Stupid Reasons Why England Lost
If you were watching last night's encounter between England and Portugal, you would have been wishing you were a wizard and can use one of the unforgivable curses. Unless of course, you were rooting for Portugal.
I pulled my hair and prayed for divine intervention, bit my nails and looked down in desperation. But alas, the English went out due to......
1. Stupid referee
Which coffeeshop you got your referee license from I do not know. Rooney certainly did not deserved to be red-carded. Yellow definitely. But RED?! Which part of what he did looked like he deserved a red card?! The push, or the look of contempt on his face for you? To further compound your mistake, you did not award England with a penalty in extra time when Lenon was brought down. It was a legitimate penalty yet you waved play on.
2. Stupid coach
Look at the formation he played England in - 1 striker up front. Dont you wish you could have hex him with a few jinxes? How to win with 1 striker? He had to bring Peter Crouch for Wayne Rooney, who wasted oxygen just by being on the field. He was totally INEFFECTIVE. So from one striker up front, England was virtually playing with 1/4 of a striker. And my grandmother can tell you that this will not win you matches. In extra-time, he was placidly watching the match in a state of zen. Compare him to Steve McLaren who was gesturing wildly, drawing on the board and frantically thinking of desperate moves.
3. Stupid Carragher, Gerrard and Lampard
For missing their penalty kicks. More so for Carragher who was brought on just for the penalty kicks. They should be made to pay for their own tickets back home.
If only the rest of the team played like Owen Hargreaves .....
And I am looking forward to see the reception Ronaldo will get when EPL season starts. While it is obvious that the man loves Portugal, he appears to have forgotten that his paymasters are English.
posted by As Time Goes By at 1:32 PM
4 Comments:
I agree only partially with your reasoning.
1) Carragher wasn't to blame. Come on, putting a defender on in the dying minutes to take a penalty? One who has taken only two penalties in his professional career?
2) Gerrard: he screwed up but England made it that far thanks to him. He never played to his full potential because he was played OUT OF POSITION either as a withdrawn striker or as a holding midfielder.
3) Lampard: one of the worst players in the England first XI. Had the most shots of ANY player from ANY country in the whole tournament. Number of goals? ZERO.
4) Referee: yeah he should have given the penalty. But Rooney did stamp on Carvalho's *alls and deserved to be sent off.
5) Rooney: he screwed up big-time. Shouldn't have lost his temper. But excusable because he was understandably frustrated at being alone up front (only 20 years old mind you). He's also no hitman like Alan Shearer was. Different type of striker. Can't be played alone up front (Shearer was never played as a sole striker anyway).
6) Sven: the most highly-paid (4 million pounds a year), over-rated England manager ever. 4-5-1 is a stupid formation to play because the players are not familiar with this formation. And against Portugal? They're primarily a defensive side, so you need 4-4-2 to break them down. Tactically inept, poor motivator, ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS. And guess what? McClaren's taking over. More of the same. How many trophies have they won between them? TWO. The FA should have hired Big Phil. At least we know that Scolari is a winner. England are NEVER going to win anything if the FA doesn't get the right manager. And I say this even though I am a fanatical England supporter. VERY FRUSTRATED.
PS: You are better hope that Ronald doesn't get that much stick during the upcoming EPL season. Man U need his creativity.
Typo:
You had better hope...
I would careless mistakes.
Owen is down, Beckham is off, Rooney is out.
Because of that, England lose.
But I doubt Por will be beaten badly by Franch.
Hey hey.. Calm down, gal..
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