Sunday, June 11, 2006

Sven gets it wrong again!

Now in case you haven't noticed the football World Cup started on Friday and England have sent a team. Well half a team actually when you consider the injured players and the reserves like Stewart Downing who isn't even good enough for the premiership let alone the England team.

Anyway yesterday afternoon England played their first game, against Paraguay, watched by around 25 million people. And they were crap!

The first half was okay, Paraguay scored an own goal and to help us even more their goalkeeper took it upon himself to injure himself in the sixth minute. We made quite a few chances and could have evn scored a couple of times had our players had any idea what to do in front of the goal.

In the second half Paraguay started a little bit better, lets face it they could hardly of got any worse, but 25 million people across the country were looking forward to England scoring and getting a good start in the tournament.

So what does the prat of a manager do? Takes off a striker and replaces him with a midfielder! And not just any midfielder, but Stuwart Downing, the second worse player to have ever worn an England shirt! I'm not including John Barnes there because he didn't actually play, he just watched.

So then it all started going wrong and Paraguay took up residence in our half of the field. Now for anyone with half a brain it was obvious that our system wasn't working and that we badly needed another striker on the pitch. Unfortunately Sven hasn't got half a brain so he took off Joe Cole, an attacking midfielder, and replaced him with the worse player to ever where an England shirt, Owen Hargreaves.

Now Owen hargreaves has had 31 caps for England and in that time has made one tackle and once, about two years ago I think it was, actually managed to pass a ball to a man in a white shirt. Unfortunately we were playing against Germany and we were wearing red but at least he tried! The man is a liabillity!

So of course things got worse again. Luckily we held out and got the three points but the performance was terrible. Thank god this manager is going!

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