another surprise. Lowe seems to be loyal to the old guard. A mistake that Del Bosque made in 2014 and Lippi in 2010. Sometimes you have to freshen things up.