England v Croatia

I think this showed that England are virtually a one man team. They didn’t offer much if anything in the first half then Beckham comes on and it was like watching a different for large spells.

Probably would have been different if Rooney, Terry & Owen were playing but with the way Croatia played they deserved to win that one. I thought Croatia might have just accepted 2-2 as they didn’t need a win but they were determined to finish on a high.

Pity the goalie didnt make a co ck up when we played them a few sundays back lol but he needs to fill the villa co ck ups books and he did a blinder lol

@Bad Manners wrote:

Even more glaring than Beckham not starting was deciding to throw an inexperienced Goalie into the fray in the last game of Qualifying. They’d have been far better starting with James. Also they started with a lone striker in a home game who was given little or no support.

Worst England performance I’ve ever seen in my life. I thought Croatia were a nippy little side though, and they could have scored a few more. They looked dangerous every counter attack they had.

I certainly didn’t expect to see Carson in there. Looks like Steve’s on the way out now, England have had a few dodgy results and performances but I think this is one too many. Can’t see many fans backing him either since he wasn’t the man they wanted in the first place.

pressure got to the keeper in the 1st half hes 22! ok hes playing premier league football but 22 years old and told to go out and play infront of nearly 80,000 people in one of the most important games for england!

2nd half he had a blinder to be honest!

beckham should of came on earlier and his face said that from when we where 2-0 down he was itching to get on!

we got a gift of a penalty and a cracking 2nd goal and then like matty said we sat back

typical england! we fail to put the nail in the coffin everytime its like we are too polite to batter a team!

we have got 2 years now to build a team for the world cup……

so who for the manager job now?

mclaren will be paid off

bookies say mourinho

id like to see venables have another pop or maybe stuart pearce

@matty wrote:

i don’t think we need to rush to appoint a new manager, wait till this season is over, let the club managers do thier thing and see who does what… the england team can pick itself at the end of the day, we don’t need friendly after friendly, the friendly against austria you could argue cost england its place in euro 2008.. owen getting injured ect

though my mate said what they should do, is have a home nations cup next summer. england, scotland, wales, ireland and republic.. we need somthing to take our mind of the euro’s, and maybe it will show uefa that the uk can hold the world cup.. maybe our best chance of qualifying

I was saying exactly the same today! It would give us something to do over the summer