Does anybody really believe that John Terry was acting unilaterally when he spoke out yesterday? The guy can be a pillock but I don't think he is that stupid. Lampard admits that 9 players had a chat over a beer after the Algeria game, but then denied this represented a rebellion. Cobblers.
Terry heard what was said and then spoke out, I reckon with the encouragement of others. But when Capello came down hard, the rest then scurried to their bolt holes. "Eeeee, it wasn't me," whined Gerrard.
"Anything you say boss, I'm just happy eating donuts," mumbled Fat Frank.
"I just hate the bastard fans," Rooney declared.
"Eeee I don't care what happens as long as I'm picked because that was the deal when I agreed to come out of retirement," squeaked Carragher.
"We hate him cos he shagged our mate's ex," said Bridge and Tweedledum-Phillips in perfect harmony.
So Terry suddenly found himself isolated, with the whole team pointing at him saying, "He's Spartacus, not us!"
Well if we go out on Wednesday after another abject performance against Slovenia, I know who I will hold responsible, and it won't be Terry; it will be the gutless bastards who weren't prepared to put the country ahead of their own careers. If Capello sticks with 4-4-2 and we fail to win, then everyone of them who whined behind Capello's back but were too scared to do it to his face, will be culpable in my book. Nerves? Bollocks. Bad tactics and a disaffected bunch of players? Almost certainly.
If we crash out, watch Cameron appoint Capello to deal with the public sector workers' strikes that will pepper a winter of discontent. "It eez eazy. You say it iz a bad moment and then you take out your cock and piss on the strikers' leader."
indeed they are cowards. At least the french whined together. Just goes to show who's the REAL captain in our team, you can see Terry ordering Gerrard around, and certainly not the other way round. What's annoyed me is the way Lampard and co would give us the old bollocks about Capello and his fantastic system, yet they clearly don't fit into it and don't seem to be venting any frustration when they perform like shite. Rooney and Lamprd HAVE to be dropped if Capello is serious about playing in-form players, Heskey also. will he? hell to the mother.....
ReplyDelete...I think he is that stupid HF!
ReplyDeleteCome on mate, just admit you called it wrong. There is no factionalism or rebelliousness. Not right now anyway. Bloody stubborn aren't you? In life, never unrelentingly side with or back anyone who has no morals (Terry), they will let you down.
It's amazing the way Lineker and Shearer were talking about disaffection in the camp BEFORE Terry spoke out then Stani. Where did they get that idea from? Somehow, I don't see either as bosum buddies with Terry.
ReplyDeleteIf they were, then they were speculating HF. If you're honest, there was nothing to suggest this disaffection was present. And who was it amongst anyway.
ReplyDeleteI think it's just a simple case of them being away in a tournament and not being disciplined enough to go without their usual luxuries. They seem to me like a Test side on the other side of the world having played a 5 match ODI series and are now in the last game of a 5 match Test series with the series already wrapped up by the home side. They need to sort themselves out. It's boring, who cares. They need to keep their eyes on the prize. There was all the hoohaa about going to the world cup, but now they are there, they're taking it for granted.
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ReplyDeleteyes he is that stupid. To my mind the problem is simple; the players can't come to terms with the fact, in my opinion, that they payed like drains. capello is the most successful or at least one of the most successful managers ever in football. The qualifying campaign was well an unqualified success.. all the alternative formations that are being vauted have failed in friendlies in the last two years.. the Gerrad- Rooney up front partnership lasted a single half against France- Joe Cole has only started 11 England matches in his career. of course we want and hope he'll provide the answer but the stats suggest not. He's a great impact player but not one to pin the hopes of teht eam he's a maverick. I'd like to see him on at some point but really; I was with you in shitbaggingthe'In Zola We Trust' mob last season but Capello has nothing to prove. If anything it is not a cse of the other players losing their bottle is it is that they were rightly outraged that Terry took a private conversation and blew it into a public rebellion without telling them -whatever i thought about Capello I'd have been blazing mad if someone took it upon themselves to speak on my behalf without permission. Reading the runes in today's papers it seems that while there are no outright cliques at war - they don't really like each other that much certainly not enough to enjoy five or six weeks in each others company ..hence the collapse of morale when the going got tough.
What on earth is that image you have used?
ReplyDeleteThere was no rebellion, just some concerned players that have an opinion - there's a big difference. As usual, it's all been blown massively out of proportion by the media and blogs like this.
ReplyDeleteHaving watched Terry's full press conference, it certainly doesn't appear that his words were premeditated. He was just answering questions from the press and speaking from the heart. Most of the other players know better but lets be honest, JT's hardly the sharpest is he?
Lineker, Shearer, the BBC and the rest of the media are doing what they're paid to do - create stories and debate. This was a perfect opportunity.
It's a non story - barring 3 positions (second striker, left mid and second CB) the outfield team pretty much picks itself and should have more than enough quality to have beaten both the USA and Algeria in whatever system they're given by Capello.
They lack passion and belief - not strategy or formation. The players are the only ones than can add the passion and agression needed when they cross the white line. The rest is all a smoke screen.
Art, 1217, art!
ReplyDeleteWill it be a non story if Terry is dropped Pablo?
ReplyDeleteIf JT is dropped then I'll happily put my hands up and admit I'm wrong.
ReplyDeleteBut even if it was an attempted rebellion (which there wasn't!), do you really believe that Capello would drop JT for such an important game just to make a point? Not a chance, even he's not that stubborn.
By the way HF, do you still think we'll win the World Cup?
that isn't art, it's a very naughty picture.
ReplyDeleteIt's Art. It's in the New York Met!
ReplyDeletePablo, I said before it all kicked off that Dawson would score the winning goal in the Final. Well, if Terry is dropped, King is injured, Carragher is useless...
Actually Carragher is banned, I think you'll find it's Upson that's useless...
ReplyDelete:o)
Carragher is banned because he is crap. Can't keep up so has to foul.
ReplyDeleteHe is stupid, stupid to think that one conversation and gripe session in a bar constitutes an organized opposition, and that he would be the leader. Idiot.
ReplyDeleteOr, alternatively, it was the last in a series of meetings and Terry was urged to speaak up. Then the others ran scared when Capello went on the attack.
ReplyDeleteterry may be a plonker sometimes but he isn't a coward -- the real problem with England is two fold
ReplyDelete1 capello's lack of tactics other than 442 and his playing to the grandstand
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2 steve gerrard. If you want to know why Lampard and Ash Cole never play for england as they do for Chelsea its because they don't trust gerrard (rightly) to carry out his defensive responsabilities because he simply refuses to do it. They can't get forward because he won't cover for them. He already cost Baines a place on the plane doing precisely that.
The whole team is constructed around the fact that Gerrard will not accept his responsability to defend just as liverpool's is. Hasn't done liverpool any good won't do england any good either.
England's best game in qualifiers was against Croatia who wasn't playing? Steve Gerrard.
Apparently he spent the entire evening folowing Terry's press conference twitting his press mates his version - now that's how to build team morale - get rid of the bloke and England will play really well.