how the hell do you work that out gerrard is playing well for us

i would have him above couch anyday

id move crouch to goalkeeper and green upfront

poor bugger must be nearly falling asleep

Were they booing Beckham?

"He has a long contract and any club can forget about bidding for him. They can offer £40m or even £50m, we don’t want to sell."

That was just SKY's twist on it, there's the quote, don't let that get in the way of you laughing, though.

Thought they were all saying 'shoot', seen as they all still idolize him

I think they were shouting "shoot".

He was probably England's best player. He or Johnson anyway, nobody else played that well TBH.

There was only Rooney's second goal that didn't come from an Andorran mistake.

Does Benitez have the strength / power to overrule the owners'/Chief Exec's decision? A bit like Fergie could tell Gill that Ronaldo wasn't for sale and therefore, he wasn't leaving.

Yeah, must've been, I thought it was strange at the time.

Had the volume on low as couldn't be frigged listening to that sheite commentary but briefly turned it up and heard it.

I think there all getting carried away again, you'd think they'd learn wouldn't ya when referring to England's WC chances...

I mean they've only played one great team and that was Spain and look what happened there...

To be fair, if they'd have pushed up like any half decent (even a Sunday league team) would have done, they'd have trapped him offside.

Jimmy Greaves was right in what he said though, legend.

You mean the mighty Andorra and Kazakhstan aren't great?

Well I don't think we're in a position where we [ihave[/i to sell key players, so I don't see why the board would overrule his decision. I'm sure one of the key reasons he signed the new deal was due to him having more control, more of an impact on the decisions being made at the top. From what I've read about his new deal, Benitez finally has similar powers to those of Ferguson and Wenger at their current clubs, so I guess if Rafa wants to keep Masch, Rafa keeps Masch.

He done well, was a little predictable in the way he played, but it seemed everybody was tonight. It's hard to impress against such garbage negativity, they were like Stoke, only they couldn't really defend.

Fair enough.

I'm thinking of moving to Andorra for a few years to get citizenship, I wouldn't mind a crack at their team. Even if it's just as waterboy, I'm sure its whole population were either on the field or bench tonight.

Anybody hear Clive's interesting fact about the life span of the Andorran's?

Seemed like half of their team were OAP's or students, I'm sure a young'un like yourself could show 'em a few tricks from the 5-a-side game

Nope, would I die young?



It's 6-a-side.



Anyway, after my first pre-season training session tonight (for 11-a-side) my calf is f*cked, damn alcohol and takeaways.

Highest average life span of any country in the world, so you could well exceed somebody like Maldini in your career, even on a diet of alcohol and takeaways

Get in there.



I did hear that the players all had full time jobs (and one that didn't even have a club

), which means they're not full time footballers = no training and no strict diets etc. Perfectttt. Where can I get a flight from?

I've said it before and will say it again.

Crouch got into the England side because he played for Liverpool.

He was wa*k tonight. For a tall man he has virtually no heading ability and his close control beggars belief. I think most of us on here could have scored his goal and apart from that he managed to look clumsy and inept - even more than usual.

He got nutmegged by a cross from a team mate FFS.

Get rid now before he embarasses us in SA.

Agreed

I shudder to think how he'd perform against Brazil and the likes. It's one thing to score against Andorra but imagine him against the big boys.

Still, there must be a bit of morale in the Engand camp. Funny what a change of manager can do for you.

Oh Dear Argentina.

Messi misses from 10 yards, Tevez misses a penalty and then they concede twice in the last 20 mins !.

Can't see them winning the WC. They have an abundance of attacking talent, but lack balance and a decent defence and 'keeper. The side they had in 06 should have walked the world cup then, but now most of their defenders have aged and past their best, Riquelme isn't playing and they just look clueless. Seems their side is forever changing.