England 2 - 3 Croatia

[delon]

England has been knocked out of Euro 2008!!!

[delon]

Teams for EURO 2008

Poland
Portugal

Italy
France

Greece
Turkey

Czech Republic
Germany

Croatia
Russia

Spain
Sweden

Romania
Netherlands

Austria
Switzerland

[Scop3]

Good riddance.. The way England play... They dont even deserve to go to Euro 2008...

[matoko]

they had to momentum to kill off croatia when they drew it to 2-2...but they reverted back to 4-5-1..big mistake by mclaren..

[Scop3]

they had to momentum to kill off croatia when they drew it to 2-2...but they reverted back to 4-5-1..big mistake by mclaren..

Yah.. That mclaren is a dumbass :fryingpan.... He should be SACKED

[tenzo]

yay for germany :)
umm when will the dates n times for the matches be set?

[yihfeng]

I blame it all on the FA. Their choices with coaches leaves me speechless...

[elpibe10]

As a non-England supporter, I'm actually very glad that they didn't qualify.

IMO, this is a good lesson for the English team as some of the players (esp. those from Chelski) think that they're BIGGER than the national team.

I'm also glad that some of the cocky English pundits at Football Focus were proven wrong. :D

Good news indeed. :thumbs_up

... and BTW (sorry for OTing), also very happy that Argentina were beaten by Columbia. :D

[dxter]

Nice, they don't deserve a place anyway.

[Tanggang]

Well the problem with England lies with the FA's choice of manager. I suppose even if England did qualify, they'll do badly in the tournament itself and will eventually still replace the manager.

No doubt the manager lacks international experience, but I saw Van Basten & Klinsmann did pretty well for a first timer. So where does the fault lies? It has do with the manager firstly choosing the players and then choose a tactic to suit the players. That's precisely why we kept seeing Lampard partnering Gerrard in the middle of the park. No doubt they're both great players for their respective clubs but its pretty obvious they don't complement each other well for England.

Look what Van Basten did for the Dutch side. He chooses his style of play and went scouting for players to play to his style. In the process even if it means benching Van Nistelrooy, he'll do it. Players ego has to be cast aside, they have to have the passion to play for England.

[blackbuzz]

McClaren rules out resigning


come on lar... still got face to stay..zzz

can we have Mourinho?

[matoko]

yeah..JOSE would be the best choice at the moment..

[kiddocoo]

when you got McClown as manager, you will get circus act.
simply as that. No need a genius to figure that out.

[weixiang]

yeah...no m0re crappyengland!!!!!!

[kiddocoo]

McClown has been sacked by the English FA.
No more circus acts :(

[matoko]

finally sacked...now lets see who gets the job...Hope they take their time n appoint a 'GOOD' one..since they have a long long time before the next WC qualifiying..

[reddevil0728]

McClown has been sacked by the English FA.
No more circus acts :(
:songdah:

[elpibe10]

Ex-Chelsea boss Mourinho early England favourite
tribalfootball.com - November 22, 2007

Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is early favourite for the vacant England manager's job.

FA chief executive Brian Barwick today said the task of finding a new manager would be handled differently to the last appointment which turned into a fiasco.

"The recruitment process for the new coach begins now and we will do everything to get the right man for the job," he said.

"It will be done differently. We've got to learn lessons from the way we did it."

The FA have not ruled out appointing a foreign coach and have not set a time limit on the search for the right man.

The latest odds are:

Jose Mourinho 4-1; Martin O'Neill 5-1; Luiz Felipe Scolari 7-1; Guus Hiddink 8-1; Fabio Capello 10-1; Stuart Pearce 12-1; Alan Shearer 12-1; Sam Allardyce 16-1; Marcello Lippi 16-1; Harry Redknapp 16-1; Alan Curbishley 16-1.

[zzzMonster]

Mourinho probably can stand up to those england players with inflated egos. I cant see O'Neill and Scolari doing it. Hiddink is not too bad

Another another guy that is happy that England is out - but I naively hope this has no effect on the number of foreign players in the BPL

[idontknow]

gd lesson for england fa and their coach/players.

[kiddocoo]

Heard that Capello is interested in the England job.

[parka]

haahaaa.

Giving England a lesson on Italian defense.

[Shmutt]

Cool! I hate England anyway. They seem to destroy every game they play in. I'm so glad they didn't retain their rugby world cup too.

[skyline34_]

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