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Quote from: NickDRFC on July 04, 2018, 03:27:05 pmAlli is the interesting one for me. I've seen a fair bit of Spurs over the past few years as my mate has a ST, and pretty much every time I have seen him play he's been on the periphery of the game, or given the ball away far too much. However, he always seems to pop up with a vital goal or an assist for Spurs. With England, he also seems to be on the periphery but he doesn't have those "moments" either to justify his place. Add to that that at this World Cup he has never looked quite fit or comfortable and you're left with the question if he justifies his place. Not sure he does but he does do a fair bit of defensive work and if you replaced him with Rashford or Welbeck you'd lose that. RLC and Delph are alternatives but they're more defensive minded so you'd miss that potential spark up top. If he's fit, I'd start him against Sweden and hope he starts firing.Delph is in England at the moment
Alli is the interesting one for me. I've seen a fair bit of Spurs over the past few years as my mate has a ST, and pretty much every time I have seen him play he's been on the periphery of the game, or given the ball away far too much. However, he always seems to pop up with a vital goal or an assist for Spurs. With England, he also seems to be on the periphery but he doesn't have those "moments" either to justify his place. Add to that that at this World Cup he has never looked quite fit or comfortable and you're left with the question if he justifies his place. Not sure he does but he does do a fair bit of defensive work and if you replaced him with Rashford or Welbeck you'd lose that. RLC and Delph are alternatives but they're more defensive minded so you'd miss that potential spark up top. If he's fit, I'd start him against Sweden and hope he starts firing.
It's pretty clear to me from the way games have been refereed that FIFA has told the refs not to flash too many cards. I think in doing so they have done the game and the referees a huge disservice.No-one wants to see cards being thrown around for nothing, but it has meant some really serious dissent has been tolerated.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/worldcup/2018/07/04/world-cup-2018-mark-geiger-colombia-england-radamel-falcao/757567002/f**k ‘em. And Maradona who weighs in probably angling for some discounted coke. They can moan all they want but they had just as much potential to win in the shoot out and blew it...
He's got a f**king cheek the coked up fat Kitson.
I wonder if Colombia's two penalty takes that missed will be murdered, anyone remember Andreas Escobar after he scored the own goal that knocked them out once?
No shame these South Americans'Monumental robbery': Maradona lashes out after England v Colombia gamehttp://news.sky.com/story/monumental-robbery-maradona-lashes-out-after-england-v-colombia-game-11426216
Quote from: Filo on July 04, 2018, 12:17:44 pmI wonder if Colombia's two penalty takes that missed will be murdered, anyone remember Andreas Escobar after he scored the own goal that knocked them out once?I remember it well Filo; it was against USA in 94. I couldn't stop laughing at the dirty drugged-up bas**rds even then.
There's an excellent film called 'The two Escobars' which deserves a watch. It's on You Tube I think.
Quote from: scawsby steve on July 05, 2018, 01:41:41 amQuote from: Filo on July 04, 2018, 12:17:44 pmI wonder if Colombia's two penalty takes that missed will be murdered, anyone remember Andreas Escobar after he scored the own goal that knocked them out once?I remember it well Filo; it was against USA in 94. I couldn't stop laughing at the dirty drugged-up bas**rds even then.It's up to you which teams you prefer but "dirty drugged-up bas**rds"? Where do you get that opinion from?
What?; you don't think Colombian football is dirty?; you must have been watching a different game to me the other night, and they've never been any different.As regards drugs, surely you know what the Colombian economy depends on. There were suspicions that Escobar may have been murdered because of that, rather than the own goal.
Quote from: scawsby steve on July 05, 2018, 08:17:14 pmWhat?; you don't think Colombian football is dirty?; you must have been watching a different game to me the other night, and they've never been any different.As regards drugs, surely you know what the Colombian economy depends on. There were suspicions that Escobar may have been murdered because of that, rather than the own goal.You referred to '94. Not the most yellow carded team per game in that tournement, some of the play was sublime, but the whole team was messed up - see this for example https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/what-really-went-wrong-colombia-usa-94I can't see any evidence that they have always played like they did in that game the other night. Even in this world cup they had 3 yellows in the group stage, and then the red for handball.The drugged up people are the Yanks who buy the stuff and created the drug industry in the first place. Or maybe you can refer to something solid that points to the players being coked up?Several theories on why Escobar was shot. The major factor was the drug thug culture, funded by the US buyers. The immediate reason appears to be more that he was in amongst all that, something kicked off and during the shooting some anger re the goal was expressed.It's widely reported that Escobar was a gent, a sophisticated player, very much the opposite of being "dirty".Whatever you might think about that one game, I can't for the life of me see how you can say the team of '94 were "dirty drugged-up bas**rds", or that they were drugged up the other night. You're way off the mark with thise comments, and maybe didn't mean what you said, or how it comes across. I don't know - maybe you had too much coke when typing
Can't see us beating France, assuming we reach the final - and assuming they do, of course, which I can't see them not doing.