LOL. If you actually watch it as it happened that picture doesn’t tell the full story. The bloke with the glasses is an absolute star.
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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3
- Thread starter cronullasharks
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4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
This thread hasn't been getting enough attention this past week
trueblue84
Player Valuation: £50m
I can't get past the fella with mumps. That neck is something else.
Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £60m
Pabbers
Player Valuation: £60m
Any time Gerrard is mentioned as a "great" for England or a "leader", I remember 2 things.
1. His stupid header that went past / over Jags & Cahill for Suarez to score at the WC....then he sent Jags out to face the press in the interview....as Captain Coward stayed in the changing room.
2. The last game before that World Cup, sure their was torrential rain and the game got stopped as storms died down....Gerrard could not get off the pitch quick enough....running past his team mates to get out of the storm....I though he was supposed hold his head up high and not be afraid of it!?!?!
1. His stupid header that went past / over Jags & Cahill for Suarez to score at the WC....then he sent Jags out to face the press in the interview....as Captain Coward stayed in the changing room.
2. The last game before that World Cup, sure their was torrential rain and the game got stopped as storms died down....Gerrard could not get off the pitch quick enough....running past his team mates to get out of the storm....I though he was supposed hold his head up high and not be afraid of it!?!?!
Obes
Player Valuation: £25m
Don’t forget his back pass straight to Henry at Euro 2004 which led to the penalty to lose the game 2-1.
Blue Heart
Player Valuation: £500k
One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its black gates are guarded by more than just orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
He was an utter nonentity of an international player. Just got outclassed tournament after tournament at the international level. Spent his whole England career chasing shadows of better players. Massively massively overrated.
canuckblue
Player Valuation: £50m
He was just in the wrong sport, is all. Now if he'd tried out for the UK Olympic diving team...
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
In fairness to Gerrard, that was most of that "golden generation" too.
I quite like the fact a less appreciated and discernibly talented group of players have completely outdone what they did. The manager and team seem much nicer as well.
tonyhorne
Immoderate
He never got the preferential treatment from referees in international games that he enjoyed at home ...
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I agree but no one can say that Rooney Beckham Owen didn’t perform for England. They stood out on the international stage as some of the best in the world in their position. Gerrard just got schooled by any half decent international midfielder who went up against him. Successive England managers playing 442 just exposed the fact he always needed an Alonso type behind him actually making the play and pulling the strings whilst he hit Hollywood balls and loitered on the edge of the box for knock downs. As soon as he had to play some midfield for England we could barely put a pass together.
This team under Southgate has done ok because Southgate has ignored the brain dead English media, picked the best players regardless of club, and hasn’t created a two tier squad of sky 6 untouchables and then also rans. Pickford Maguire Rice Phillips have all played big roles in tournaments when not at a top 6 team, that just would never have happened under Sven, McLaren, Capello or Hodgson
As a non Englander, I am forever grateful that no England manager had to balls to drop Lampard or Gerrard and put Barry or Hargreaves in there beside one of them.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
England managers could have picked any of Scholes Carrick Hargreaves Barry to play in a midfield three with Lampard (the better player in possession). Not a single one of them was brave enough to go against the kopite media though. We genuinely could have won something but we turned up tournaments with a midfield of two attacking mids with no positional discipline.
I remember in 2010 Capello had finally shown some balls and exiled Gerrard to the left wing so that Barry could play with Lampard in the middle. All throughout qualification we looked pretty good but as soon as the tournament started the kopite media machine cranked up ‘Gerrard has to play in the middle’ and sure enough we started against USA in a 442 with Lampard and Gerrard and had an awful World Cup.
Southgate has had some better success by just completely ignoring idiotic media suggestions ‘Trent should play in midfield’ ‘why isn’t Henderson starting’ ‘Rooney retired too early’ ‘he’s got the wrong formation’ all these expert pundits who all know better (even including failed ex England managers) they should all shut up and let him get on with it.