Its just banter Bill, you really need to take what I say with a pinch of salt.........
But have the US EVER beaten England at "soccer"?
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Confederations Cup
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Its just banter Bill, you really need to take what I say with a pinch of salt.........
But have the US EVER beaten England at "soccer"?
Its just banter Bill, you really need to take what I say with a pinch of salt.........
But have the US EVER beaten England at "soccer"?
I think you are showing your age Goat.
I bet if I said the words "Graham Taylor", you wouldn't feel a cold shiver run through you, would you?
Yes. And also if you said the words "Steve McClaren".
Thats why we sacked turnip head Taylor. 
Rook
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It was like Clattenberg was refing this match. Donovan all but got buried alive in the 80th minute. Clark's red was a joke.
On the other hand, the 1st half I thought we thought we played great, the best I've seen us play in a long long time. The 2nd well we should have gotten a 2nd pen and there isn't too much any club in the world going to do against the world champs w/ 10 men and we kept it tight and had a couple good scoring chances for a while until finally succumbing to fatigue.
Bradley was bossing the middle and linking up well with Donovan in the attack. He picked off Italy clean at least 4-5 times and won almost every 50-50 ball. Its looking like he's getting more freedom moving forward. Donovan always manages to not show up in big games (not counting Mexico) but he played well today. I've been one of his biggest critics but when he's playing well he could really control the middle.
Feinhaber made some dumb mistakes but he also made some killer long passes. If Clark/Bradley play as well as they did in the middle, we could live with the mistakes.
I really liked the lineup we had today. Spector is growing on me and DeMerit is a better defender than Bocanerga.
Bornstein was a little out of his league against Italy but I like his game against most other squads. Altidore needs improvement as a target man he's improving in that dept and is the best we got if McBride doesn't come back. Plus he's only 19 (looks about 35 though now) and was kind of used as a pawn in Spain at Xerez (they got him to keep a rival in Serie B from getting him) so hopefully he'll get more PT next season.
Clark's days at Houston are numbered. Sorry Tx. I'll be suprised if he's still in the US by the WC.
The loss hurts b/c it really puts us in a hole but if we play as well as we did in the 1st half I think we could advance. Hopefully Brasil will lose to Italy.
Rossi, well we always have trouble with smaller pacy players and we were tired. Wish we was here though, he's the kind of player we need.
Tennessee Blue Mike
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Its just banter Bill, you really need to take what I say with a pinch of salt.........
But have the US EVER beaten England at "soccer"?
Yes they have actually.
But I agree we aren't up to the world stage just yet with exciting players on the cusp of first team action. But I will say The US did a lot better than I imagined. Funny how a US born Italian did the business against us.
Blue Wiz
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For being such a "young" football nation they are very good. I know they have played football for a longer while, but it wasn't until the WC 1994 they really started to promote it. So in 15 years they have reached their current situation. Give them 15-20 more years and they might very well be one of the very best teams.
Tennessee Blue Mike
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Many forget they reached the quarterfinals just like England in the 2002 World Cup in Korea. On the way beating Portugal 2-1 the tournament favorites and only losing to Germany 1-0 scored by a certain Chelski player named Michael Ballack.
I watched the 2nd half last night. No chance for Howard on the first - a rocket. Blinded by Onyewu on the 2nd and when you let Pirlo run free into the box, goals are to be expected.
I would prefer to see someone else in the captain's armband - possibly Dempsey. What he may lack in skill, he makes up for in scrap. The US aren't going to outskill anyone so maybe a little more toughness is necessary...
Still hopefully how ever the Confederations Cup turns out, it will help the US for WC 2010 in experience. For the MLS players who are consistently playing against "B" and "C" level talent, it can only help to learn from the "A" talent when they're pushing you around the pitch.
Desaparecido
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I was impressed by USA, I liked Bradley some good aggressive runs, and Donovan played quite well. Pity about the two poor finishes in the first half, it could have really been great if they had gone in. Altidore doesn't look like he has the first touch to really play well up front.
NeoNaoNeo
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Its just banter Bill, you really need to take what I say with a pinch of salt.........
But have the US EVER beaten England at "soccer"?
First time we ever played them.
In our first ever world cup.
1950.
Beat us 1-0.
Our newspapers thought it was a misprint and reported that we won 10-1
toffeestillidie
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imo dempsey isn't ready to captain our side, in all fairness i think howard should, though he hasn't been amazing for the national side i think he's probably one of the US's most valuable players. I would say bradley should captain, but it'd look a bit too much like favoritism if daddy made his son captain.
TX Bill
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Its just banter Bill, you really need to take what I say with a pinch of salt.........
But have the US EVER beaten England at "soccer"?
Ah sorry mate. I was still fuming at the result. I should have calmed down a bit before posting.
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