*Official* Knockout Stages

[Uppercut]

Originally Posted by wpdavid

That would be my take on it. It was always likely that Germany would regroup over half time and that England wouldn't be able to maintain any sort of intensity. I stuck around long enough into the second half to see Gerrard miscue a decent chance wide of the near post, told my missus it would be 3-1 or 4-1 and took my son over to the park. Yes, of course the Lamard decision was a ****ing joke which simply shouldn't happen at this level, but we'd been utterly outclassed for most of the first half and to give a away the two goals that we did before half time was village green stuff. Quite how anyone could comments on the German's supposed defensive frailties had always been beyond me given the impotence of our attack and the likelihood that theirs would rip our painfully slow defence to shreds, and so it proved. It was all very well whining about Beckenbauer's comments, but they always sounded true to me, and so that proved too.

I'd agree with this, except I'd also give Germany a little more credit for the quality of their attacking play. Lack of pace in a defence isn't actually that easy to exploit, and Germany with their three up front were great at pouring forward as soon as they won the ball in the middle of the park. Their second goal was a really well-worked passing move and I found it a little disappointing that the commentators didn't give them any more credit; if England had scored such a goal they'd have creamed. The third and fourth were really good counter attacks too.

First goal though, lol.

[grecian]

Originally Posted by Uppercut

I'd agree with this, except I'd also give Germany a little more credit for the quality of their attacking play. Lack of pace in a defence isn't actually that easy to exploit, and Germany with their three up front were great at pouring forward as soon as they won the ball in the middle of the park. Their second goal was a really well-worked passing move and I found it a little disappointing that the commentators didn't give them any more credit; if England had scored such a goal they'd have creamed. The third and fourth were really good counter attacks too.

First goal though, lol.

bollox, holle in the middle torquay unite could of exploited

[GIMH]

And that's ****ing saying something

****e defending, end of

[Matteh]

Was such a Sunday pub team goal. Both laughing and dying inside.

[Sir Alex]

Edited

[Athlai]

Show some tact FFS email a mod if you have a problem don't cry on here about it.

[Matteh]

Probably because you're a ****.

[silentstriker]

All right guys, cut it out.

[GIMH]

Look my posts may be undesirable tonight but I see the worst poster in the history of this forum uttering complete ****e after we go out the WC, well, yeah

edit, posted before I saw SS's post tbh

[Sir Alex]

Originally Posted by Athlai

Show some tact FFS email a mod if you have a problem don't cry on here about it.

But GIMH can?

[FaaipDeOiad]

Eh, I'm not upset about England losing at all, and it's still evident that Sir Alex is the worst poster on the forum and should have been banned for relentlessly trolling a long time ago.

Enjoying the fallout though, entertaining stuff.

[GingerFurball]

Originally Posted by Matteh

Well no, you'd have to be an idiot to think that.

I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that.

However, it's not an opinion that needs expressing.

[silentstriker]

OK guys, any further posts on this topic will be deleted.

[GingerFurball]

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

LOlling at the amount of complete pricks in this thread, Pratters, Sir Alex, you are the worst culprits, **** off you pair of *****

We lost, deservedly so, end of

But **** me this thread has gone abysmal

You're not helping the situation.

Some of your posting over the last couple of days has been nothing short of dire.

[Jono]

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

Look my posts may be undesirable tonight but I see the worst poster in the history of this forum uttering complete ****e after we go out the WC, well, yeah

edit, posted before I saw SS's post tbh

I was going to say that you must have SS on ignore until I saw your edit. because surely you realise he is comfortably the worst poster in the history of CW.