if only they thought to publish decisions like this when they were taken or list in advance* which referees were to take charge of which games and which ones were being "rotated" to a lower division... * a long time in advance
The same day the story was in the echo a very similar story appeared in the Brum local press, how do you think that got there, from us or Villa? O'Neil overlooked that particular point when he started bleating about us leaking to the Echo.
Very similar to how I feel but it wasn't Sven as such that turned me off England but the inherent xenophobia that his appointment seemed to bring out. The way the press portray and percieve England was a part of it too. Actually now I think about it there are lots of reasons why I dislike the national side.
Lets hope so eh? If he played for any other club than Chelsea he wouldn't be near the England set up, it is farcical that he makes the squad eveytime. He is up there with Phil Neville as having lots of England caps for no obvious reason.
I was exactly the same. I have had a lot of conversations with non liverpool fans recently who have all said that they consider fat frank outrageously overrated. It has taken a while for everyone else to cotton on but finally the rest of the footballing world has realised. Prior to that I had to put up with lots of people telling me he was better than Gerrard!!