Ralston Row Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Surely the worst group of all eight and England by far the poorest of all four competing teams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Never going to happen, too big a TV audience, too much advertising revenue for UEFA/FIFA to allow. It won't happen, but not for the batshit mental conspiracy reasons you suggest. It won't happen because despite not being very good, England are still comfortably in the top 10-15 in Europe. I'm not sure how you'd expect UEFA or FIFA to fix something which is based on a predetermined set of criteria driven by results and results alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Cort's Hamstring Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 The Ireland that competed pre WW2 included the Republic of Ireland, of course that counts as part of their footballing history They did terribly, obviously, compared to Scotland but they still competed. Does the GB Olympic team count as part of Scotland's footballing history? Ireland already had their own international team, competing in Olympic games and World Cup qualifying before WW2. They've never competed at the British Championships (the clue really should be in the name). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Sky Sports News running a Twitter Poll asking the reason for England's exit, the 3 options are; #SSNplayers #SSNmanager #SSNbadluck #SSNpish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Among the drivel I've seen posted on the web in the last couple of hours. "How come nobody is talking about the fact that England were the only team to take a point off Costa Rica?" Clutch those straws with both hands pal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Cort's Hamstring Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Surely no one is actually trying to suggest that England performed better in a World Cup in which they were fucked out at the group stage garnering a solitary point against a Costa Rica side (who played for the point they required) and "unluckily" losing to a woeful Italy side (who lost their other games), and Uruguay (whose half-fit striker single-handedly won the game)? Utterly ridiculous. Granted not qualifying has at least saved them from a repeat of the sort of arse-fucking Germany gave them last time round. Always a positive. Gordon Strachan suggested it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Does the GB Olympic team count as part of Scotland's footballing history? Ireland already had their own international team, competing in Olympic games and World Cup qualifying before WW2. They've never competed at the British Championships (the clue really should be in the name). Er, no Scottish players played in the Olympic Games whilst Irish players were selected to represent Ireland in the British Home Championship. That is the second horrendous error you have made, will you ever learn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I'm not sure how you'd expect UEFA or FIFA to fix something which is based on a predetermined set of criteria driven by results and results alone. One idea would be to stop counting friendlies. Base the rankings on competitive matches only and England's artificially high placement would soon suffer, along with their favoured seeding. Does anyone 'really' think they were the 10th best side in the world going into this competition? Or that they were 3rd best only 2 years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Check out the fucking nugget who is first up World Cup 2014: England fans lament 'poor' perfor: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Less coaching? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Cort's Hamstring Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Er, no Scottish players played in the Olympic Games whilst Irish players were selected to represent Ireland in the British Home Championship. That is the second horrendous error you have made, will you ever learn Are Kim Little and Ifeoma Dieke not Scottish like? Scots (including Scottish internationals) have represented the British mens team at previous Olympics as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 It won't happen, but not for the batshit mental conspiracy reasons you suggest. It won't happen because despite not being very good, England are still comfortably in the top 10-15 in Europe. I'm not sure how you'd expect UEFA or FIFA to fix something which is based on a predetermined set of criteria driven by results and results alone. One idea would be to stop counting friendlies. Base the rankings on competitive matches only and England's artificially high placement would soon suffer, along with their favoured seeding. Does anyone 'really' think they were the 10th best side in the world going into this competition? Or that they were 3rd best only 2 years ago? A combination of the two, FIFA/UEFA will still count England friendlies against international sides significantly inferior in their favour, and there's always the "Wembley" factor for teams that still seem to be "overwhelmed" playing there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Thank you England. I thoroughly enjoyed your anguish and pain. Hubris is a terrible trait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 #SSNpish I suspect #SSNterprise since they are clearly on a different planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Are Kim Little and Ifeoma Dieke not Scottish like? Scots (including Scottish internationals) have represented the British mens team at previous Olympics as well. This is so fucking desperate, bringing in womens football But, yes, of course it's part of Scottish womens footballing history - that topic I was absolutely, clearly, not discussing. And if Scottish internationals played in Olympic mens football in the distant past then so is that - I'm hardly going to totally discount it because it goes against my point of view. That's your shtick remember? No Scottish players represented the GB Olympic team in the most recent opportunity, and I highly doubt they ever will. Do you really think the Republic of Ireland is a better footballing nation than Scotland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Cort's Hamstring Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 This is so fucking desperate, bringing in womens football ^^^ Sepp Blatter imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gc_smfc Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I think a major problem is that they always seem to attempt to copy other nations set ups tactically, when they aren't good enough for it. They don't have the range of players, especially in defence to play a possession based game, nor do they have the pace and tactical discipline for a purely counter attacking game. They pretty much should play 4-4-2, and play direct. Their players are technically or tactically developed enough when they come together as a team for anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Are they on the plane home yet, who we gonna laugh at now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 ^^^ Sepp Blatter imo You made a tit of yourself and your response was to try and pretend we were actually discussing womens football all along, despite the enormous evidence to the contrary. Oh Carl, will you ever catch a break? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Cort's Hamstring Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 You made a tit of yourself and your response was to try and pretend we were actually discussing womens football all along, despite the enormous evidence to the contrary. Oh Carl, will you ever catch a break? I'm not pretending anything. We're discussing footballing history and footballing nations. Let's just remind you of what you said: Er, no Scottish players played in the Olympic Games whilst Irish players were selected to represent Ireland in the British Home Championship. That is the second horrendous error you have made, will you ever learn Kim Little is a highly decorated professional footballer. She's got nearly 100 Scotland caps and she's only 23. She plays at the vey highest level of the game in the USA, and she's the only Scottish footballer for a long long time that could possibly described as 'World class'. To say it's "f*cking desperate" to point out that she is a Scottish player who played at the Olympics is not only moronic, it's demeaning and sexist. You should start ghost-writing Tam Cowan's columns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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