Yeah but so will the teams who face them knowing they can be beaten.

Eys, that is true. But then they need Chelsea to have a bad, or at least moderate, day.

For all the Peter Crouch fans out there, here is a vote of confidence from Sven, very reasuring words...

No goal for 19 games and counting.

Might as well bring in Wayne Rooney's brother, I'm sure he'd have a better time of it.

Exactly, he is very special lol...

Leave crouch alone!

There's no way you can defend him. There are about 9 other English strikers deserve that spot in the squad more than him and you know it

Yes, but they are just elegant whereas Crouch is 'very, very special'.
I wonder what is so special about him, his amazing inability to score goals when given the chance?

im sure he has had enough chances when he cost liverpool 7 million

Seriously if you dont get of his back i will butt heads LOL
But I have to say judge him at the end of the season, then you will see
I like the look of some of our youngsters....
Brighter times are ahead for the TRUE REDS

no, he is just very tall there's a difference

Crouch is a decent player, he just needs to get more confidence in himself.

Australia face Uruguay this Sunday at around 7am eastern standard time. It will be televised live on SBS for any Aussies who are interested.

We have only narrowly missed out on the last two world cups and with Gus Hiddinck as our new coach, a full strength side and the second leg down under we may actually make it. Australia has never been more excited about Soccer!

Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the Czech Republic...

By the way, I heard that the Swedish midfielder Kim Källström, who plays for Stade Rennais in France, got his car set on fire last night.

good luck australia in your world cup qualifier

Mr arsenal do you think we will beat Argentina?

*Dons mr arsenal voice*
No.
3-2 to the argies.

Your not Jasibaby (mr arsenal)
Imposter! Get him! lol

Im not sure I said this on my forum but if we go out with confidence we can do it.

Who cares if we beat the Argies...So long as we break a few of their bones I'll be quite happy..

Nah I don't like it when football gets like that. Ruins it for the player and his team. I just want to give them a thrashing.

Get in.

What a win England. Well done. We deserved it. Fantastic game. What a friendly.

england for the world cup come on up the england

I agree. We can do it now!

^Tis good news for all you English fans as your soccer team won, your rugby team defeated the Aussies(groan) and you brought about a collapse in Pakistans batting line-up!

Although Uruguay beat us 1-nil thats a result we can live with as we were really only aiming for a draw or a one goal loss as no team has ever defeated Uruguay in a world cup qualifier when playing them in Uruguay. Yet we did have far more possesion of the ball and missed numeorus shots at goal.
Now we get to face them on our turf with around 83,000 screaming Aussies ready to give them hell!

Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!

I agree, the England-Argentina game was class. Still bringing on the Crouch meister...

Crouch did nothing. The times he did get in the box he fell over.

Great subs by Sven.

As a Welshman, I show no bias against England's football team, I would love to see all home nations do well. After last nights match, which I agree was one of the best friendlies I've ever seen played, England have a good a chance as any of the favourites to win the World Cup. last nights match would have shown other countries that they are indeed a force to be reckoned with.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL YOU ENGLAND FANS WELL DONE!!

Lol, exactly...

You know what..? That was not really a freindly match. That game was about pride and being British..!

Well done our boy's...

Well, it looks like this next World Cup will be a interesting one. IN the last 4 minutes of a frindly game, Englan better a score of 2-1 againt them to 2-3 , defeating Argentina.

That is a good sign that Englan football level is improving...maybe in the World Cup they will be whorty oponents.

The world cup, is undoubtedly ours

Steady now.

Keep your feet on the ground.

Even though I'm welsh I would still like to see England do well. But lets not get ahead of ourselves.

im scottish and i dont care if i sound bitter , i am lol.


i dont want england to win it.

life wouldnt be worth living. ;-)

I do know what you mean, like after they won the rugby world cup.

I would like to say more, like better they win it than ******* but that would be tooo political and I could alienate myself on this forum.

correction , was about english , i had no vested interest in the game at all. the only game i cared about was played in glasgow , and considering we drew and shouldve beaten the USA , a team who are 66 places above us in the world rankings im happy.

the only thing worse than england winning the world cup would be THe yanks.

but afetr seeing them yesterday at hampden they havent a chance in hell .

how america have become 7th in the world ill never know, i mean we are sh*** and we were by far the better team yesterday without a few of our better players.

7Th

Crikey I never realised that, Does'nt say alot for Wales.

Though I dont agree with the rankings. It depends who you have played against.

Exactly.

You already alienated yourself by declareing that you are Welsh..? he he j/k

Well if its only now that you have just realised that then I have nothing to worry about.

This should really have been posted in the football thread. Don't you think. There is already a discussion going about this in there.

Oops, thought this thread was about the better football game.

Go Bengals!

The better football, dont make me laugh.

Aside for the tipical "nationalistic" coment like the one above, the macht was very intersting, and it looks like the next World Cup will be very competitive....id ont see any favourite...even Brazil have come down from their "podium" to more comon levels...

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i think the england game was the best international game i've seen in a while

The booing of the Argie national anthem was pretty shameful. It seems to have become almost a given for England nowdays. Even at the under21s on friday the French one was booed by practically 3/4 of the crowd. Although I'd be interested to know did anyone heard the Argentinian fans booin ours back?

Sadly, the animosity of the Malvinas/Falklands Islands is still present, and used by the nationalistics of both countries to their cause....i think is idiotic to hate other people country. The past is past, and try to heal the wounds, not reopened them whit hate.

Well it seems that the penalty that resulted in Uruguay scoring their one goal was actually supposed to be a penalty against them but as the linesman`s flag broke the umpire on the other side of the field made the call and gave it to Uruguay.

We know we can beat Uruguay down under, we have done it before, its just that this time we have to win by at least 2 goals!

Australia won, and are going to the world cup.....

I dont expect them to do well, but this is a big moment for us...