kippaxwarrior said:Got a sneaky feeling it will be same result of the 1950 world cup match........
burntnorton said:I'm American, but not particularly patriot and don't much care for the blind arrogance surrounding the USA Soccerball team.
2-0 or 3-1 to England, easily. They'll press high up the pitch, and force mistakes from the back four and holding midfielders, and will go ahead earlyish, then knock it around for a bit. This is a thoroughly average US side, especially when you look at the back four. Aaron Lennon and Joe Cole against Bocanegra and Spector/Cherrundulo respectively=you're having a laugh.
I actually have Slovenia getting out of the group ahead of the US. They're also a thoroughly average side, but they're very well organized, better at the back, have two decent forward in Novakovic and Ljubijankic and crucially, they play England last when England will have already qualified and will be resting at least some players.
Does anybody else think USA will beat us???
where on this thread has anybody said england have a divine right to win the world cup?.......i personally think argentina or spain will win it. we're talking about the USA though mate...wakey wakey.<br /><br />-- Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:18 pm --<br /><br />skelpomike said:blutone3 said:"And for those of you who are bashing the US team as "twats" and "wanks" grow up and learn a little about US football. It's not the same as it used to be at all. We are a much more organized and skillful squad then we've produced in the past capable of beating SPAIN, which as several have mentioned we're the only ones to have done in the last what is it 40 games now? "
you are and always will be a joke in true football countries,ie; England....
you keep harping on about a bloody friendly that spain werent even the slightest bit interested in you deluded yank!!
waffle on all you like now mate cos you wont be doing it next week,you are there to make the numbers up...soccer?? phwarrrr
This is a typical thing I'd expect an England fan to come away with in a world cup year. Absolutely ridiculous. England are a joke football country. What other nation think they have a divine right to win the WC every time it comes around when they have only one it once, 44 years ago, at home!
ha ha ha fuckin australia indeed.....don't pay much attention to these warm up matches. i'm getting a bit worried now though knowing that they took care of fuckin australia ha ha, cheered me right up that mate.rhysmcfc said:It's blatantly obvious that most people on this board no nothing of football outside England (and not much more in it).
The one biggest thing the USA have over England is they play as a team. Everyone knows their roles and does what is required of them. They easily took care of Australia on Saturday and should of had another goal at least. They defend from the front, a very solid midfield and some good height at the back. Plus they can counter very well.
England will have to play very well to get a result.
stevenryals said:Blake.. in reference to your post about grassroots and whatnot in america.. I can confirm that 100%.. many years ago i decided to start a 'soccer' club for youth players.. we grew slowly over the years, and had around 80 kids in there 3 years ago..
since then.. we have gone from 1 full size field and 80 kids to having nearly 500 kids, 4 full size pitches, 1 for U6, 1 for U8, for for U10 and 1 for U12....
It's been an amazing development.. that's I'm over the moon about.. We are working to sign contracts on more land to build more fields.. we'll see how that goes..
England didnt invent the game.. they invented the rules.. football was being played all over the world, even as early as 400BC in southern China.. but all credit to england for creating the set of rules, most still used today, in the 1860's..
Strong words from someone whose team hasn't won the thing in 44 years.blutone3 said:you are still crappy mouthy inferior yanks....its a joke you lot being there really ,its the fooking world cup,u lot couldnt play footy as long as theres a hole in your .........!!! hahaha
colin's bell helmet said:ha ha ha fuckin australia indeed.....don't pay much attention to these warm up matches. i'm getting a bit worried now though knowing that they took care of fuckin australia ha ha, cheered me right up that mate.rhysmcfc said:It's blatantly obvious that most people on this board no nothing of football outside England (and not much more in it).
The one biggest thing the USA have over England is they play as a team. Everyone knows their roles and does what is required of them. They easily took care of Australia on Saturday and should of had another goal at least. They defend from the front, a very solid midfield and some good height at the back. Plus they can counter very well.
England will have to play very well to get a result.
NEBlue1 said:Sorry if anyone's posted this before, but this makes me laugh and embarrassed for where I'm from in equal measure (note: NSFW - language):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdrhKf6yADs[/youtube]
"Hey man, we're gonna take that soccerball and put it up into the upper 90 of the scorebag to win F-I-F-A!!" /comedyamericanaccent