Live footy on the tellybox today (internationals + League 1)

[Benitez]

Crewe v Huddersfield are on now (SS2) - Danny O'Donnell is playing for Crewe.

 

 

Followed by:

 

Scotland v Faroe Islands, at 3pm on Sky Sports 2 (I know, I can hardly wait either)

 

England v Andorra, at 5pm (BBC1 I pressume)

 

then Wales v Czech Republic on at 7pm (Sky Sports 2)

Edited September 2, 2006 by Benitez

[Gunga Din]

i think the norn iron game is on at 3 on BBC NI, sky channel 992. should be a better game than Scotland against the Faroes

[Fenderbaum]

Watching Football Focus.

 

What is Crooks like?!

[Benitez]

ah yes so it is, on at 3pm.

 

Northern Ireland v Iceland

 

It's a tough choice

[Gunga Din]

ah yes so it is, on at 3pm.

 

Northern Ireland v Iceland

 

It's a tough choice

 

 

they should beat Iceland. they beat Tesco last week, and they are much better than Iceland

[Benitez]

clashes with the Wales game then though.. hmmm.. decisions, decisions..

 

 

aye, know what yer mean I'm Welsh, and I still can't pick, hehe.

 

I'll probably watch the start of the Wales game, see how our Craig gets on. And the Czech's can be quite good to watch at times an' all.

 

Damn choices! I'll have to chuck the remote out again.

[_00_deathscar]

BBC 3

 

Nice to see Defoe FINALLY score a goal.

 

According to the commentators he's a "natural goalscorer"...yea 2 in 23 games really backs that statement up.

 

Whereas for all the flak Crouchie gets, 10 in 13 now is it?

[Benitez]

I like that idea but I was thinking: when would they play these pre qualifier games?

 

 

 

 

play 'em now, or even play 'em right the start of the season - when they had them first lot of pre season friendlies.

 

It'd mean the 'actual' qualifiers wouldn't have to start till later, cos there would be less teams, and less games.

[John am Rhein]

play 'em now, or even play 'em right the start of the season - when they had them first lot of pre season friendlies.

 

It'd mean the 'actual' qualifiers wouldn't have to start till later, cos there would be less teams, and less games.

 

Yeah, and that would be another bonus - no international sh*te in the autumn.

 

What I think they may do, however, is have some kind of 'lower division' of countries from which the top 1 or 2 teams get to play in the top level in the next tournament and the 1 or 2 worst teams correspondingly get relegated. I think the tennis Davis cup works a bit like that (?)

 

I'm not as keen on that idea though because it would mean teams playing in a 'competition' they have no route to actually winning - although to all intents and purposes they have no chance of winning it anyway.

[Guest TanMan]

Lampard has offered nothing, as usual.

 

Yep, he's been attrocious. Especially considering how much cover he gets with Hargreaves along side. The onlt other alternative would be to drop him, put Gerrard back in the middle and play Lennon on the right but that's not going to happen. It would be a weaker midfield IMO as well.

[_00_deathscar]

Hargreaves with a cracking strike from 30 yards, but hits the post.

 

Why is Downing being substituted? And Phil Neville?

 

Take off the GOOD players FFS!

[Guest TanMan]

You f***ing beauty

[_00_deathscar]

Couch scores header.

[Jim D]

All McClaren needs to do now is drop Lampard and move Gerrard in the centre. Lennon on the right.

[Guest TanMan]

All McClaren needs to do now is drop Lampard and move Gerrard in the centre. Lennon on the right.

 

[owenthomas]

does anyone have Crouch's stats for England compared to the other strikers such as Owen, Rooney, Defoe etc?..

[Guest TanMan]

does anyone have Crouch's stats for England compared to the other strikers such as Owen, Rooney, Defoe etc?..

 

In the last 10 games his record beats the lot, hands down. That's all that count in my book

[owenthomas]

yeah, i knew that would be the case but i was just curious..

[_00_deathscar]

In the last 10 games his record beats the lot, hands down. That's all that count in my book

 

Inclusive of this game, I believe it's 10 in his last 10.

[Barnesy_10]

Lampard is a f***ing c***....

he's a bottler who doesn't tackle, doesn't track back and can't cross a ball for s***...

w*****...

the reason Gerrards where he is is because he is so much more versatile than Lampard who is actually s*** in the position he is best at.

[_00_deathscar]

Even his passing's shyte.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

69 mins A bit of controversy: England played on while one of the Andorra players, Sanchez, was down injured, and Sivera's response was to kick Kieran Richardson up in the air. He gets booked; Richardson, distressingly, is unhurt.

[_00_deathscar]

Gerrard got megged.

 

SELL GERRARD!

[McBain]

It was pleasing to see that despite the oppo being Andorra, Phil Neville was still dogshyte

[Benitez]

69 mins A bit of controversy: England played on while one of the Andorra players, Sanchez, was down injured, and Sivera's response was to kick Kieran Richardson up in the air. He gets booked; Richardson, distressingly, is unhurt.