Calamity 'James' taKes over !
 

David James has won the battle of the England keepers in Cape Town.

James has been recalled at the expense of ousted Robert Green.

Even as late as yesterday, it seemed Green would be given the chance to atone for his crass blunder against the United States last weekend, which cost England victory in their opening Group C game.

However, after another couple of mistakes in training last night, Capello has turned to James, who started the first 13 matches of the Italian's reign.

The veteran's last competitive start came against the Ukraine at Wembley in April 2009, although he did play the majority of the return encounter in Dnepr after Green had been sent off.

Emile Heskey has held off a late challenge from Jermain Defoe to partner Wayne Rooney in attack.

Jamie Carragher starts his first international for three years as replacement for the injured Ledley King, while Gareth Barry comes into the starting line-up at the expense of James Milner.

Barry's involvement allowed Capello to shunt captain Steven Gerrard into a more offensive role as England looked to assume pole position.

Victory by two or more goals would ensure England needed only a draw from their last game against Slovenia to advance, as would a high-scoring single goal triumph


glk England 8-P

Are you sure ??
 

looking like a, 0 -0 .. 1- 0 ..0 -1 .. to me .. best bet someone getting sent off :'D

Half Time 0-0
 

Well ya cant blame the keeper for that first half :-C England .. no zest . no ideas and if this stays 0-0 at the final whistle ... no chance of winning this group yet alone the cup :cool:

ffs, get Joe Cole and Crouch on the field QUICK :brains:

Any free kick in our half - They are taking a 30yd run up and hitting it... if they get one on target, think they will score.

While we are trying to neatly roll the ball into their net.....

at last
 

A sub coming on Wright-Phillips:loveme:

Hope so - Needs something

Heskeys defending... does that not sum it up?

Think they will get slaughtered in the papers tomorrow - even if they now score 3

jeez-us
 

Gerrard and Lampard cant even take a corner between them and Gerrard is playing like a Sunday league reserve player :gh:

They are over complicating it - Get the ball and smack it

oh at last
 

Crouch's coming on o:D

What a
 

JOKE 0-0 ...... No stewards enquiry here , the whole team were useless , oh except the goalie James o:D

Whats our chances now against a South American side :'D .. :gn:

Disgraceful, If there arent atleast 6 changes for next game,Capello should be ousted,and all players in this squad shouldnt play for england again.
Drop Rooney,Lampard,Terry,Heskey,Johnson,Lennon,Im ashamed to be english and will be getting the pishh taking out of me all week by the tartan army. I predicted 8-0,we didnt have 3 shots on target.

Agree with Taylormade :eek!: Drop em all, get Stuart Pearce and Bekham on lol.
Seriously, how long are England managers going to play Gerrard and Lampard together? We've had years to see it doesn't work :C Drop Lampard and Gerrard will turn into a captain.
Probably the worst England performance i've ever seen :h?: Whats wrong with Rooney? Looks unfit or injured to me. Barnes looks fitter o:D
3-3-4 next game Fabio, I hope your reading this 8-P

Highlight of the game was watching a bird sat on the net :girl:

Last year Capello had balls and picked our best team, he has either lost the plot or is following instructions. What are Heskey, SWP and Lennon doing in the squad. The 2 worst players on the pitch tonight were Rooney and Lampard in that order.

lol
 

yes he new he was safe there with England attacking that goal 8-P

New theory and probably original one is because no wags are out there, the boys have been out whoring around and contracted venereal diseases,did anyone notice how our lads were often covering their tackle with their hands and rubbing their legs,looked lethargic and couldnt be arsed,clasic symptoms of VD.

Im taking your word for that diagnosis.......:eek!::eek!:

Never in doubt o:D Well done England and USA :cool:

although a much improved overall performance, its obvious to me Terry,Lampard and Rooney should be dropped. There performances have been very poor and England need a change to have any hope against the jerries, Taylormade team and formation below.

----------------------------- james--------------------------

johnson------- -------upson -------dawson --------------cole

----------------------------carrick---------------------------

----------milner -------------------------------barry----------

------------------------------ gerrard------------------------

----------------- crouch ---------------defoe-----------------

cole and johnson to push on into midfield when possible as there seems far to much space in there for our opponents.centre halfs to squeeze up to,dont give them jerries any space in midfield

As football is a girls game that I don't bother to watch that much, can I make an observation. The 3 biggest national team problems I recall were, 1 Keane being kicked out of the Irish team, 2 G. Neville saying the English players were going on strike, 3 P. Evra kicking off about the Coach.
What have all 3 players got in common?

heheheheheheh:clap::clap::clap:

Right !!
 

I'm back off my holidays a day early, just to find you guys some winners for Saturday + now keep this quite shusssssssssssshh :eek!:

I'm going to see IF i can get an e/w bet on Paraguay to finish in the last four .. seriously this team beat both Brazil and Argentina in the qualifiers to get here :clap: .. Ive been watching all the games in-between sunbathing and surfing the big wave and now I'm ready for the Big bet 8-P