| Why is watching England 18:11 - Nov 16 with 1422 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
In meaningless games always so depressing? |  |
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| I didn't even know they were playing!! (n/t) on 18:33 - Nov 16 with 1352 views | Bloots |
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| Why is watching England on 18:39 - Nov 16 with 1317 views | vapour_trail |
Good goal, that one. |  |
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| Why is watching England on 18:41 - Nov 16 with 1313 views | MattinLondon |
They’ve made it meaningless by winning the previous seven matches and not conceding. Today is just an effective away performance - sign of a good team. |  | | |
| Why is watching England on 18:42 - Nov 16 with 1313 views | Zx1988 |
It feels like there's a mentality issue that's pervaded the setup for years and years.
Other top European sides regularly stick 7+ past the minnows, whilst we always seem to labour to a 2/3 goal win.
The smaller sides must up their game for England in the same way as they do against France/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany et al, so it must be an England thing, no? |  |
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| Why is watching England on 18:42 - Nov 16 with 1295 views | J2BLUE |
Too much football so games are half paced. Club managers pile on pressure not to overuse their players. Understandably.
Not sure what the answer is. It's always dull outside of big tournaments. |  |
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| Why is watching England on 18:44 - Nov 16 with 1285 views | vapour_trail |
| Why is watching England on 18:42 - Nov 16 by Zx1988 |
It feels like there's a mentality issue that's pervaded the setup for years and years.
Other top European sides regularly stick 7+ past the minnows, whilst we always seem to labour to a 2/3 goal win.
The smaller sides must up their game for England in the same way as they do against France/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany et al, so it must be an England thing, no? |
Eh?
We are away to Albania who are second in the group and will be in the play offs.
Our goal difference of 22 is bettered in Europe only by Norway, and they have a robot striker up top. | |
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| Why is watching England on 18:44 - Nov 16 with 1287 views | vilanovablue |
| Why is watching England on 18:42 - Nov 16 by Zx1988 |
It feels like there's a mentality issue that's pervaded the setup for years and years.
Other top European sides regularly stick 7+ past the minnows, whilst we always seem to labour to a 2/3 goal win.
The smaller sides must up their game for England in the same way as they do against France/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany et al, so it must be an England thing, no? |
They've spent all match saying how tight and organised Albania are which seems to have been the case yet England are still winning. If we keep a clean sheet tonight we'll be the only European side to qualify with 8 wins and zero conceded which isn't all bad. |  | | |
| lol (n/t) on 18:45 - Nov 16 with 1278 views | Bloots |
| Why is watching England on 18:42 - Nov 16 by Zx1988 |
It feels like there's a mentality issue that's pervaded the setup for years and years.
Other top European sides regularly stick 7+ past the minnows, whilst we always seem to labour to a 2/3 goal win.
The smaller sides must up their game for England in the same way as they do against France/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany et al, so it must be an England thing, no? |
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| Why is watching England on 18:46 - Nov 16 with 1257 views | J2BLUE |
| Why is watching England on 18:42 - Nov 16 by Zx1988 |
It feels like there's a mentality issue that's pervaded the setup for years and years.
Other top European sides regularly stick 7+ past the minnows, whilst we always seem to labour to a 2/3 goal win.
The smaller sides must up their game for England in the same way as they do against France/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany et al, so it must be an England thing, no? |
You have incredibly odd takes on almost everything. | |
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| I thought there was some positive in the game on 18:49 - Nov 16 with 1228 views | unstableblue |
Albania were well up for it and stretched us
But what I like about this Touchel side is that they can go up the gears quickly, they press and hassle in packs, and there is at times some real urgency
Also feels like there's some competition across the pitch now.
Getting rather excited about the Summer in Trumpistan |  |
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| Why is watching England on 18:50 - Nov 16 with 1223 views | MattinLondon |
| Why is watching England on 18:42 - Nov 16 by Zx1988 |
It feels like there's a mentality issue that's pervaded the setup for years and years.
Other top European sides regularly stick 7+ past the minnows, whilst we always seem to labour to a 2/3 goal win.
The smaller sides must up their game for England in the same way as they do against France/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany et al, so it must be an England thing, no? |
Not really true - Germany only managed to score twice against Lichtenstein and Croatia only beat the Faroe Islands 3-1.
You still get the odd 7,8,9 nil but in the main the minnows are a lot harder to beat than what they used to be. | | | |
| Why is watching England on 18:52 - Nov 16 with 1196 views | RadioOrwell |
Because deep down we know we'll lose in the Semi Final ( or thereabouts ) |  | | |
| Why is watching England on 19:03 - Nov 16 with 1133 views | Zx1988 |
| Why is watching England on 18:44 - Nov 16 by vapour_trail |
Eh?
We are away to Albania who are second in the group and will be in the play offs.
Our goal difference of 22 is bettered in Europe only by Norway, and they have a robot striker up top. |
Okay, fair point.
I take back what I said, and there's probably a fair amount of confirmation bias in there.
I didn't realise Albania were, comparatively speaking, so good and, by the same token, I agree that Portugal sticking nine past Armenia definitely stands out more than the Germans labouring against Luxembourg. | |
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| Why is watching England on 19:08 - Nov 16 with 1111 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Why is watching England on 18:44 - Nov 16 by vilanovablue |
They've spent all match saying how tight and organised Albania are which seems to have been the case yet England are still winning. If we keep a clean sheet tonight we'll be the only European side to qualify with 8 wins and zero conceded which isn't all bad. |
It's pretty impressive. |  |
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| Why is watching England on 19:09 - Nov 16 with 1098 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Why is watching England on 19:03 - Nov 16 by Zx1988 |
Okay, fair point.
I take back what I said, and there's probably a fair amount of confirmation bias in there.
I didn't realise Albania were, comparatively speaking, so good and, by the same token, I agree that Portugal sticking nine past Armenia definitely stands out more than the Germans labouring against Luxembourg. |
Confirmation bias? |  |
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| Why is watching England on 19:16 - Nov 16 with 1079 views | Sarge |
Because this game is on instead of domestic football which everybody overwhelmingly prefers. If all the WC/EC qualifiers were played in the summer people would actually care, or if not care watch it anyway because they’re starved of football. | | | |
| Why is watching England on 19:17 - Nov 16 with 1064 views | Zx1988 |
| Why is watching England on 19:09 - Nov 16 by GlasgowBlue |
Confirmation bias? |
Focusing on the times England have laboured against supposed 'lesser' sides, whilst primarily seeing all the times that said sides have been battered by the other 'major' European sides. | |
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| Why is watching England on 20:26 - Nov 16 with 917 views | Vaughan8 |
I've not watched an England Friendly or qualifier for years and years. Must be 10+ years now.
We expect them to qualify and the good games are not very often.
I did watch some of the Scotland game the other day and the 2 ireland games. They're so much more exciting as they is some sort of outcome either way. They're aren't as good so are now involved in vital games at the end.
England are just quite good and the teams in their group just aren't even close(though I thought Serbia would put up more of a fight) | | | |
| Why is watching England on 08:20 - Nov 17 with 575 views | Churchman |
| Why is watching England on 20:26 - Nov 16 by Vaughan8 |
I've not watched an England Friendly or qualifier for years and years. Must be 10+ years now.
We expect them to qualify and the good games are not very often.
I did watch some of the Scotland game the other day and the 2 ireland games. They're so much more exciting as they is some sort of outcome either way. They're aren't as good so are now involved in vital games at the end.
England are just quite good and the teams in their group just aren't even close(though I thought Serbia would put up more of a fight) |
I rarely bother with them. I did watch 10 mins of it last night and it looked like a practice game. Total waste of time. A minus waste of time for Burnley with their reputed £20m striker carried off.
Each to their own with the farce that is qualifiers. I am certainly not interested in the other British Isles countries any more than they are in England. If our players come through unscathed, that’s all I care about.
I do enjoy the tournaments themselves though and watch as many games as I can. Somehow mid season, internationals feel an intrusion.
As for England being quite good, I can’t comment but we’ve plenty of good players and hopefully we’ll be competitive in Trumpania next summer. |  | | |
| Why is watching England on 08:39 - Nov 17 with 533 views | WestSussexBlue |
| Why is watching England on 18:42 - Nov 16 by Zx1988 |
It feels like there's a mentality issue that's pervaded the setup for years and years.
Other top European sides regularly stick 7+ past the minnows, whilst we always seem to labour to a 2/3 goal win.
The smaller sides must up their game for England in the same way as they do against France/Portugal/Netherlands/Germany et al, so it must be an England thing, no? |
Good point. Then the hype kicks in that we’re Seven unbeaten going into a tournament.
When we then meet the top sides, we’re left looking Second best. | | | |
| Why is watching England on 09:11 - Nov 17 with 491 views | weepingx2018 |
i watched the ireland game for all of 96 minutes and then missed the drama when the missus called!!! ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i watched an iplayer documentary about coastal villages rather than watch England....havent seen any of the qualifiers.....on purpose. | | | |
| Why is watching England on 09:14 - Nov 17 with 485 views | DanTheMan |
| Why is watching England on 19:09 - Nov 16 by GlasgowBlue |
Confirmation bias? |
People really underestimate how good the national team has been in the past decade. We've been pretty unfortunate not to win a trophy and have been very consistent otherwise.
We have really good strength in depth which is unusual for us as well. |  |
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| Why is watching England on 10:18 - Nov 17 with 404 views | LeoMuff |
| Why is watching England on 09:14 - Nov 17 by DanTheMan |
People really underestimate how good the national team has been in the past decade. We've been pretty unfortunate not to win a trophy and have been very consistent otherwise.
We have really good strength in depth which is unusual for us as well. |
I have no idea how any England fan can complain in the past few years, we have made the final of the last two major tournaments and just qualified winning every game and not conceding one goal.
Under McLaren’s we didn’t even qualify in 2008 and Hodgson out after group stage in 2016. |  |
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| Why is watching England on 10:49 - Nov 17 with 342 views | Benters |
Because the players don’t sing the national anthem? |  |
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| Why is watching England on 12:54 - Nov 17 with 216 views | Paramedic |
Well if you think it’s going to be meaningless and it makes you depressed don’t watch it. Simple. |  |
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