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Yes overpaid, overrated and overhyped players.
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It was an enthralling match. The minute Rooney wa sent off, England team totally changed into passionate players with bodies flying all over. Portugal did not look like scoring and it was England who created good oppurtunities (once again missed by Lampard). For once England played the best football of their worldcup and created chances even with 10-men. Exciting end on penalties. Shame one team had to go and shame it had to be england.
I dont see this Portuguese team beating wily france because of lack of depth and quality in their squad.
What Rooney did was stupid but Portuguese players played their part well in getting him sent off. Good riddacnce though.
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I think the system is to blame in england. The pressure to win on clubs is so great that they look for foreign players rather than investing on english youth. Result is that there are very few quality players from the premiership in the under 19 age group. So the future doesnt look so bright for england and this might have been their best chance to shine. Just take c. ronaldo for eg and how he developed into a quality player at man. utd, only to screw over england, and now if the reports are correct, bound for real madrid.
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I'm totally gutted, the team played their hearts out with 1 man down and then had a genuine penalty appeal turned down. Portugal didn't offer anything that suggests they were the better team but kept their cool in the shoot out. I don't think they could challenge France with a display like that.
In the end England have been a quarter final team under Sven, not offering much exciting football and so it was probably right they went out at this stage.
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sad way for england to go out...beckham has now stepped down as england captain...again a stupid decision by ref to show rooney a red card,it deserved a yellow not red...i thought england was the better team even when they were down to 10 men..in penalties england choked badly,they should've shown more confidence than that ,but their lack of confidence in taking penalties has been there downfall in the past too, so I was not surprised...you can't be no1 in any sport if you can't handle pressure and England could'nt once again.
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Lets revisit this article I once posted :omg:
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showpost.php?p=4163339&postcount=96
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England is enjoying a presumably golden generation of football players.
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England awaited this golden generation of football players even when Rooney was 15 and still throttling kids in Croxteth and other untelevised places.
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England is a genuine World Cup contender, a second wagering choice behind the Brazilian kings-of-kings.
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ENGLAND HASN’T WON A WORLD CUP SINCE 1966.
In fact, England hasn’t reached a final since 1966. Number of semifinal appearances since 1966: one. Number of quarterfinals: three (four now). Round of 16 exits: one. Exits in group play: one. Did not qualify: three. (That must’ve been fun.)
This 40-year drought (add 4 more years now) exists and looms and hovers and taunts and menaces and baffles and saturates and starves and unnerves despite England’s status as the home to the most glamorous sports league — the Premiership — on Earth, a league boasting 102 of the World Cup’s 736 players, 28 more than any other country’s league.
To have reached not even one World Cup final since a 1966 day when nobody on the pitch or in the stands wore any color, just black and white…
There’s a hunger.
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aww beckham just quit as captain 
why would he do that if he’s not planning on retiring yet?
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To have some sort of dignity. Whats worse, being removed from the job or quitting? He's lost twice as a captain the world cup.
Anyways, William Hill came out with the odds for the next captain. Terry is the highest with 1/2, then Gerrard with 2/1. I personally believe Neville would make the best captain because he's quite mature at 31, captain of Manchester United, and has worked under Sir Alex Ferguesson for quite some years.
I kind of feel as a defender he would be able to control the team better.
Neville's drawback is he may not last till 2010. But personally I feel a captain and coach should lead a new team after every world cup. The structure of the team changes and both are given a time span to adapt and do whatever with a team for a 4 year period.
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^ Neville might not even last till 2008. Gerrard is the best choice, Terry isnt bad but Gerrard has in him to inspire a team at a crucial time. Too bad he couldnt be utilized well by Sven.
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He is headed to R. Madrid. Its not good for Ronaldo to play for ManYoo anymore… his own players will screw him over… especially Rooney… he is ready to break him in half anwyays… R. Madrid or even Barcalona… or juventus is not a bad pick either… but he wants to play for r.madrid… ronaldo… go head dude and move before even your hotel room is burned to ashes… 
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Hahahaha!
Ohhh well, tough luck for England
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still went farther ahead than your holland brats, who by the way have the dubious honor of being a part of the worst spectacle in worldcup from a team that I have seen.
tougher luck for netherlands though, all that yipyap about being a favourite and could not even go beyond round of 16.
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I hate Rooney..
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For Ehsan bhai. Remember the special correspondent from London? :omg:
By Chuck Culpepper, Special to The Times
July 3, 2006
LONDON — *Sigh *…
There’s that jet on TV again.
Remember that jet? The spiffy British Airways Airbus A320 painted with the words “Pride of the Nation” and carrying England’s World Cup team? The plane some of us with no life whatsoever eyeballed for 90 minutes of live TV over here on June 5 as it turgidly taxied, waited, waited, waited and took off for Germany?
You know, the one chockablock with scones and jam and clotted cream for the ride?
Yeah, that.
We saw the vessel again Sunday, reminding us that even when England exits a World Cup in the quarterfinals, and the circus seems to end, and the usual post-circus lull seems to begin, it’s English football, so …
So the circus never really ends!
As the screen crowed, BREAKING NEWS, ENGLAND TEAM LANDS AT STANSTED AIRPORT, that plane carried so much baggage.
The heavy-metal superstar carried David Beckham, 31, newly resigned from his 5 1/2 -year captaincy, and eventually we’d see Becks and Posh and the three boys descend the airplane stairs, 7-year-old Brooklyn carrying a soccer ball with which to practice penalty kicks for 2022.
The envy of many a jet carried England’s most ferocious talent, Wayne Rooney, 20, who’d learn his pariah quotient after his blunder of Saturday, when his temper short-circuited his neurons, like Beckham in 1998, leading to a red card, like Beckham in 1998, all but assuring England’s ouster, like Beckham in 1998, but thus far not resulting in Rooney’s being hanged or burned in effigy by disgruntled pub denizens …
Unlike Beckham in 1998.
The plane carried outgoing Coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, 58, back into England, when so many fans would have preferred televised coverage of a plane carrying him briskly out.
And the plane brought many of the world-famous WAGs (Wives and Girlfriends), as German retailers wept, and nightclubs quieted, and Baden-Baden Veuve Cliquot sales plummeted.
The plane descended before our eyes between scant little clouds, with England’s World Cup drought set to balloon from 40 years to 44, with fans standing at the fences.
Here came the jet, and here came the aftermath. Who would become the new captain — maybe John Terry? Would new Coach Steve McClaren free Eriksson’s shackled offense? For how long would FIFA suspend Rooney?
Could this aftermath match the 1998 aftermath?
Back then, Beckham was hanged in effigy somewhere, purportedly in South London. And the nation pilloried him for months until a tabloid — a tabloid! — called for a cessation of the denigration. And coach Glenn Hoddle released an absurd World Cup diary that irked some players and suggested Beckham might benefit from Eileen Drewery, the faith healer Hoddle famously had hired for the team.
Yep.
And come winter, Hoddle did an interview in which London’s Times quoted him saying he believed in reincarnation and that disabled people were paying for sins in past lives. And the Football Assn. canned Hoddle pronto. And a heckler turned up to interrupt the news conference to shout at Hoddle, then admitted he’d had a few drinks beforehand.
The heckler, not Hoddle.
No, the aftermath probably can’t — shouldn’t — match 1998. Already Eriksson said, to England, of Rooney, “Don’t kill him, I beg you, because you will need him.” But maybe Eriksson will pen a book. And surely spectacle can persist.
After all, we saw that plane again Sunday.
It came back down.
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I don’t know if this has been posted before, but an interesting view of events and the Rooney incident. Watch it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqC3NE7TYVE&feature=Views&page=3&t=t&f=b