LOL good ritual
Like you Dawn i put on my England top but we also put the lucky can of Stella on top of the TV :D

I reckon, Englands last day at the world cup today.

yes but Darla is A CHAMPION :D

Well USA are out, shame really .... I couldnt watch the last few minutes as the laptop died due to the overtime.... so dashed to the office and my kind fellow JTers posted the remaining few minutes in updates for me while I pbp :D

I do feel worried about England v Germany... I just have to keep thinking positive , like when we scroed 5 goals against them. We can do it.... positive whilst knees r shaking.

Dawn

I hope you are right.

If Germany don't knock them out today, I'll have to deal with this 'we're gonna win it! 1966! Beat the old enemy!' attitude and to be honest I just cannot be arsed.

Can't wait until 14th August for domestic football to start again!

You can just 'not be arsed' with the media over-hyping things you know. I hate the English media with a passion but I still support the national team.

I totally agree with you. And I know you're a good guy who's not stupid so I'll spare you the little details.

However, I just feel no attachment to the national side and never have. It's bad I know but I can't help it.

England - Germany...wow...what a match!

How the **** the ref couldn't see the goal?!?!?!?!?!

So, I hope England will now push stupid FIFA to use technology in 21. century.

Video technology bores me and bores Sepp Blatter. It'll never be implemented. That's what he said. Wrong but it's what he says that goes.

You dont need to have video techonology for this. Just use RFID chip techonology. It can instantly send a signal when the ball goes in the goal to the judge...

Bayern Munich 4 - England 1

What a joy!

Stupid arrogant English cunts. By that I mean the national team as I love England in every other respect. Just stupid arrogant cunts. So glad to see them kicked out by some kids...especially since most play for the one and only BAYERN MUENCHEN!

We deserved that excrutional beating :(

What a load of shite. Germany made us look like a pub team. It was school ground football. The English media build the national team up like they're the best team in the world. But let's face it, though we have some great individuals, a group of good individuals doesn't make a good team. Well done Germany you deserved it. You're team work has always been admirable, but my god did we make it easy for you.

We weren't great against the mighty team that was Slovenia. A sorry day for English footbal!

After that display, I'll join y'all in saying good riddance. That was absolutely abysmal. We need Redknapp in charge and some players who feel a little pride when they pull on an England shirt.

Capello's thinking is just baffling. I said it at the time and Redkapp said it afterwards - we need two goals and he brings on Heskey for Defoe?!?!? WTF?!?!

Germany were great and if they end up playing the Argentines in the QFs, it'll be interesting to see how they fair against above-average opposition.

What a f**king joke! :roll:

Germany totally outplayed England, I won't comment anymore as you all commented on it.

I am sick now waiting for Argentina - Mexico.

A brief guide (according to the Sun) to England's World Cup 2010.

Qualify

"We're going to win it we is"

1st Match

"JABULANI!!!!" "The USA are actually quite good"

2nd match

"Sack Capello, send Rooney home, bomb Algiers"

3rd match

"We're going to win it we is"

Get drawn against Germany

"every useless statistic about England and Germany matches, a few World War jokes"

After Germany game

"Why wasn't Rooney on the plane to Africa?" "Sack Capello and then hang him from a lamppost"

What a game today !!
Germany has a great team, even though the English second goal could have changed something....

I hate the impression others may get at the seemingly 'clutching at straws' reference of the disallowed goal but it may have changed it considerably, we'll never know.

I'd like to think that, had it been 2-2, we wouldn't have had 9 players on the edge of the Germans' penalty area in the second half and left ourselves open to such ruthless (and inevitable) counter-attacks.

We defended woefully though and never had a team that could go all the way whereas the Germans do so the right team went through.

yep , I think this did change our attitude and affect the players in a negative sense...

Tennis and NFL have play backs so we could do that ......

In general I have been disappointed by England, they didnt seem to have any heart and Lampard and Gerrard team just doesnt work...

Where was Rooney.... didnt seem to turn up...

Completely outclassed....

Maybe we need a young team with some heart not pound signs!

Dawn

The officiating is a joke! I didn't think it could get any worse than it did earlier with Lampard's disallowed effort but how the hell was Tevez not given offside?!?

Love the fact it was shown on the big screen though and the sh*t that followed. You watch Sepp 'Twatflap' Blatter suddenly change his stance on using technology. How can you argue against it after today's games?

Awful again today.

Rooney has been terrible every game. I wouldn't of even started him.

And again another result that could be changed if the offside was given.... Shame.

I totally agree Tevez was offsite but how can you know the match could have been different? Maybe I saw another match but Mexico didn't do too much from their part in the 1st half apart from the ball that hit the goal post but then I didn't see too many clear chances, yes they improved and went for it in the 2nd. Anyway...

Now we'll play against the Germans again...Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!

It was a sequence of events, in the beginning of the match both teams were in the same level, than the offside goal came, the Mexicans got really nervous, than the defender's mistake came....than....

But you know, not that I'm really complaining, of course it was not something intentional. Sometimes this kind of situations just add more to the magic of the spectacle that is a football match. It has pain, anger, tears and happiness..... just magical !!

Exactly. The Mexicans were taking the game to Argentina and, in my eyes as a neutral, created the better chances. Then the goal happened and it threw the Mexicans' concentration. They were angry and rightly so but that meant they weren't fully focused on the game and I think that lead to the mistake for the second goal.

Two massive decisions in two separate games that completely influenced how the remainder of the games would have played out. Whether the end results would have been different, who knows but the Mexicans can feel slightly robbed of at least having the opportunity to play a 'fair' game of football.

It's bizarre how the officiating that started out so good in the early group games has suddenly gone AWOL. Look at the Kaka sending off too. An absolute disgrace.

So its the last minute of a Newcastle game which could decide a european place/Newcastle staying up,the same thing happens with a disallowed goal and it wouldnt bother you?

No, sorry. You misunderstood me. The goal-line technology bores me simply because I feel no measurement will ever be implemented to make the football world happy.

I agree that Lampard's effort should have resulted in a goal and the fact it didn't was a huge moment in the tournament.

However, referring to your comment about Newcastle...of course it'd bother me. It would bother me massively. Thing is, though, a similar incident occured for Newcastle in 2009 (goal disallowed for a non-existant push) which led to a loss on the penultimate day.

So yeah, in a way I can see how England fans feel.

*Reading my post again, yes, it's misleading compared to what I said in this post. Sorry for the confusion.

fair enough

The wrong decisions made today by the referee and his officials can be seen week in week out all over the world.

What makes people think England are so special that they can suddenly change FIFA's mind?

Goal line technology or video referees would take the power away from FIFA and their corrupt agenda. It's not going to happen.

Well done to the Germans we played terrible. That's was Lampards best effort? really come on that was just poor. They are supposed to be top class players? They get paid too much IMO.

The problem is at the root of our game.
We have kids being told to pass as soon as they get the ball, rather than learn to take players on.
Look at how comfortable the South American teams are on the ball.

It's all well and good being able to juggle the ball 400 times, but if you can't beat a player, tackle a player or even pass the ball properly it's pointless.

We have been shocking throughout the tournament and deserved to get the spanking we got.
No doubt about it, had the goal been allowed, it would have been a completely different story. We'd probably have gone on to win, but we'd then have been battered by Argentina anyway.

Capello is clueless when it comes to finding a way to change the game.
He's too faithful to the big name players, rather than picking players in their natural positions. Talk about square pegs in round holes!!!

Hardly any of the 23 man squad play in a rigid 4-4-2 formation for their clubs, yet Fabio proceeds with this style!

Germany Vs Argentina

Brazil Vs Holland

wow :)

Absolutely furious I am gonna miss a good chunk of the Japan game today. School is being a twat so I miss the first half an hour or so.

Ditto! I have a bday party on Saturday, I just don't know what excuse to make to watch the match! :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...10/8771294.stm

;)

Absolutely gutted. No team deserved to win least of all them. Referee wanted to break any possible flow created in the game and I genuinely thought the game was Japan's in the last minute of extra time with that chance.

They should make it that whenever the ball crosses the line, it lights up the goal. No need for video referee's.

Situation was the same as before Lampards disallowed goal. You have to play to the situation not what might have been.