Lehmann writes off England

[Barney Rubble]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...nd/5056116.stm

[Simon]

ahh the mind games...

also seems to me Michael Ballack isnt keen on making friends with anyone, hes basically rubbished his German side saying they are "A shadow of their former selves" and also having a go at England (obviously where hes playing next season) saying they cant win it basically.

[Pedro Delgado]

Just glancing at the side that lost to Brazil last time..


David Seaman
Danny Mills
Rio Ferdinand
Sol Campbell
Ashley Cole
David Beckham
Nicky Butt
Paul Scholes
Trevor Sinclair
Emile Heskey
Michael Owen

Subs
Teddy Sheringham
Darius Vassell
Kieron Dyer

..I think this years team is far far better, plus there's no heat factor to contend; with a little luck we could go quite a distance. Not sure about the mental block stuff, peno's are a lottery and it's not just England that have a poor record in them.

/quietly optimistic

[Great Birtannia]

If you can't beat Sri Lanka at home you have no hope of retaining the Ashes in oz. Mad Darren is right.

[dontcloseyoureyes]

If you can't beat Sri Lanka at home you have no hope of retaining the Ashes in oz. Mad Darren is right.

[Barney Rubble]

Danny Mills

[Pedro Delgado]

Innit

[The Baconator]

Is it dumb to think this is Darren Lehmann talking about the Ashes when you open the thread?

[Samuel_Vimes]

Is it dumb to think this is Darren Lehmann talking about the Ashes when you open the thread?

It is in the World Cup forum...

[Barney Rubble]

Is it dumb to think this is Darren Lehmann talking about the Ashes when you open the thread?

Not if you don't look at what forum it's in, no.

[roseboy64]

Is it dumb to think this is Darren Lehmann talking about the Ashes when you open the thread?

I thought it was him too but was wondering why he would be talking about football?

[Matteh]

I knew straight away it was Jens....but then i'd just read it on Ceefax

[Barney Rubble]

All of this begs the question - one's Australian and one's German. How'd they end up with the same name? Maybe Darren has German heritage. I'm sure he'd be a shoo-in for their national team long after his retirement from first-class cricket.

[Matteh]

All of this begs the question - one's Australian and one's German. How'd they end up with the same name? Maybe Darren has German heritage. I'm sure he'd be a shoo-in for their national team long after his retirement from first-class cricket.

There's a suprisingly large German contingent in Australia i'm led to believe. I'm a German student, i'm fed information about the use of German around the world.

[Cloete]

There's a suprisingly large German contingent in Australia i'm led to believe. I'm a German student, i'm fed information about the use of German around the world.

There's a large proprortion of people from everywhere here, though. Germans aren't too highly at all though in comparison to places like Italy, Greece, the FYR's and the UK.