Fuckin' lol.


What do you think about the FourFourTwo article England Ripped Apart By Germany?
ENGLAND are on their way home after rampant Germany went on a goal blitzkrieg to rip their old rivals apart 4-1 in a dominant display which overshadowed a row over a missed goal.

Have your say.

4 - 1 to Germany against England with 11 men on the field for the whole game.
Is it Fabio Capello's fault, poor tactics?
Should they attack them more & play for the shirt? then blame the foreign coach when you weren't good enough.
Bullocks Fozzie!

At least Australia's result doesn't look that bad anymore.

Now when anyone mentions the 4-0 we can point to England...

Ripped apart is putting it nicely. But the english will of course say, "but if Lampards goal had been allowed", and it should have. Dont think it would have changed who won the game though.

An embarassing performance. Of course the English press will say if that goal had been allowed England would have won completely ignoring the fact that England were second best apart from 5-10 mins in the first half.

An abysmal World Cup from Rooney who was supposed to take it by storm.

Wouldn't be surprised if Capello gets the sack now.

Capello to Australia??? :p

I think Lampards goal being disallowed was bullshit but neverless Germany looked the Stronger side. Ozil run really destoryed them, Germany are looking primed to win this competition.

English media is primed to bitch about everyone

Isn't Capello on some long term contract worth $$$?

rooney should start looking at trailers and trailer parks...based on the future he just wrote :p

That was my thought also. He'll be available.

This game has put that result into perspective. Germany must have 'anti-Anglo country fever' this World Cup. We spared the US and New Zealand that fate.

It's appeared that Germany could have made the goal margin against Ghana bigger but they didnt try just that so Australia could get through to the knock out stage. Or the Ghanaian coach read the German game so well to minimize the deficit? Its now quite intresting to see how far Ghana can go at this WC.

Shocking performance - but that's what happens when the coach selects no left-sided midfielder and is forced to play his best attacking midfielder on the wrong side (thus negating his ability); picks a defensive midfielder who fails to defend ahead of his only creative midfielder. I feel sorry for Rooney - out of sorts he may have been, but in four games how many times was he played into any goalscoring position?

Capello couldn't have f*cked up more if he had tried.

As for Lampard's goal? Yes, it would have made a difference - but this is football, some you get, some you don't. No sense crying about it - we had another 50-55 minutes to get another.

During the 75th minute of the Germany Ghana game the Ghanian bench was counting the number of goals needed and so on, they were referring to the Australian game.

May be immoral that both teams took it easy in that game but not illegal as such. Germany was involved at an infamous 1982 game where they took a go-slow and FIFA changed the rules to make all last group games played simultaneuosly.

Looks like some circumstances can buck the system though. Modern technology wouldn't help, as we can all see the results instataneously via mobile, digital TV etc etc

they made england look 2nd rate, and Fozz look stupid. Although that latter part is not all that hard.

I was watching it with an English expat, complaining about the goal and the ball all game. Was rather amusing. Brilliant.

If they didn't make the Round of 16 they were going to ask him to resign. I suspect they will do that now. Of they had lost 1-0 or 2-1 to Germany they wouldn't but the fact that they were completely embarrassed is unacceptable to the British.

How much would Paul Dempsey be loving this as an Irishman. Sees France capitulate and now England.

Wouldn't have mattered much to the game if it did go to 2-2 - Germany were all over it and probably would have gone even harder and ripped a few more goals in.

Oezil, Lahm, Mueller, Khedira and Podolski were all simply superb. I don't really care about England's lack of performance because I was so entranced by the fluidity and grace which Germany played with.

That said - there were a lot of players that put in diabolical performances for England, but enough about Wayne Rooney - John Terry looks like a mental patient out there. Something's not right in the head, there. He's an absolute liability and he wasn't all there tonight. Upson had to cover for a number of positional and marking errors made by Terry - with varying degrees of success.

just embarrassed

Freakin hilarious stuff. I'm based in Scotland and the levels of schadenfreuden are only matched by the levels of relief that the english have once again won squat despite them being the best team in the world ever an' that innit.

The Germans were red hot though. Just hope they haven't peaked too soon - I would love to see an attack minded side such as them take out the tournament rather than some of the piss boring defensive outfits that are left.

Shame that goal wasn't allowed. I don't think you can really say that it didn't change the result. At 2-2 it is a completely different game. I will tell you why.

Capello should be sacked but not for his selections. England played good and had plenty of very good chances. Lampard had a close shot well smothered, a disallowed goal and thumping free kick of the cross bar. Defoe headed onto the bar which was called offside but wasn't... etc etc.

The reason why Capello should be sacked is because of the space in midfield and between David James and the defense. The Australia game (and now England game)combined with the Ghana game should have taught Capello one thing. Limit the space!!!! in midfield and behind the defenders especially. When you give this German team room... they will slaughter you.

Back to the disallowed goal... if that goal is awarded and it is 2-2... England don't need to press for an equaliser.

2-1 creates a need for an England goal which = England pressing further up the park which = copious amounts of space for the German machine, which = 4 goals to Germany.

Australia game should have been the blue print on what not to do against Germany. On that note - Sack Capello.

P.S. I don't feel sorry for England but there were two horrific referee mistakes in this game that lead to a denied goal and goal being wrongfully awarded.

We all know the obvious one where the ball crossed the line... but the first goal by Klose... when the ball was kicked by the German keeper, Klose and another German attacker were about 2 metres offside.

For the most part... the offside calls in S.Af. 2010 have been close to 95-98% correct and it has been great but this one was pretty bad.

#-o Was hoping someone would bring this up. Ok before you go on about how bad it was that they weren't called offside I suggest you go read the laws of the game. Klose collected the ball directly from a goal kick, which as stated in the laws of the game you can NOT be offside from.

Klose could have been standing in the 6 yard box and if he;d scored it would have been allowed.

Yip, can't be offside from a goalkick according to the Laws of the Game. Even the english commentators on the BBC coverage grudgingly conceded that point when looking in vain for excuses for their boys' crapness.

Just figured it out... its the Nike Curse...
Drogba - broken Arm & I,C GONE !!!
Canavaro - Italy, GONE !!!
Rooney - England, GONE !!!
Ribery - France, GONE !!!
Ronaldinho - didn't even get to GO !!!
Ronaldo ???

Don't lump the Scots, Northern Irish and Welsh in with that comment fella. I guarantee they aren't embarrassed by the pathetic-ness of that English performance. Amused maybe, but certanly not embarrassed.

IMO that denied goal was actually critical, but then as an Aussie it's kind of amusing seeing the poms get slaughtered still.

When that goal was denied England actually continued to play quite alright for a little while, and then appeared to panic and throw the midfielders forward and lob the ball from the back all the way over. The English were not at their best and therefore were just turning it back over, giving the Germans paddocks of space to run - and they were much faster than the English, so the result was obvious.

"Just figured it out... its the Nike Curse..."

I totally agree Wurm, I have been saying that since the start of the WC. First job of the new manager for 2014 is to ban participation in Nike ads. It is the biggest jinx.

Indeed, was waiting for some one to bring this up - Is it no co-incidence that since day dot, or even before perhaps, the tournament all these players have been underperforming, to say the least?

It's rather funny really, considering the irony of the subject matter featured in that ad campaign we are being CONSTANTLY bombarded with (Along with the damn Castrol one, making us doubly sick of Cristiano Ronaldo).

As we've been brainwashed with - The basic idea of the ad campaign is that there are key moments in these fictitious big matches which can determine whether the player will become a national hero or zero. Well, instead of the obvious happy conclusion every time, the 'hero result' of many babies being named 'Wayne,' 'hugging the Queen,' 'songs feting Cannavaro,' 'Giant Statues of Ronaldo' and 'Cristiano's Ronaldo guest spot on The Simpsons,' it's more the 'Zero Result,' in reality. Mind you it's not hard to see Ronaldo being on The Simpsons anyway, especially given the state The Simpsons has been in, this decade - as reflected by Homer even appearing in this appalling ad campaign - scraping the barrel. Once Homer and co had standards, ah well. They've gone a long way since their classic episode about 'The Soccer: Which nation is the greatest on earth, Mexico or Portugal!' We know that Ronaldo couldn't have featured for that Portugal team - As even Homer has heard of him, apparently.

I think it 'seems' part of the failure of some of these guys, like Rooney, Ribery and even Ronaldo, is quite simply due to their failing to meet the great expectations placed on them. And there's soo much hype, pressure that comes with this expectation - Rooney, as the ad suggests, was meant to be England's Saviour, the one to lead them to Glory again atlast, under their 'Fab' new coach. But he fizzled right from the start.

The only one true to form in the ads, is Ribery ofcourse - He fails in the ad, and he failed in the real life World Cup too - just it wasn't Rooney tackling him, it was every defender and midfielder that was making him in the Group stage, that is on the rare occasions he could get the ball or hold onto it longer than a second.

One has to wonder - If their World Cup form would have been better off through NOT featuring in these ads? But who can say, ah well.

And now, well now we can see the Plan B of their campaign - A shortened version featuring just the Ronaldo part AND a new one featuring Robinho and a Brazilian Mardi Gras float of him, with a dancing girl, at the end. What?! Nike are determined to put the curse on him aswell?

Watch this space - Robinho to get an untimely red card to miss the final, or, forbid, break his leg or some unfortunate injury. Bloody nike, just do it, screw it.


BTW You know what else is ironic - The one superstar, the one TRUE superstar who supersedes them all, who just happens to NOT be in that ad campaign - HAS lit up this tournament, and his name is Lionel Messi. He's clearly shown that he has no rival - He IS the world's best player - Ronaldo? Rooney? Still over hyped and second rate pretenders, who can't shine on the world stage, when it matters most.

The bigger the occasion, the more Messi seems to shine, it seems. And he don't need no mega bucks ad campaign to suggest so, he just proves it on the pitch, time and time again.

Edited by GloryPerth: 28/6/2010 08:20:06 AM

For the win! =d>