England v Italy 11 PM. (Mod warning linked in OP)

efb

Henry: Pirlo is that good he meant to hit that crossbar

edgecutter

extra gravy wrote: »

Why? When did Henry do that celebration at the end of the match?

Remember the time he handled the ball against Ireland and went celebrating shaking his hand at the French crowd. Tosser of the highest order.

Muff Richardson

What's the story with bradys jacket turning into a denim jacket

Cienciano

So who was worse for england, gerrard or rooney?

briany

There's every chance that Italy could make a clean sweep of this group and leave the other three fighting for the scraps. In that case, four points could do England.

Danny Murphy is a good pundit

Turtyturd

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

"He's the main man"
"He's going for the goalscoring record"
"Check out his workrate bruv"

'He played better than Sturridge'

NIMAN

HOw can Danny Murphy say that its understandble that Sturridge and Sterling tired, as 'they are young'.

Surely young players shouldn't tire as much as the likes of Pirlo?

Witcher

If they ever clone footballers Pirlo should be first in line, future generations deserve to see him play:pac:

d22ontour

Cienciano wrote: »

So who was worse for england, gerrard or rooney?

This thread has already been littered with club biased rubbish posts already, why suffer us with more by asking that ? :P

shamrock55

I can honestly see rooney being dropped for next game, gerrard however will never be dropped

LightningBlue

Murphy would be a much better co-commentator/analyst than Phil Neville. He at least has an original opinion.

darced

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Turtyturd

Linekar was terrified asking that question.

extra gravy

edgecutter wrote: »

Remember the time he handled the ball against Ireland and went celebrating shaking his hand at the French crowd. Tosser of the highest order.

It's hilarious and very boring at this stage that some posters can't cope with Henry appearing on tv without resorting to insults. Get over it ffs.

CurryFlavoured

The criticism of Gerrard is OTT. His job is to sit deep, he doesn't have the same role that he used to because the legs aren't there. He didn't play great but you couldn't take him off for anyone other than maybe Lampard or else you would have completely killed the midfield balance. Wilshere or Lallana for Gerrard would have suicide for example.

NIMAN

They don't like naming people do they?

"When Baines had no cover in front of him",

just say it "Rooney didn't bother himself covering in the 1st half".

eagle eye

The man they should be slating is Joe Hart. He was out of position quite a few times including for the first goal. No reason for him to be so far off his line for that one. If he was properly positioned he would have saved it. The time Jagielka cleared it off the line he made an insane decision to come out and try and take on Balotelli and it almost cost them.

Rooney deserves criticism for his miss and overall performance but so do many others. Sturridge scored from a Rooney cross but neither did well tonight.

Dozen Wicked Words

Over riding feeling is one of regret. That I missed Kathleen Turner in Body Heat.

Anyway, Rooney was never really played in position so tough being too hard on him, Gerrard was very quiet, disappointing after how well he played for Liverpool last season, he may come good next game, hopefully. Most of the young lads played well. Henderson was good I thought, result was disappointing but unsurprising.

Ah well, onward and upward. Time to try and stay awake for next game.

efb

@wallacemick: “@PCarrESPN: Italy completed 92.2% of passes vs England. Highest pass pct by any team in a #WorldCup game since 1966.” Forza Italia...

Celly Smunt

nessun problema

Witcher

eagle eye wrote: »

The man they should be slating is Joe Hart.

He was lucky with the Pirlo free, completely misjudged it. You'd think he'd have learned not to assume anything with Pirlo especially after he made a show of him with that penalty a few years ago:pac:

Smithwicks Man

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Tipping Balotelli to light this game up and Verratti to outshine Pirlo

Delighted to see the main man get the winner :P

Can still see England getting through

Boom__Boom

inspiring interview with Hodgson there.

"if we were better at scoring goals, we could have scored more goals"

UnitedIrishman

Typical RTE putting the blame on Gerrard, typical BBC blaming Rooney.

No chance that they can just say they lost a decent game whilst having a go to a tough team and just say so. Daft that players become brilliant and become the answer by sitting on the bench.

GreNoLi

Any gifs of the dummy by pirlo, the one the shows his facial expression?

shamrock55

NIMAN wrote: »

HOw can Danny Murphy say that its understandble that Sturridge and Sterling tired, as 'they are young'.

Surely young players shouldn't tire as much as the likes of Pirlo?

Pirlo is street smart, he doesnt run around like a headless chickin, it is 32degrees after all

Lennonist

shamrock55 wrote: »

I can honestly see rooney being dropped for next game, gerrard however will never be dropped

Neither will happen, and neither should happen, if you were picking an England team.

Pdoghue

Dunphy on his hobby horse now about Terry.

Dapics

And this BBC panel is apparently the Dream Team.

LightningBlue

Johnson was on the penalty spot for Balotelli's goal... Classic Glen.

Skylinehead

Oh look, it's Jesus. And some statue thing.

ricero

Dunphy is wet for terry

Gbear

Al_Coholic wrote: »

never ever write the italians off in tournament football,always a crisis pre tournament but they always seem to do well in major finals.

Except the last World Cup, where they finished last in their group and drew with New Zealand.

The_Kew_Tour

If Pirlo asked me to marry him, I would say Yes.

Dempsey

Anyone have the stats for ground covered by players in this game?

dfx-

Blay wrote: »

He was lucky with the Pirlo free, completely misjudged it. You'd think he'd have learned not to assume anything with Pirlo especially after he made a show of him with that penalty a few years ago:pac:

The free was a bit like the penalty..a lot more subtlety to it than Hart imagined.

DerekDGoldfish

Blay wrote: »

If they ever clone footballers Pirlo should be first in line, future generations deserve to see him play:pac:

He will still be playing, Pirlo doesn't age, Pirlo doesn't pass through time, time passes through him.

Hotblack Desiato

Dunphy, get off the stage your time is up. John Terry, really???

Get rid of the lot of them RTE and put on the Second Captains lads who actually know something about football post 1970.

kryogen

Terry is the best central defender in the Premier League is he Eamon? The best in England eh?

Gbear

LightningBlue wrote: »

Johnson was on the penalty spot for Balotelli's goal... Classic Glen.

If he hadn't dropped into mark the player in the centre of the box and he'd got the ball and scored people would be moaning about that too.

It was an excellent cross to take Cahill out of the equation without it sailing over Balotelli's head.

Dapics

The fact that Pirlo's game does not require speed whatsoever leads me to believe we will see the maestro for a while yet.

Ulysses Gaze

I still find it absolutely baffling that Milan let Pirlo leave on a free.

tupac_healy

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

The criticism of Gerrard is OTT. His job is to sit deep, he doesn't have the same role that he used to because the legs aren't there. He didn't play great but you couldn't take him off for anyone other than maybe Lampard or else you would have completely killed the midfield balance. Wilshere or Lallana for Gerrard would have suicide for example.

Doesn't seem to bother Pirlo..... Does the same job, only miles and miles better

Dempsey

Shoulder to Shoulder!

GreNoLi

Humidity is rising in the studio, never a peno.

NIMAN

Dapics wrote: »

The fact that Pirlo's game does not require speed whatsoever leads me to believe we will see the maestro for a while yet.

Well Juve gave him a 2yr deal, til he's 37

Lennonist

What's up with Brady. thought he'd with Italy?

kryogen

I'm with Giles on this one, Gerrard wasn't getting near the ball and it would have been pretty soft

shamrock55

The lads on rte agree its a pen against gerrard(and it was) boys on bbc say no, isnt football gas:D8