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The Official Ingurland are shit 'Euro 2012' thread.

Just heard about Cahill/Kelly. This really is starting to feel more and more like a written off tournament. What's with all the Liverpool players?!

Though wouldn't surprise me if we now go on to be glorious losers, or even win the bloody thing :D
 
Balbi said:
Not really. I'd tell them to go poke it if i'd just had a blinding season, won the league, and didn't make the squad - especially the squad Hod's picked.
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there was a point in my life where I would have said "everyone should be proud to play for their country", but given the bellends in the squad, you'd have to think twice
 
OneStrike said:
Really? what a cock, if true.
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Ditto Michael Carrick. Turns out both would have seen some playing time.

Balbi said:
Not really. I'd tell them to go poke it if i'd just had a blinding season, won the league, and didn't make the squad - especially the squad Hod's picked.
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True, and Micah always seems keen on playing for England. He didn't make a statement on it but that's the word on the City boards.
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/jun/03/england-euro-2012-rio-ferdinand

The case of Richards is very different and would have been solved far more easily had Hodgson spoken to the Manchester City player. Instead, Hodgson asked the England Under-21 manager Stuart Pearce to contact Richards to break the news that he had not made the squad. That was the first mistake because, once Richards had taken in the initial disappointment, he was entitled to be put out that the manager had not contacted him personally but telephoned everyone else himself. His pride was bruised, as it often is with footballers, but it was still a situation that could have been resolved with little fuss.

Perhaps it was that Hodgson felt Pearce, who knows Richards well, could handle it more sensitively. There could be any number of explanations, yet it was unusual in the extreme for a manager to delegate such an important call. Richards then had two conversations with Pearce. The first informed him he had not made the cut, which was a considerable blow given he was coming off the back of a title-winning season and Kyle Walker had already pulled out with injury. Pearce then arranged to phone back later to establish if Richards would go on the standby list. The background context here is that Richards had been almost permanently ignored by Capello, with one disappointment after another. Before the second conversation with Pearce, he spoke to his father, whose advice was to ask, politely, not to be considered – not in a fit of pique, but simply because he was so devastated.

Hodgson sent Richards a short text message the following morning saying he was "disappointed" with the decision and has not been in touch since. In the end Richards arranged a last-minute holiday to Barbados with Daniel Sturridge – in part, to get over the disappointment of missing out.
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This is becoming a Capello-esque fuck up in terms of communicating with players. The Ferdinand exclusion - and its looking more and more like a Tery related thing - is stupid. As he seems fit, he's certainly the best option around for at least a squad place. Rio and his agent should perhaps keep their traps shut, but the onus should be on the management team to sort the whole process out. Grade 1 fuck up.
 
lulz.. england aint gonna make it out of their group. they weren't anyway. but leaving the best english defender out, not once, but twice, is fucking hilarious for the neutral
 
gabi said:
lulz.. england aint gonna make it out of their group. they weren't anyway. but leaving the best english defender out, not once, but twice, is fucking hilarious for the neutral
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How many careers has EBJT ended now? Admittedly Bridge and Capello didn't have much time left, but the Ferdinand one is comedy gold as you say. :facepalm: What's next - if Terry declares he favours 'natural hair growth', Rooney gets to spend more time with his family?
 
I can't remember an international tournament with less build up, and that includes ones that England didn't qualify for ! All this Jubilee nonsense has really put footie on the back burner.
 
I think the Olympics might be more to blame for that than some arthritic old parasite celebrating 60 years of being unemployed
 
she seems on the news an awful lot in the weekend before a major tournament - nothing much on the news about the Olympics tbf
 
marty21 said:
I can't remember an international tournament with less build up, and that includes ones that England didn't qualify for ! All this Jubilee nonsense has really put footie on the back burner.
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I think it's more to do with England being awful, tbh. If we were good, papers would be full of it.
 
Wilf said:
This is becoming a Capello-esque fuck up in terms of communicating with players. The Ferdinand exclusion - and its looking more and more like a Tery related thing - is stupid. As he seems fit, he's certainly the best option around for at least a squad place. Rio and his agent should perhaps keep their traps shut, but the onus should be on the management team to sort the whole process out. Grade 1 fuck up.
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I don't see why Rio should shut up this time. It can only be a terry thing now that they've overlooked for a reserve player from a mid-table club.
 
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