delilah 555
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He's a fox in the box , straight swap for crouchie , Walters , and mad Charlie Adam please
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joemcdokes
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I dislike BSA alot, the blokes obsessed with everything other than winning football matches.
If Defoe played for a fashionable club (a London one especially) these journo's would be waxing lyrical about how wonderful JD is and how he totally deserves his place
Perryqhill
Striker
I think that's quite harsh. He's been largely back up (32 of his appearances as sub) and ignored for the most part when it comes to tournaments until they got a bit desperate around 2010/12 and only played four tournament games. He was never the level we required during the early parts of his career (nor were most others) but never really had a spell of regular starts either. In qualifiers he's scored 8 in 18 World Cup qualifiers and 5 in 9 Euro qualifiers.
A grand total of 186 minutes in tournaments.
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Bagpuss
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For those who cant be arsed to read that waffle I have written a short synopsis of it.
"How dare you pick a player from outside the top 6 Gareth"
hoggs11
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Iv often thought that there is an obsession to have a drogba type england player up front because thats what works in the champions leauge when in fact in tight and sometimes boring international games a goal poacher type forward may be far better such as lineker.
phil
Striker
From what I remember of the game - I thought the rest of the England players were never going to pass to him and certainly seemed unwilling to play a ball for him to move onto. But despite that his first 5 touches (including the kick-off ) included 3 shots - one off target, one on target and one goal! Funny how Mr Guardian man doesn't use that statistic!
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always the way
I don't care what anyone says.. the media clamour for Rashford to go to the last tournament was pure press pressure cos he plays for man utd. I actually thought hodgson had more about him than to give in to those twats but in fact it was the first sign he had lost focus.
the media are absolute tossers when it comes to England backed by the usual armchair moron fans of the top 6 clubs and west ham .
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Pelanty
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Rashford was England's best player at the Euros.
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Pelanty
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Still made more of an impact than most. He deserved the call up his form last spring was electric. Rated the highest of all England players at the Euros here.
http://www.goal.com/euro2016/en/gal...2016/1x2mwlpc9za6d1k7ka1el2kzqf/roy-hodgson/1
Added some much-needed dynamism against Wales and then completing more take-ons than any other player in just four minutes against Iceland. Had he come on earlier, England might have gone through.
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disagree. had he not been shoe horned into the squad to please the press and aforementioned fans we could have taken a natural winger with pace suited to Playing there .
You cant do anything if you haven't been given the ball. Fukin hate pricks who have never played football.
Arcas Left Peg
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Just for info, this is from the vaguely football related satirical email that the Guardian sends out each evening, which relentlessly rips the piss out of whatever was happening each day. It never makes the sports section of the printed paper, and is only findable on the website if you go deliberately looking for it. I recommend reading some of the other articles under the "Fiver" tag. It's the last remnant of decent content in the Guardian.
I personally read it as a pisstake of the whole possession stats based bollocks commentary you'd hear from twats like Sutton, and actually being pretty complimentary to Defoe, precisely because all he does is score goals. Because that's his job. Let's just calm down on the outrage here. Save if for something like the Chronicle which actually deserves it.
I personally read it as a pisstake of the whole possession stats based bollocks commentary you'd hear from twats like Sutton, and actually being pretty complimentary to Defoe, precisely because all he does is score goals. Because that's his job. Let's just calm down on the outrage here. Save if for something like the Chronicle which actually deserves it.
Voice of fair play
Striker
Why Hodgson waited till the last 5 minutes to bring him in remains a massive mystery to me, his pace could have caused them all sorts of problems if brought on earlier, and the players on the field namely Rooney and Kane I had never seen both them play so bad!
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Pelanty
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Was a crazy decision mate! I'm big fans of both but Rooney and Kane had shockers. Rashford could have had the same impact Owen had in 98 if Hodgson had more guts rather than playing it safe.
If you listened to the journo talking about Defoe on Football Weekly this week you would clearly see it wasn't a pisstake. The Fiver is a smug and stale column that is well past it's sell by date.
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Voice of fair play
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Yeah the best we
had looked in major touraments is Owen in 98 and Rooney in 2004 when young talented players played without fear.
Mind saying that the players have to take responsibility for that game against Iceland as well,they totally froze,never seen England players play as bad,Kane was especially a diffrent player.
toosb
Striker
"34-year-old darling of the footballing-focused chattering class, hoary sharpshooter de luxe, golden-booted highwayman who can always be relied upon to stand and deliver: long-in-the-tooth Jermain Silver."
I'd be embarrassed to present that to an editor.
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