Post-match: Germany vs England|June 27|1/8 finals| [R]

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and Leverkusen too

 

"England have so many top stars in their squad, they'll always be a part and parcel of the international football scene," Mueller noted.

"There are so many alpha males in the squad and it is difficult to have so many alpha males and roll in the same direction but you don't only need chiefs, you also need Indians, those willing to do hard work - that maybe a problem with England that players aren't mentally prepared to go that extra mile for their team."

Capello has since hinted he will bring in a raft of youngsters to shake-up his underperforming squad, a move Mueller backed.

"I don't know how many youngsters England have got to put through but if there are any they will certainly raise the standard of the team," he said.

"You need to have a team that plays as a team and maybe younger players are more subservient and they do what they are required to do."

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2890...-germany-star-thomas-mueller-points-finger-at

 

Dude, not to be a prick or anything but.... you live in Sao Paulo and yet you support Argentina
Of course, you could be Argentine in which case my apologies

 

lol...don't mind that. Last week he was in England, the week before that it said Ghana, before it was Serbia. There is a pattern there.

 

You would think people would catch on when they see this for such a long time.

 

Relax my friend, I edited both, I just overlooked one freaking thing and that's edited too now. You can finally breathe again.

 

I talked to many England fans during the WC 2006 and realized very soon that many of them have nothing in common with their shitty & arrogant yellow press (just been watching a replay of the Sunday game on a BBC tape and can't believe to learn that even those commentators are talking nonsense by stating that "at the best 2 German players would make it into the England squad" ...well, this mentality is probably one of the major reasons for their ongoing failure). Really nice, fair and respectful folks (except for a few idiots who started singing the "10 German bombers" crap in front of a pub). You'll probably not find more gracious & fairer fans in defeat than the English, Scottish and Irish.

The problem is that their media continuously overhype their national team ("we must be the best because we have the best domestic league...") ... what ends up in high pressure for the players (they obviously can't cope with) and disappointment for the supporters.

 

Only that the Manure fans who were so bitter when Bayern knocked them out were not English and SAF was neither English nor Scottish

 

Where did you watch it? I'd like to see that as well.

It really depends I guess. The English can be extreme at both ends, being hooligans or gentlemen. But I agree that most of them are very sportsmanlike. It's just that I live in a German city with lots of English soldiers and well...sometimes they're a little difficult shall we say...

 

Two very risky back passes to Neuer ... otherwise a top performance in my eyes. I'd give him a 2 or 2,5.

 

Thank gawd, I held my breath for almost 12 hours.


As for the curious, I live in Singapore; that's in China for the yank folk.

 

lol...

 

Well, there must be also some Brits who can't take a defeat with grace & fairness ... and the Rangers fan Ferguson surely is one of them.

But those England fans I got to know during the WC 2006 were really nice & fair folks. That's not self-evident when knowing about our rivalry. Apropos rivalry: I think there's a lot of respect for each other despite it or just because of it. Even the yellow press can't destroy that.

 

On a friend's tape (his mom is German, the father English).

Same with Germans. Depends on the blood alcohol content. )

 

Oh, I thought you saw it somewhere online...too bad

 

When I lived in LA, an American girl thought it was in "Yugoslavia", no joke.

 

No one will ever beat my experience....my 10th grade history teacher thought I was from Australia when I told him I grew up in Austria!

 

I have an English friend, she went to Boston to study and said she was from the UK... she was asked if they spoke English there. It's almost too comical to be serious really.

 

I thought being asked if Yugoslavia was in Africa was bad. until I read some of the posts here

 

Someone from my home state...

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So I was told I speak good english for someone who lived in New Zealand....."cos it's not the first language there, right?"


Btw, I used to go through singapore a hell of a lot when I used to travel to Asia. Once went to sentosa, and the cable car that took us there was literally 200 metres off the ground, over harbour, and had one cable loose.

 

When I told people about living in Ecuador they thought it was in Africa, wondered if we lived in huts...

 

Where do you guys find these people??

 

In America...