Anyone pointing the finger at us yet?

exiled in notts · Post by **exiled in notts** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:09 pm

I canâ€™t be arsed to read the fevered ramblings of the press any more, but if the form bookâ€™s anything to go by, theyâ€™ll now be casting around for a suitable scapegoat for last nightâ€™s England defeat.

Capello? Not been in the job long enough.

The players? No. How could our precious David, Wayne, Rio and Stevie possibly be at fault?

How about Arsenal? I think the argument goes something like, â€œYeah theyâ€™ve got loads of foreign players. Lets blame them.â€

Magic Hat · Post by **Magic Hat** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:26 pm

Not seen us get blamed yet for this defeat, Capello gets blame for system, players from James/Terry/Beckham and any of the old guard as it were getting blamed. Not Arsenal which may be due to us having same amount of players in squad as Liverpool

Fabrestuta · Post by **Fabrestuta** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:29 pm

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Capello is a proven world class manager and has won every where he's gone. He doesn't play fancy attacking football so English fans had better get used to that fact, but if you win something wouldn't that make up for it?

Magic Hat · Post by **Magic Hat** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:33 pm

but we didn't thrash a rubbish France side 5-0

I do question one thing Capello did and that is withdraw both Joe Cole and Gerrard while leaving both Barry and Hargrevees at half time when 1-0 down. Overall, these games are for him to implement his passing over long ball and system on the players, France was always going to be difficult without that

SCREAM AIM FIRE · Post by **SCREAM AIM FIRE** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:45 pm

should have used theo...would have won if he came on

Red Gunner · Post by **Red Gunner** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:17 pm

Well said, exiled in notts. If all dirty foreigners left the Premiership and it was flooded by passionate Englishmen. It'd be shit and no-one would watch it

dvbrisgooner1 · Post by **dvbrisgooner1** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:22 pm

It's all Arsenal's fault. Everyone knows that. They're just a foreign Club playing in London. It's obvious to anyone who knows anything about football that this bunch of foreign journeymen are just holding back all the great English talent. Let's use David Bentley as an example - if he hadn't left Arsenal he wouldn't have played at the San Siro and set up a goal against AC Milan in a European Cup game. To be honest, Arsenal Football Club are just an absolute disgrace for the way they hold back all these great young English gentlemen.