billymumphrey said:
sam-caddick said:
This.
It's weird because Talksport said Argentina turned our offer down, but that Mail quoted: 'We had been looking to play Uruguay in the first game, but they are now in the play-offs so we are now speaking with other opponents.
So who do we believe??
I hope it's a South American team especially seen as we are going into a world cup in South America, it just makes sense.
With all due respect to Australia, how would playing them improve us or test us? We should be playing as many of the top nations as we can in the time friendlies are available to be played, who knows, we might get some suprise results playing good attacking football which could give us extra confidence going into the competition.
By your logic why would anyone better than England want to play England then?
Surely you'd be happy if Germany jagged you to play Spain then?
Any top nation playing England will get a tough game in a friendly, we would be a decent test for any team.
In recent friendlies against the top nations only Holland has beat us, and that's out of Spain, Brazil (twice) and Italy!
Australia are not going to challenge England, if we can't get another top team along with Germany then why not someone like France? Bosnia? Portugal? to name a few.
England has to do what it can to get the best possible competition to face to let us try our new attacking football on to see what we can do with it against the top players, Australia will not offer that if you ask me!
