The International Football Thread

[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

What I don't understand is why Roy doesn't trust Jagielka and now Clyne over Phil Jones and fucking Chris Smalling...

Bar having Terry, Clyne-Cahill-Jagielka-Shaw is probably the best back line available to England.

[iseah100 5,612]

What I don't understand is why Roy doesn't trust Jagielka and now Clyne over Phil Jones and fucking Chris Smalling...

Bar having Terry, Clyne-Cahill-Jagielka-Shaw is probably the best back line available to England.

Bertrand>Shaw

[Special Juan 27,439]

Typical England, played shite, scrape a win and the media wanking off silly about how the played "Really Well"

[hamad138 190]

Typical England, played shite, scrape a win and the media waking off silly about how the played "Really Well"

Yea lol the top teams will murder england

[Duppy Conqueror 1,494]

I don`t bother with listening or reading the media for any football if they went to college/uni instead of playing the game at any high level or have any connection with Liverpool fc.

but it`s not surprising that English based media should talk mostly about English football. if we had a strong enough interest in other nations football related matters I`m sure the media do build up their players and knock them down just as much.

[Special Juan 27,439]

Ben Gibson facing his own goal when the ball comes over, 1-0 Italy and now 2-0 in 2 minutes.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Come on England ffs!

[zolayes 14,489]

game over ,, not really a shock

[LDN Blue 7,903]

It's incredible really how broken English football is. Horrible if you're a young player trying to make it here, there's simply no environment for these kids to make the steps up from u19 to u21 to seniors.

Anyway, the usual rhetoric and excuses will come out and nothing will progress. We're lucky the PL can still attract foreign stars, albeit at a declining rate.

[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

RLC for Ings please. 4-3-3.

[Viper22 2,418]

Lol the England youth team taking after their senior counterparts in as much as they're being a pathetic group of losers.

[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

Lol the England youth team taking after their senior counterparts in as much as they're being a pathetic group of losers.

And having a shit manager who leaves his best players on the bench?

[Thendo 1,088]

GET IN! Sweden through to the semi finals in the u-21 european championship. Who would have thought that with the group we were in? Amazing fighting spirit!

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

It's incredible really how broken English football is. Horrible if you're a young player trying to make it here, there's simply no environment for these kids to make the steps up from u19 to u21 to seniors.

Anyway, the usual rhetoric and excuses will come out and nothing will progress. We're lucky the PL can still attract foreign stars, albeit at a declining rate.

Excellent post.

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

The last England 21 coaches Pearce and now Southgate very moderate careers as coach/manager. Yet the F.A. decide they should be in charge of England's best young players why?. Surely it's jobs for the boys and they get these jobs simply because there ex England internationals. They keep saying there should be a root and branch clear out at the F.A. well they can start by making the next England 21's coach a young and up and coming coach like Karl Robinson. Not some failed old has been. I bet someone like David Platt will be the next coach the English F.A are so backward looking it's unreal.

[zolayes 14,489]

GET IN! Sweden through to the semi finals in the u-21 european championship. Who would have thought that with the group we were in? Amazing fighting spirit!

its all down to size the biggest and richest countries get through ........ Sweden Denmark and Portugal

[Special Juan 27,439]

Southgate said "We are progressing and moving in the right direction"

[LDN Blue 7,903]

The last England 21 coaches Pearce and now Southgate very moderate careers as coach/manager. Yet the F.A. decide they should be in charge of England's best young players why?. Surely it's jobs for the boys and they get these jobs simply because there ex England internationals. They keep saying there should be a root and branch clear out at the F.A. well they can start by making the next England 21's coach a young and up and coming coach like Karl Robinson. Not some failed old has been. I bet someone like David Platt will be the next coach the English F.A are so backward looking it's unreal.

Absolutely.

What's shocking is one of the excuses was that Sterling & co weren't playing. But hell look at that Italy team, they didn't have a single 'senior' player who was part of Italy's XI in their u21s and still made easy work of England.

They have to stop, imo, paying these kids so much!! There are 16-19 year olds making more money, in a week, than most people will ever make in a year! How exactly is that meant to keep them motivated? You see Sterling rejecting a £100,000/year contract and think how can anyone offer so much money to a kid?