England v Hungary | Nations League | Tues 14th June '22

[East Level 2]

If it’s any consolation, and I know that it will be, Scotland won 4.1 away last night. See, things aren’t that bad after all. And my hair is still fabulous.

Good preparation for the games you'll be playing in Qatar later in the year.

 

[SamBlue]

Laughing aside, can someone tell me what the fuck this tournament is about?

To give national teams some opportunity to try players and tactics before tournaments. The quality of opposition and football much better than in qualifiers. The alternative is to go to EUROs and the WC with no preparation whatsoever.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Laughing aside, can someone tell me what the fuck this tournament is about?

Trying to give a bit more gloss to what are basically friendlies?

 

[Lavinda Past]

Are Walker, Stones, Grealish and Sterling overrated and mentally weak ?

None of them ever perform to the same level in an England shirt that they do in a City shirt, or in Jack's case, even in a Villa shirt.

It's about coaching, working as a team, and using a system that gets the best out of every player, not just relying on the supposed stars.

The England players look as if they don't believe in each other. Last night was little better than an assortment of blokes picked off the street half an hour before kick off.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Quite a good shout that - I’d have him at West Ham if Moyes went
England experience and relationship he has with the players etc - I reckon he’d do well for a top 8 team like us

Moyes would always finish between 6th and 8th, even if he had City's squad. Southgate would be relegation fodder every year.

 

[Magicpole]

To give national teams some opportunity to try players and tactics before tournaments. The quality of opposition and football much better than in qualifiers. The alternative is to go to EUROs and the WC with no preparation whatsoever.

Never really affects us as we seldom get there.

 

[Magicpole]

It’s a tournament designed to allow the minnows like San Marino, Luxembourg and Scotland to compete at a more realistic level.

Says the guy whose team just got humiliated at home.

 

[KentBlue]

I didn't see the game but I'm assuming it was as bad as the majority on here seem to think it was?

But none of us should be surprised, not really. The footballing authorities in this country do not live in the 21st Century. They probably still believe Victoria is on the throne, that Jack the Ripper still haunts the dark, heavily-misted back alleys of Whitechapel, and we all still anxiously await the next published edition of 'The Pickwick Papers.'
These are not footballing men, they are the embodiment of the privileged few that roll off the conveyer belt at Eton and other such hallowed places. They belong at Ascot, or at Lords, quaffing champagne and generally confirming that George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is alive and kicking on these dark, satanic mills.

Southgate is yet another in a long line of incompetent sycophants to manage our national side. Appointed by faceless beurocrats, one eye on the stocks and shares and the other on the firm young buttocks of the young maids who clean their palatial offices, for minimum wage.

Fuck them, fuck the England set-up - in footballing terms I'm interested in Manchester City ONLY.

 

[BlueHammer85]

None of them ever perform to the same level in an England shirt that they do in a City shirt, or in Jack's case, even in a Villa shirt.

It's about coaching, working as a team, and using a system that gets the best out of every player, not just relying on the supposed stars.

International football is always disjointed though, what countries actually play free flowing football where the players perform the same they do at club level ? I watched France the other night, Benzema, Mbappe etc were awful - couldn't even control the ball at times.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Moyes would always finish between 6th and 8th, even if he had City's squad. Southgate would be relegation fodder every year.

possibly - I think international managing might have given him some good experiance

but all hypothetical, Moyes is a Hammer