Laughgate
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 12:50AM Ashley Cole and Ledley King, laughing together. Sharing a laugh and a joke. Sorry, I meant a LAUGH and a JOKE. The shame. The shame of these two uncaring millionaires more interested in champagne than football who dare to dance on our World Cup grave. Cole was awful at left-back wasn't he? Wasn't he? He hasn't exactly hogged the headlines on the pitch. And King quite obviously bottled it and refused to reappear for his country after a brief cameo. One knee? He's only got one working knee? That's how bothered he is. One knee equates to half the required commitment. He can't even be bothered to train properly the lazy git. Laughing and joking, because he was no doubt too busy trying to work out where dirty jokes originate from so he can find the perfect one to share with his partner in crime. Neither of them are comparable to the likes of Gerrard; Liverpool's engine, England's saviour.
Astonishing that the guilty two have managed to forget about the 4-1 drubbing so quickly whilst the rest of the nation continues to drown in sorrow.
I say, hung, drawn and quartered and then once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George'! And let's not fret because we can build our future on our youngsters like Andy Carroll and Theo Walcott and Micah Richards who won't let us down, who will grow together and will be blessed with our complete support and win us the next World Cup, yes win us the next World Cup. Because it's in our blood.
Rule Britannia.
Reader Comments (29)
you failed to mention how bad dawson done! i mean..he was terrible werent he?....oh wait...
LOL....basically some shite of a photographer is sitting there waiting for an England player to smile - even a hint of a smirk and he's getting snapped! Unfortunately, there will be some people that will believe the tripe that rag dares to call news.
England were shit...the fans have been let down. We all know this. Don't need the Sun making up nonsense just to compound it. Impact journalism, nothing like it!
I think they're both laughing at the thought of wet spam trying to sell green and upson after they combined to lose us this world cup.
The one thing that staggers me about the English is that they suffer from grand illusions. Until England earth a Fabregas, Xabi, Alonso, Torres, Fabiano, Kaka, Pirlo, Lucio, Forlan, Messi, Kjaer, Higuain, etc etc etc, then dream about winning a World Cup. English player and especially England players will never ever win the Cup until the mentality of the players, coaches and to a degree supporters change. Boring, predictable and down right average is the bases of a typical English side. Sure you may have he most exciting league in the world, but not the best. The only way tou will ever have the best league in the world is when you attract my buddies mentioned above. Premier league English players are big fish in a small small pond, and their egos match! No surprise England are out none at all. Crouch, Heskey, Terry and co could not break into any of the big sides in Europe fact. Just look at how many English players play in the European leagues? Ummmm none, that tells you the full stroy
DNO...Maybe you have a point... What 's you opinion of your cricketers? No Ashes, just lost the 20/20 World Cup...AND bashed 3-0 in the one days by the Poms!
Reply to DNO Australia,
Wanker, I live in OZ just like you, attract "players like KJAER" don't you know that the mighty SPURS have just signed him. Torres plays for the Bindippers, and has done for the last 2 seasons.
Honestly get your facts right before you start talking out of your arse, Tosser.
I 100% agree with anything The Sun chooses to report on, sorry I mean ANYTHING. Their journalists are so advanced in their reporting techniques that I for one can't wait to read what has happened in the world the previous day, be it the conflict in the Middle East, Our boys in Iraq & Afghanistan, the environmental damage happening in the Gulf Of Mexico or whether the fat bird who does the Iceland adverts has brought her ex a new motor & or Jordan has changed her name & husband again & is seeking more publicity by getting her tits out.
Supergoals we luv it
God i hate The Sun !!
Yidango you have a point....but it's not cricket we are talking about. Win the ashes series here and then we will buy you a beer. Villa you half breed the kist is these guys aren't English and yes Torres plays for the moment for Liverpool the point is numb nuts the England squad do not have these types of players that would seriuosly challenge the Brazils or Argentinas of the world jerkoff
DNO. I think I can see where you were going with that argument i.e. (un)earth some English versions of the quality of those players, but your statement was flawed as soon as you said "The only way tou will ever have the best league in the world is when you attract my buddies mentioned above". Ossie Villa was right to point out that of those 12 players mentioned (Fabregas, Xabi, Alonso, Torres, Fabiano, Kaka, Pirlo, Lucio, Forlan, Messi, Kjaer, Higuain) 4 have already played in the Prem, whilst at least 3 of the others have already been heavily linked with moves here with Kjaer being corectly reported as on the brink of joining Spurs.
I'm glad you're acquainted well enough to call them your buddies, so perhaps you can convince them to join us in the premier league or that retirement village you call the NSL down there :)
DNO
Every dog has it's day, we could take the south Americans with a passionate team and good tactics, unfortunately we have neither at the moment, we have a bunch of castrated headless chickens, no balls, no direction, and I think Stephen Hawking has a better first touch than Rooney
Two questions with that list of future England players at the Sun though,
1) Where's Bostock?
2) Is that the best 11 they could find? Really?? The Sun are poor aren't they
I feel ashamed that this came from one of our ex managers.....
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/worldcup2010/3007192/Terry-Venables-picks-Wayne-Rooney-as-his-No1-player-at-the-World-Cup.html
Being partialy deaf, I have learned to lip read and can let you know what was making Ledley laugh.
I just picked up the last bit of what Cashly said as they got to the bottom of the plane stairs... 'and tomorrow, just to really fcuk her off, I'm changing my name to Tweedy'.....
Is anyone else a slightly, titchy, itsy-bitsy bit worried about where this apparent £28m bid for the Palermo wonder-boys is being financed from?
Mes
NO!
Another non-event of a story from the rags. Scapegoats of the day special.
Kjaer I understand. Good player and we don't know what might happen to Ledley and Woodgate next season but Cavani? I know a bit about him as I watch some Italian football and I'm not sure he is going to add much to the team.
What happened to the world class player we needed to sign to compete at the highest level next season the 20-30 million pound striker?
I'm hopeful of us signing Joe Cole but not sure where in the midfield you'd play him. He says he wants to play centrally, which would mean pushing modric out left and no room for hudd in the middle making us a little more lightweight
Rich,
seriously, what is there to smile, or even smirk about, when you team/nation has just been humiliated hours before, against the Germans?
I was devastated at 15 years old when we lost the cup final 1 - 0, I didn't smile for days, (but i did have a shocker)
These two are a disgrace, still I'm sure they will give a f**k what we think, when they are in the Bahama's tomorrow.
you've let your country down, you've let your country down, you've let your country down x infinity to be sang at most grounds next season.
Club football will ease the pain.
Wot, no sackcloths!?
Well here we go again i watched England Cricket nearly play has bad and turned into wobbling wrecks thank god we won .......Now we are looking to Andy Murry to win Wimbledon expect another roller coaster ride . Ledley Laughing he should have bean crying , because he would not have let closer mug him like Upson did or the other four Goals or Dawson . We where undone by the click Terry and is cronies and not Capello picked the Team. We have david fat face on sky saying we have no young players comming through he is having a laugh we left Johnson Wallcott Huddleston Agbonlahore at home . sPURS players wher never going to be allowed to do a West ham by having more than one or two in the team because of Chelsea Utd Liverpool players dominating .
Possible formation based upon us signing Cole, Kjaer and Cavani ????
Gomes
Charlie Dawson Kjaer Bale
Wilson Hud
Lennon Cole Modric
Cavani
Mark my words...Honda will be a household name after this world cup.
Apologies if this has been said before, but here goes.
Among the menagerie of ills that caused England's ignominious exit one thing keeps irking me. It's Gerrard's post-match interview, in which he laments Lampard's disallowed goal and goes on to say that Germany's third goal "killed the game".
That third goal was scored on 67 minutes. With 23 minutes to go. Plus injury-time. That was potentially up to half an hour remaining in which 'the nation's finest' - galvanised by Captain Heroical - had the opportunity to score two goals.
What captain, in possibly the last World Cup match he'll ever play, would give up with half an hour to go? What captain would allow himself even to think of giving up in front of his team-mates, knowing that on his example rested his country's hopes and expectations? What captain - on the highest footballing stage - would surrender before the final whistle ?
Stevie G. That's who.
nah nothing wrong with english players....thats a load of bolllocks..capello is il crapo like senior el ramos...f*ck me redknapp would have had england playing like champions...english premier league is fast ,attacking.physical,tough, skillfull did england play like that? nope....so why didnt the manager have england play the way they do in the premier league every week? coz es a goose..cmon i mean heskey? off the bench? in a world cup?rooney was crap 2...out of form and carrying an injury?....
It's a valid point. Where was the EPL tempo?
Although another valid point is, why do other players of other nations - some of which are average players in comparison - still appear to be far more technical and intelligent with their touch and passing then our players?
Egos. Even Ledders said something along those lines after his so-so display against Egypt. When you've got pampered ego's of the likes of Terry, Gerard, Rooney, Lampard I've no doubt they looked down at all their opponents.
Tactics, team selection and communication. All things that don;t need to be put under the microscope cause the deficiencies are so evident to anyone that's not blinkered.
It's just occurred to me that supporting England is a lot like supporting Spurs. High expectations that we should be consistently up amongst the best, an endless stream of false dawns, experiments with foreign coaches, oh-so-nears, shit luck and having to look back to the 60s since we last won the Big Prize.
BTW the Kjaer story appears to be bollocks, but has been leapt on by nearly every media outlet for some reason. If you read the words spoken by El Presidente it's clear that no such offer has been made. I can't believe the sum touted would be mainly for a centre half, an area amply covered already surely.
England were missing Jenas in the middle
Every England fan should read this (& probably a few suits at the FA should as well);
TOM HUMPHRIES in Johannesburg
FOCUS: ENGLAND'S EXIT: SO WHAT will England do? Change the tip of the pyramid and sack Fabio Capello, or examine the entire structure which lies underneath and see if it could serve Capello better?
Interestingly, England may have come to a crossroads with this World Cup. Most polls being run in the thoughtful end of the English newspaper market had football followers voting to retain Capello. Undoubtedly he made mistakes before and in South Africa, but he draws from the shallow end of a quite unhealthy football pool. English football has failed Fabio more than Fabio has failed English football.
Imagine, for instance, that you are Sam Hutchinson. Nobody has heard of you but you are in your late teens and quite a talented defender. Been with Chelsea since you were a nipper. England Under-19s, England Under-21s. All good. A few injury problems over the last year or two but you are still part of the cream of the crop.
Nineteen years old and you have made just a couple of first team appearances. So should you be picking out your Ferarri? Should you be alerting MTV that they might want to be featuring your crib in a year or so? Will you place an ad in the personal columns of Wag Weekly ?
Probably not, because the downside of playing in the so-called greatest league in the world is that the debt-ridden corporation you turn out for is unlikely to take a chance on you when it has a shedload of expensively acquired foreign talent ahead of you in the queue. Look around you son. The last home-grown player to make it at Chelsea was John Terry.
Or you could be Kieran Gibbs at Arsenal. Tipped for greatness, but not before Gael Clichy breaks a leg and Arsenal can’t find an established international to replace him in a hurry. Then you might get the 20 games or so needed to bed yourself in.
Now imagine your name is Thomas Mueller and you are a few months older than Sam Hutchinson. And you are at the World Cup. You came to Bayern Munich as part of a youth scheme which specialises in gathering in players from Munich and its environs. Six of the current first team are from the city or just outside.
You came through one of the club’s talent weekends when up to 500 local kids will play in street league-style games while coaches look for those with natural technique and an understanding of movement.
They raised you to play within the club’s 4-3-3 system and coached you how to play in a couple of different positions. Coming through the system you trained at the same venue with the senior side, played a season in Liga 3 for Bayern’s second team and continued on stream.
You played 52 first team games for Bayern last year, yet another product of a youth system which has produced Thomas Hitzlsperger, Philip Lahm, Bastien Schweinsteiger, Piotr Trochowski, Andrea Ottle, Toni Kroos and Holger Badstuber, as well as up-coming phenomenons such as David Alaba, the youngest ever Austrian international, and Diego Contento.
By the way, 52 games Thomas? Shouldn’t you be as exhausted as the English lads? How come you covered 8,296 metres in the course of the Ghana game then? And just short of that in each game since? What’s the matter with you? You play in a league with a smattering of foreign talent but one which draws excellent crowds and depends on local players. You play for a club which turns a profit, owns 80 per cent of it’s shares (Adidas and Audi own about 10 per cent each ) and which is run by football men like Uli Hoeness and Karl Heinz Rummenigge. And this World Cup is becoming your stage.
In those two stories lies England’s football problem, a problem which having a manager who is paid twice as much as the next best paid manager at the World Cup cannot solve.
The quality end of the Premier League is the place where English players need to be if they are to thrive and develop properly. The top end of the Premier League, however, is a festering pile of debt-ridden clubs hooked on foreign talent and desperate to keep their lips close to the teat of Champions League action.
The English influence on its own league decreases annually.
The so-called golden generation of English players who travel home from South Africa in what is by now a familiar gown of ignominy are victims of a football culture which leaves them under-prepared for the game at the highest level and a media culture which overhypes them.
The Premier League, with its 100mph game and its dire financial management, is a poor learning ground at the best of times. Two-thirds of the clubs live in fear of the financial calamity that is relegation; the rest live in fear of the tsunami which is failure to qualify for Europe. In a culture of fear and overspending, managers take fewer and fewer chances on what young talent they do produce.
We know that well looking in from an Irish perspective. Gifted player after gifted player has been denied the break and the time they needed. Richie Partridge was once the next big thing at Anfield. He played one senior game for the club, a 7-0 win over Stoke City. Not enough to earn a second game. Willo Flood in his Man City days, Graham Barrett and later Anthony Stokes at Arsenal. Liam Miller when he moved to Manchester United. The list is endless.
Now with England’s golden generation trooping off into the sunset the pool of youngsters to replace them is shallow and (like Theo Walcott with England) mistrusted within a culture of damage limitation. Where else would you get a player like Michael Dawson, 26 and still uncapped and yet being talked about in some circles as the England captain for 2014?
English clubs play the ball so quick and with such an air of desperation that players bred on the old British virtues of heart and bravery struggle when the game is slowed down and things become more cerebral.
Before Sunday’s cruel dressing down by the Germans England had demonstrated a worrying tendency to give the ball away unnecessarily. The Fifa stats for the competition confirm this to be more than just a vague impression. For instance, while most of the German players maintained at least an 80 per cent completion rate for their passes through their four games to date (with Per Mertesacker up there with 86 per cent), a figure as central to England’s hopes as Steven Gerrard had a 64 per cent completion rate out of 250 passes: that is, he gave the ball away 90 times in the course of four games. John Terry was the only English player even to hit the 80 per cent mark.
When you start with such a level of technical handicap that your star midfielder gives the ball away one in every three times he gets it things are all uphill from there. Incidentally, Toni Kroos, the young German, has had limited exposure so far but is a statistical oddity: he has a 100 per cent completion across the board.
The English game is like the Wall Street of two, three years ago: storied, the brand leader at what it does but on the brink of collapse because all its castles are built in the air.
It would be no harm to be able to afford fewer and fewer €170,000-a-week foreign stars, no bad thing to legislate for the phasing out of mass debts, a good idea to look at ownership issues. It’s necessary to look at the national coaching policy with the aim of producing less muscle and more imagination. The dearth of truly creative players coming through England’s youth academies is alarming. It can’t be there aren’t kids with creativity in them; just, in a culture of fear, the risk has to be taken out of the football and the kid must be strait-jacketed into a system.
The scant dividend of a palsied football culture was what England experienced in the last four games, the shuddering realisation that technically they were no better than the best of the weakest of the teams they faced. Fabio Capello can’t change that, he can only work with what he is given.
The task is to change the cloth and not the tailor.
Apparently....
Courts held a further 2 week gagging order on Steve Gerrard’s private life, turns out he got his wife’s sister pregnant (not a 16 year old).
Will hit the newspaper in 14 days, the judge held the gagging order to protect FA while they decide on Capello, and the future of English footy…
John Terry and the England boys all know about it and JT had an argument with Capello because Gerrard got to keep the captains armband. The tension in the camp was down to JT and half the team saying Gerrard was a disgrace and the other half of the squad backing Gerrard. The press conference was related to the tension and JT wanted Gerrard exposed - they hate each other.