View Full Version : Was Steve McClaren that bad?
johan neeskens
25 Mar 2009, 09:16 AM
how many sides have ever conceeded 3 goals to a mclaren side?
Loads. Check the Dutch league table.
three lions
25 Mar 2009, 11:54 AM
No it's not like ping-pong, it's only slightly bouncier. The artificial surface favors skillful sides, where as England strung three passes together only a couple of times the entire game.
That shat pitch had nothing to do with skill, and was an embarrasment of a field.. Your lot benefitted by one of the most generous penalty decisions going your way...
three lions
25 Mar 2009, 11:56 AM
Ever heard of inflated scorelines ? We scored a perfectly fine goal only to have it disallowed. At that point we were controlling the match and it would've been 1-1.
All England did was hoof it to Heskey and Owen, no ground play at all. Our techniue and quality of passing was far superior and it was defense that cost us that game.
haha, the more skillful side won, and on a better pitch...
lanman
25 Mar 2009, 02:48 PM
All England did was hoof it to Heskey and Owen,
Yet England had 56% of the possession.
johan neeskens
25 Mar 2009, 05:34 PM
Yet England had 56% of the possession.
Oh FFS. England didn't lose their qualification in the game v Russia. They should have picked up more points way before that game, at home notably, and they've only their players to blame. This is what occasionally happens to football nations that think they have some class of god given right to qualify for international tournaments. Being Dutch I should know.
nicephoras
26 Mar 2009, 05:07 PM
This isn't World Rivalries. Keep it civil.