I think the formation they should have played is:
________________Robinson_________________
Neville______Carragher___Brown________Cole
Wright-Phillips__Gerrard/Lampard___Jenas___Downing
_____________________________Rooney________
_____________________Johnson________________
I mean Give the young'uns a chance! Becham, Owen etc. We know their capabilities, and Beckham has to be dropped sometime! He just isn't playing well. Face it Sven!
Gerrard for Captain!
No. I would give Johnson the whole game. Look what Holland did. Their whole team were youngsters, apart from Van Bronchurst and Van Der Sar.
The whole point of a friendly is to find out a players strength, and that is what Sven Goran Erikssen didn't do. Lampard and Gerrard- We already know how good they are, so don't start them both. I had only one of them in my team to keep the discipline.
Owen- already know. Rooney would have to start as he is the only striker they had who plays off the front man, and dlivers a penetrating pass to unleash the striker.
Time of Evil:
Your name is a disturbingly good description of Scottish football at the moment.
England have the big 3, Scotland have the big 2: Celtic and Rangers, both from Glasgow and the rivalry between them is based on religion. Rangers are Protestant (up til the late '80s they only signed protestant players) and Cetic are catholic. Both clubs sing offensive songs. Rangers about battles in 1600s and killing Fenian warriors and Celtic sing pro-IRA songs. Violence after Old Firm derbies is common. From hence forth Rangers and their fans are known as "huns" and Celtic and their fans are known as "tims". A lot of their fans come from Northern and Southern Ireland. The OF are contantly trying to leave Scotland to play in the Premiership/Atlantic League in order to get more cash and win in Europe. Everyone who is not an OF fan hates them.
The 3rd biggest team in Scotland is Aberdeen FC, nickname is "the Dons" cos our stadium is by the River Don. Other teams call us sheepshaggers because the perceive Aberdeen to be rural. Never been relegated, always big because for nearly 100 yrs there was no team in the league north of Aberdeen so we had a lot of highland support. Started giving the OF a go in the '70s, then a certain Alex Ferguson became manager. In the '80s Aberdeen were the best team in Scotland and for a couple of years the best in Europe. Have a rivalry with the huns cos their fans used to rip up Aberdeen when they were in town. various nasty incidents on the pitch and the fact that the tims were rubbish in '80s and early '90s intensified rivalry into hatred. Aberdeen are one of the very few teams in Scotland without some religious leaning. As such the club has gathered fans from other areas of Scotland who canna be arsed with religion.
Hearts and Hibs are from Edinburgh and are the next biggest teams. There are similar religious origins of these teams with Hearts being P and Hibs C. However their rivalry is mainly just cos they're from the same city. The Dundee clubs are similar but smaller. Dundee (P) and Dundee Utd (C). Utd were good in the '80s but nae as good as Abdn.
There are 3 governing bodies in Scotland. The Scottish Football Association, the Scottish Football League and the Scottish Premier League. Beurocracy one mad. The main league, the SPL, consists of 12 teams at the moment. They play 3 rounds of fixtures then it splits into a top 6 and bottom 6. The top 6 play each other once to decide the championship and European places. The Bottom 6 do the same to decide relegation.
There are 2 cup competitions: the League Cup, for teams in the 4 divisions; the Scottish Cup, for everyone - like the English FA Cup.
Nobody outside the OF have won a trophy since 1998 when Hearts won the Cup. Nobody outside the OF have won the league since Aberdeen in 1985.
Standard of football ranges from upper Premiership at the top of the SPL to League 1 at the bottom of the SPL.
Scottish Football went down the pan after OF started spending serious dosh. Huns have £80m debt, tims have £20m debt. Other clubs tried to match their spending to win stuff, didn't work. Hearts £17m debt, Hibs £10m, Dundee £16m, Aberdeen £9m.
All this daft money going on foreign players means there is no real talent being homegrown players, hence the crapness of the national team.
It is a shite state of affairs.
YES!!!!!!!! 'ello to everyone here who hates Man Utd!
As for me - i was born and bred in the city of the MOST SUCCESSFUL BRITISH TEAM EVER, the team i've supported all my 31 years - LIVERPOOL FC.
"Poor Scouser Tommy"
Let me tell you the story of a poor boy
Who was sent far away from his home
To fight for his king and his country
And also the old folks back home
So they put him in a Highland division
Sent him off to a far foreign land
Where the flies swarm around in their thousands
And there's nothing to see but the sands
In a battle that started next morning
Underneath an Arabian sun
I remember that poor Scouser Tommy
Who was shot by an old Nazi gun
As he lay on the battle field DYING! DYING! DYING!
With the blood gushing out of his head (OF HIS HEAD!)
As he lay on the battle field DYING! DYING! DYING!
These were the last words he said...
"Oh... I am a Liverpudlian
I come from the Spion Kop
I like to sing, I like to shout
I go there quite a lot (every week)
We support the team that's dressed in Red
A team that we all know
A team that we call LIVERPOOL!!!
And to glory we will go
We've won the League, we've won the Cup
We've been to Europe too
We played the Toffees for a laugh
And we left them feeling blue - Five Nil!
One two
One two three
One two three four
Five nil!
Rush scored one
Rush scored two
Rush scored three
And Rush scored four!
*sits back and waits for the abuse from the anti-scouse crew* lol!
🍺 😄
i like liverpool
but wolves are my team!
Fight, fight, wherever you may be,
We are the boys from The Black Country.
We'll meet you all, wherever you may be,
For we are the boys from The Black Country.
was born, under a Wanderers scalf.
I was born, under a Wanderers scalf.
Do you know where hell is?
Hell is at West Brom!
Heaven is at Molineux,
And that's where we come from.
I was born, under a Wanderers scalf.
I was born, under a Wanderers scalf.
Wanderers! Wanderers
Once upon a time, there was a tavern,
Where we used to raise a glass or two, or three or four!
Where we used to while away the hours,
Thinking of the things we used to do.
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end,
We'd sing and dance for ever and a day.
We'd live the live we choose,
We'd fight and never lose,
For we're The Wolves, oh yes we are The Wolves!
La la la la la. La la la la
La la la laaa la, la la la la...
The Northern Lights of old Aberdeen
Mean home sweet home to me
The Northern Lights of Aberdeen
Are what I long to see
I've been a wanderer for all of my life
And many a sight I've seen
God speed the day
When I'm on my way
To my home in Aberdeen
When I was a lad, a tiny wee lad
My mother said to me
"Come see the Dons, the glorious Dons,
down at Pittodrie"
She called them the heavenly dancers
They danced upon the sky
I'll never forget that wonderful sight
down at Pittodrie.
(to tune of Lord of the Dance)
Stand Free wherever you may be
We are the famous Aberdeen
We don't give a fcuk
Whoever you may be
Cos we are the famous Aberdeen.
(tune of Land of Hope and Glory)
We hate Glasgow Rangers
We hate Celtic too (they're shite)
We hate Dundee Utd
But Aberdeen we love you
All together now.....
repeat above
Not many of our songs are pro-Aberdeen, mostly anti-everyone else, especially Glaswegians.