England vs France - Capello will awake to unfair headlines

And yet again the fickle England fans jump to accusations of Capello not being up to the job. Twitter has been inundated with the usual remarks all night, so much so that Capello has been trending for a majority of the evening. The newspapers will certainly be taking a similar note. But is it fair?


Sadly I couldn't get tickets for this one so had to watch on ITV like everybody else, and yes it wasn't the prettiest of performances and we did seem outclassed by the only team who flopped harder then us in the World Cup (if you forget Italy's dismal group stages). But I gotta say, did we expect to win? Look at the teams: France have Abidal, Malouda, Benzema and Nasri; we have Walcott, Gerrard, Milner and Carroll. Other then Gerrard we scream unproven - the four I just named from France scream world class. I am not saying we shouldn't expect to beat France, we should - but only if we play a full strength team. Capello wanted to experiment and we all commended him for calling up Henderson, Carroll and Bothroyd - but don't expect them to bring victory on their first appearance. Capello wanted to see what his options were and this helped him have a glimpse at that overview. The score was almost certainly not the most important thing for him today. England fans are too quick to judge these days, I am sure we will now all be asking why Crouch never starts; but do we want him to over Carroll. To me Carroll is an athletic version of Crouch. He has the height, the ability and the skill - tonight was the start of his international career and Capello has said he was impressed. Crouch may have got the goal today. but Capello has never been a fan and tonight he may have found his replacement.

I have no doubt in my mind that Capello will wake up to unfavourable headlines; I also have no doubt they won't bother him in the least. He made his choices for a reason and they were good ones, lets not completely rip him apart just because Benzema decided to actually turn up to this game and we lost to a team who, despite a poor World Cup showing, are always goes to be tough competition.

Awesome Argies!

Argentina actually rock my fuckin socks! Somehow they managed to take part in a bloody boring game and yet still manage to be absolutely fanBLOODYtastic! I must say that my bet that they will win it is looking better and better! Messi yet to score, but it will happen - best player in the world!

Tell ya what though, was sitting in the bar watching all these games today (three - bloody brilliant) and all we could talk about was the game tomorrow. Nerves are high here, imagine what there like in the team. Gerrard finally decided to talk up, time for him to show he can lead tomorrow. Time for Rooney to show he is best in the world. Time for England to grab the game by the scruff of the neck and play the way we know they can. Bout time we saw Joe Cole out there ain't it, get a bit of flair out there - fuck it even if we do loose at least he will entertain us as we do. I reckon Ashley Cole will have another stormer tomorrow - fuck him, he makes me so confused (not in a gay way), he is absolute scum on and off the pitch but damn it I am glad he is British!

The drink took its toll on Butters, he has literally been in bed or the toilet all day. He wet the bed twice last night. Not looking good for him. Funniest fucking thing happened to Gaz. So the Affie Doc perhaps was not the best option, the rash has gone but so have his pubes! The cream made the fuckers fall out! How absolutely brilliant is that! He rekons he can still pull though, he actually claimed he liked it cos it made his little roger look not so little. He claimed that if England win tomorrow he is going to have a threesome with two drunk England fans. Now you might be thinking he has already arranged this and knows a couple up for it, but no no - he just an arrogant wanker that thinks he has that much charm. Now I am rather worried about my long dry spell. Not had one bird out here yet, can't go back home having not banged one. Tomorrow night is the night, I am going to unload on someone - don't care what country and to be honest what they look like - Any Hole is A Goal as they say! Wish same was true for England, then that big Beckham shaped hole in our team would be brilliant! Daz is his usual drunken self...he burnt today, peeled the whole fucking thing of in the pub - that's the way to impress the ladies!

Oh yeah and the fucking frogs are out!! FanBLOODYtastic!