English Football Thread! 2006-2007 Season

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Originally Posted by chrisfffan

Frank lamped is selected because he’s been the best midfielder in the premiership for the last 3 years! always getting at least 20 goals a season and setting up i don’t know how many goals.

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The key phrase in your post was "in the Premiership". That sums Lampard up perfectly. He's good in the Premiership. He's great, even. But here's the kicker: England don't play in the Premiership. At international level he has been diabolical for the past 12 months.

Also, Liverpool have more than 60,000 "real" fans, considering that more than one million people turned out for the Champions League victory parade. But plastic fans are an inevitability in football these days, but they pay just as much as real fans do, and apparently moving to Stanley Park is a money-making exercise.

You cannot expect the new buyers to subsidize the club, it needs to pay its way to be viable long term. Stanley Park is a money making exercise but also an economic neccesity to compete with Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Urine let alone other European teams.

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Originally Posted by chrisfffan

Frank lamped is selected because he’s been the best midfielder in the premiership for the last 3 years! always getting at least 20 goals a season and setting up i don’t know how many goals.

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The key phrase in your post was "in the Premiership". That sums Lampard up perfectly. He's good in the Premiership. He's great, even. But here's the kicker: England don't play in the Premiership. At international level he has been diabolical for the past 12 months.


he wasn’t good in the world cup that was a understatement but if you remember he was one of our best players in the European championship where Stevie G didn’t turn up!

True, but that was two and a half years ago, when Darius Vassell was guaranteed to play in every game (usually as a sub). Things change.

i have faith in Lampard but then again i would im a Chelsea fan i don’t know why Steve and Frank cant play together and bomb on forward while Carrick plays the holding role its seems easy to me.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

Why is Fatty Lumpard still an automatic starter?

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And why does GERRARD, get subbed off rather than him? :mad2::mad2:

So he can rest for the game against you lot ;) Xabi didn't play either, ahahaha.

I thought only Gerrard and Dyer even played decent in their game frankly. Phillips for all his pace seems to have little control and the defense had a lot of gaps.

In other news, I was very pleased with the US team's performance and really disappointed to see the poor sportsmanship on the part of the Mexican team as they didn't even shake hands after the match but just left the field.

Bring on the real games I say.


Take care all.

[QUOTE=The Captain;2089545]I thought only Gerrard and Dyer even played decent in their game frankly. Phillips for all his pace seems to have little control and the defense had a lot of gaps.


Wright Phillips plays the same for Chelsea it really annoys me when people say why don’t Chelsea play him more often, he loses the ball all the time and i think we would be lucky to sell him for 5 million that’s all he’s worth at the moment.

Well you do generally tend to lose your touch when you get bought when you're playing at your prime and then get benched for two seasons. :monster:

he has had chances started games and done nothing.

He's proven it to people in the past that he's capable of playing very well, so if his move to Chelsea has squandered his ability then it is obviously his own fault for moving to a side that don't need him and also Chelsea's fault for not managing/coaching him well enough.

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Originally Posted by Loony BoB

He's proven it to people in the past that he's capable of playing very well, so if his move to Chelsea has squandered his ability then it is obviously his own fault for moving to a side that don't need him and also Chelsea's fault for not managing/coaching him well enough.

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Absolutely right. Plenty of other teams were interested in SWP (us included) and could have pretty much guaranteed regular first-team football. If he'd been smart, he'd have gone where the games were, not the silverware, and he'd almost certainly be England's starting right winger today. His last season for Manchester City was fantastic, and I'm sure that form would have continued had his career not ground to a halt at Chelsea. Now England have to make do with an SWP-lite in Aaron Lennon, who isn't bad for a Spurs player, but still not at good as Shaun was a couple of years ago.

Not that I'm blaming the state of our national side on Chelsea. Everyone knows that's our fault. :p

Hey man, Lennon is still awesome and will almost certainly be a big player for the future.

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Originally Posted by Cz

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Originally Posted by Loony BoB

He's proven it to people in the past that he's capable of playing very well, so if his move to Chelsea has squandered his ability then it is obviously his own fault for moving to a side that don't need him and also Chelsea's fault for not managing/coaching him well enough.

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Absolutely right. Plenty of other teams were interested in SWP (us included) and could have pretty much guaranteed regular first-team football. If he'd been smart, he'd have gone where the games were, not the silverware, and he'd almost certainly be England's starting right winger today. His last season for Manchester City was fantastic, and I'm sure that form would have continued had his career not ground to a halt at Chelsea. Now England have to make do with an SWP-lite in Aaron Lennon, who isn't bad for a Spurs player, but still not at good as Shaun was a couple of years ago.

Not that I'm blaming the state of our national side on Chelsea. Everyone knows that's our fault. :p

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some times players just don’t work out at clubs but some players can never take the step up i thought joe cole was the same 2 years ago he was a show pony he would do a trick and just lose the ball all the time he proved me wrong i hope its the same with wright phillips but he doesn’t even beat the first man