The big news is that of the U21 euro tournament which ended last night, with England not lifting the trophy.
With Germany winning 4-0, it was no closely fought match at all.
And the first person to come under fire, is Walcott, just because he's an Arsenal star and one of the most established player in the U21 English team.
I don't think it's necessary to defend Walcott and place the blame on someone else because it's just logical. He can be at fault for not scoring, but he's definitely not at fault for conceding 4 goals.
Pearce had no choice with suspensions to Agbonlahor and Campbell but to put Walcott as the front man. The lone front man, a role he is definitely not familiar with. In Arsenal if he had to play up front, he would have a partner. He never comes across as an out and out striker simply because he cannot challenge effectively in the air, much different from Adebayor and Nicky. Even Nicky has struggled and Adebayor is just lazy.
What Walcott possesses is great pace and his crossing is good at times, and these are better utilised on the wings.
For him to do well, there has to be a midfield creator, in which England does not have. Lee Cattermole for all his quality in his combativeness, does not have an ounce of creativity in his blood. Same for Fabrice Muamba.
England did what Arsenal has been doing - not fully using their player's abilities to their full potential.
Positions on the pitch and tactics employed are how important. You can't give the ball to Theo with the goal in front of him as well as 4 German defenders waiting to pounce with the only support behind him. It's just insane.
I like Theo and the rest of the world should just shut their trap. What did Sp*rs contribute? What did Man U contribute? Some shithead who got sent off. How about Liverpool? Even City gave Micah Richards. Chelsea have stinkin Mancienne who really sucks. I still don't get how come Arsene Wenger gets accused of not feeding the English team. When Gerrard ages and fades there aren't any Liverpool faithfuls, unless you want to count Glen Johnson who was bought to make up the numbers for UEFA's home grown rule.
On a much lighter note, I got to credit Eto'o for being so smart. He's milking the tit as tightly as possible. Making their financial prowess known to the world does have it's downside. Players know what they are worth and how much you are willing to pay them so they ask for more to move to some shit club in the Eastlands. If you don't show me the $ then I'm not coming, simple as that. If you want to give it to me then I'll consider.
£250,000 a week, plus a signing on fee of £12.5m. Otherwise I'd rather stay at Barca.
A very good move, albeit a greedy one, but very very smart. Citeh would have to consider how far they want to go. If they let this one over their heads there'll be more, and their transfer market will be such an exclusively hugely inflated one. Wouldn't Tevez want to same treatment too? Heh.
That's it for today.Labels: English National Team, Man City, Theo Walcott, transfer window hoo-ha
A Little Drunken Madness @ 3:42 PM
What a match. We all have vested interested in the U21 Sweden vs England game and they did well.
I shall start with the grand cliche we all know too damn well - it was a game of two halves
This point can easily make me throw a fit when I recall last season so it is advisable to never touch a copy of the 2008/09 season review.
England were easily 3-0 up at half time thanks to set pieces. If height were a determining factor to how much of a threat a team would be from dead ball play, it wouldn't apply to Sweden. The Swedes are tall. Nicky is tall. Ibrahimovic is tall. I suppose I can safely assume that Scandinavian dudes are tall. And yet it was England who profited from all 3 corners which resulted in goals.
Come the second half and no one in hell would have thought that the Swedes would fight back. Not until the 70th minute at least. I left the match on while I was doing my own things like watching some other show on my computer since at 3-0 and the way the Swedes started the half, it looked like England were through.
It was kinda like a wolf in sheep's clothing. They led the Englishmen on the pitch to believe that the game was all but over. Then suddenly they pulled a goal back. And another one.
I stopped watching my show. This is the kind of fightback which just gives you the feeling that it'll go all the way, and boy did it.
In no time at all, it was 3-3, and that freekick leading to the third goal was sublime. Kinda like the Dani Alves winner for Brazil to send them to meet the USA in the finals of the Confederations Cup, minus the retarded goal celebration and the pointing of his fancy "Daniel" tattoo. Who tattoo's their name in cursive across their chest?
Anyway. The game then went into extra time and it was no longer any game of two halves since it became 4. Of course, Fraizer Campbell was on song to make his application good enough for Hull City by getting sent off for a bad lunge. All too familiar. He's going to fit into Phil Brown's setup perfectly, especially since he has Manchester United and Tottenham education already on his CV.
And then now with Agbonlahor suspended for the final too, Theo will most certainly be the man leading the front.
Frankly, I do understand why he has come under fire recently. He belongs to a good football team and has most things going smoothly for him. He's got the adoration of the fans and all so people just want to try and stick things up him when they find the chance. Everyone forgets that he is still a youngling who needs time to grow and he's been through quite a bit since his first shoulder injury, which I believe, is affecting his game a little bit.
you would recall a time where Arsene Wenger declared that Walcott has the potential to be better than Leo Messi when he reaches that age. One thing he is lacking now is the ability to successfully get past his man. Many a times he bombed forward just to be dispossessed and the attack breaks down. He's been plying his trade mostly on the right wing so when he moves to the middle he tends to be quite anonymous. That would be the other thing he needs working on, which is his off-the-ball movement. I believe that when he gets the hang of those 2 he can truly be better than Messi.
And all others, including the cuntbag brother laughed when Wenger said what he said.
Wait and see is what I tell you.
And for more wise words from Wenger, ESPN's football up close is doing an interview with Le Prof, to be aired at 7pm this coming Monday. I have no freakin idea how to tape it since I don't have a dvd recorder so I'll pray some wise Gooner will do it and upload it to youtube or something. Interviews like these ain't like those Spanish shit where the English media conveniently lift off whatever they think is useful in order to do what they do best, to give a warped version of the truth.
So anyway, it went down to penalties and James Milner did a David Beckham slip. The cursed number 7 shirt for you. Let's hope Walcott doesn't take that shirt for the World Cup. He did however dispatch his penalty with ease. It was unlike the Roma one where he placed the ball and turned for his run up and then just went for it without looking at the keeper. This time he placed the ball coolly on the spot and then ran up to take his shot while the keeper was being a clown, with flailing arms trying to put him off.
It's the small things like that which shows you that he's becoming a man.
Then we have Gibbsy who did his bit as well. I guess it's safe to say that any Arsenal player is technically gifted and I'll add that to my list of why I love the Arsenal.
Twitter was a blast. It totally came to life with honest to God updates. Love it.
the_cannon sums it up beautifully:
Theo and Gibbs score - we've done our bit
I lol-ed at that one. And at this one too.
This is just why we need Sp*rs around. They're really a bunch of numbshite clowns who never fail to amuse. Now they're signing a petition to remove the mustard off their jerseys. When we wore the Herbert Chapman white jerseys in his honour they were going on about how wearing white is such a purity Sp*rs issue. Now they get yellow, which they refuse to call yellow but mustard. They can't tell colours apart can they? I can't say no one eat hotdogs in England since I should think it's the kind of food people eat at football games. Anyway, now we can laugh at them. Like hell Puma's going to change the kit because of some stupid petitions. If anyone knew better, petitions just do not work. They could get Arsenal fans to sign on it and it still wouldn't.
Another weird bloke is trying for reforms, but without a petition. Maybe he's one level smarter than the spuds. Phil Brown wants a 30 min timeout before post match interviews because he can't get his emotions in check like SAF and Arsene Wenger because he's inexperienced as a Premier League manager, not because he's a cunt. This has got to be the joke of the century. With the current technology, everything is reported in real time. Who wants to wait half an hour for post match reaction? It is not a fucking interview where we sit down with coffee and ask a whole host of questions listed on a piece of paper. It is meant to be spontaneous to capture the heat of the moment and why we bother watching sports at all. In Premier League terms where another fixture is to follow after the first game then who the hell is going to wait that half an hour to hear what the orange cuntbag has to say? Might as well just scrap it completely. The world would be a better place without having to listen to Phil Brown.
I shall end with the greatest bit of irony: the ref PB abused is taking over as the chief ref.Labels: A tag for cunts, English National Team, Kieran Gibbs, Sp*rs, Theo Walcott
A Little Drunken Madness @ 2:51 AM
So. I had to watch the whole game last night. Not that I was watching as intently as I would an Arsenal game but ya, watching.
Somehow, Capello seems to like to make half time changes so I was hoping that Walcott would come off for Ashley Young so I have all the reason to turn off the TV but he replaced Gerrard, who simply cannot play on the flanks. Young did so much better and that should speak volumes.
I wanted to set fire to the commentator who was constantly dissing Walcott with his every touch of the ball or when he lost the ball. For the love of God, he's only 20 and is still developing. If you are unhappy about his selection, take it out with the manager. I'm sure Walcott will outsprint you by a million times. He is so passionate about his game and country (sadly) that he's going to take part in 2 tournaments and forgo whatever summer R&R, going against his club manager's wishes.
So up your hole, commentator whose name I can't really be bothered to find out, except that it wasn't Martin Tyler.
I think I was pretty much caught up reading up on Osama Bin Laden come the second half. To be honest, I thought he was in his 80s. Weird beard and saggy face makes for such an assumption but in fact, he is 52, after his declaration of his birthdate. What I was interested in is his ideals and what he wanted for the world and why the hell do they call doofuses like him extremists. Now I know why. He completely lost me when his beliefs consisted of civilian deaths being part of the master plan. This numbshit claims immorality on homosexuality when he married 4 women and fathered 25. He too claims immorality on fornication, which is consensual sex between unmarried individuals. If every man was entitled to 4 wives, perhaps whatever fornication bullshit would not take place. If Osama had to be contented with 1 woman he would be more American than he wants to. Americans can go to Vegas everytime they want to have sex then. Marriage as an institution consists of one man and one woman and not one man and four women. That is what is truly immoral you cunthole.
I got onto the dead or alive chase (albeit a very short while) because of recent N. Korea rubbish. No one knows if dear freakin leader Kim Jong il is dead or alive.
Some things we'll never know. Anyway, that wonky dictator's wiki states that he is a proficient user of the internet and srsly, when the rest of his country isn't. I suppose he watches foreign television as well and probably subscribed to Setanta or not, since they're crashing out. Skysports then. If he ever supported an English team, it would definitely be Manchester United don't you think?
SAF is football's only dictator and we're all crying tears of sheer joy he didn't take the Arsenal job. He may have delivered more trophies to Arsenal than Arsene Wenger would have, but the fundamentals of the club, whatever makes Arsenal, Arsenal, and why I love the Arsenal, will all cease to exist.
Lastly, Capello is one hell of a manager.
Capello: I want an early goal
Capello gets it within 4 minutes.
How often does that happen? Save for the opponents having to be Andorra.Labels: A tag for cunts, Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, English National Team, Theo Walcott, what kind of fuckery is this
A Little Drunken Madness @ 1:36 PM
I'm exploring twitter. I think it's funny, especially when within hours of opening an account, I've got followers even though I haven't posted anything.
Why would random people want to follow someone they have no idea who they are?
Besides, I think it's pretty lame to post things like "I am going to eat at Tampines Macs at 6p.m. later". Or "I am going to play Sims 3 right freakin now."
Truthfully, it more to replicate my friend and follow Ellen and perhaps a few others. Definitely not to be followed.
My life is how boringly boring so it makes no sense to keep track of what I do everyday unless you're a serial stalker who has nothing else better to do than to stalk people. AH HAH! YOU'RE AT MACS! or something like that.
To set the records straight, I am not eating macs at 6p.m.. lol.
As usual, I did my bit of following on BBC Footie and then the headline news at the moment is Singapore group plans Magpies bid which made me lol quite badly after I read the article.
I've only ever heard of the Profitable Group when they flash the commercials during half time of games and frankly, I never knew they were Singapore affiliated. And I wouldn't have guessed that they'd have £100m in reserves to splash on buying a football club.
I would say finally, maybe Singapore will have her chance of being in the football playing arena, but the deal isn't confirmed and I wouldn't consider Profitable Group Singaporean. I don't understand why Singapore anyway. We're a society who are quite cautious of investments and things to do with ang mohs since our concept of them is that they're frivolous in their spending. Look at Real Madrid. After Kaka, they're still going after Ronaldo. Maybe Ronaldo will leave as well so that ManUre can cut their football debt as well bahahaha. Then I realised Chelsea doesn't really have anyone who is worth £50m. If they needed to sell players to service a debt they'll have to sell a few players.
I'd say we have Cesc Fabregas who could garner such a price tag but he's definitely not for sale. He had a minor head injury in his Spain match but it all should be fine. I suppose the change in hairstyle might have caused it.
There'll be a bit of football tonight and hopefully some Walcott action. Capello has expressed his faith in Theo and is excited to see the player he develops into. I still don't like him playing with the cunty national team but that's life. He's English. He'd better start or I'll have to watch the whole game with him on the bench waiting to come on and settle for booing Cuntley Cunt's every touch of the ball. If he does start though, I'll be turning off the TV (or changing the channel) when he gets subbed off.
P.S. Kobe Bryant is awesomeLabels: Cesc Fabregas, English National Team, Theo Walcott, transfer window hoo-ha
A Little Drunken Madness @ 3:48 PM
There is a reason why Arsenal fans do not watch England or support the English national team.
Walcott started in Almaty against the Kazakhs on the right side of midfield. I don't really follow, but he is first choice for England?
So why does Stuart Pearce still have rights over him?
He needs to age up another year faster.
Then at half time, Wright-Phillips was subbed on for Walcott. Cue the turning off of the TV.
I actually waited through half time. Mooo. No one needs to watch cunts play. I don't think I'm the only one who cringes at the thought of Walcott playing with the likes of Cuntley Cunt, Lampard, Gerrard, Terry, Rooney.
In a 360 degree change, I watched basketball, Lakers vs Magic.
The I figured why it's quite different. In basketball, players look for the foul. They want the whistle. They want a break in play. And their timeouts are timed to throw the opponent off their momentum.
There is no such thing as play on lol.
And I'm signing off for the day.Labels: English National Team, Theo Walcott
A Little Drunken Madness @ 2:00 PM
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