England crushed like the bug it is!!

[d000hg]

Switching tenses is just as bad.

Switching tense is pretty fundamental to language. It always has been. I expect it always will be.

If you don't think this is common, look at Revelation 4:8 which uses past, present and future in a single sentence.

Did you manage to understand that OK? Are you here on an ICT visa?

[EternalOptimist]

English footy has had its heyday. I remember the 70's and 80's. ten pints outside goodison then chasing the woolly backs all the way back to Lime street. Wanna meet my mate stanley ?
yep, they were the good old days

I watched the match once as well. we were rubbish

[darmstadt]

England 1 - Uruguay 2. Roy Hodgson GBP3.84m per year
Uruguay 1 - Costa Rica 3. Niko Kovac GBP160,000 per year

Its all business...maybe a bit of good old patriotism might help (you only need to look at how the majority of other countries teams sing their national anthem compared to the England team....)

[Unix]

Switching tense is pretty fundamental to language. It always has been. I expect it always will be.

If you don't think this is common, look at Revelation 4:8 which uses past, present and future in a single sentence.

Did you manage to understand that OK? Are you here on an ICT visa?

Those are referring to two completely different questions.

Ronaldo currently plays for Man Utd, he left the club 3 season ago. <-- doesn't make sense

See its fine to switch tense when it makes sense.

Anyway quoting bible scripture tells me all I need to know. Red flag of a moron.

[TheBigD]

England 1 - Uruguay 2. Roy Hodgson GBP3.84m per year
Uruguay 1 - Costa Rica 3. Niko Kovac GBP160,000 per year

Its all business...maybe a bit of good old patriotism might help (you only need to look at how the majority of other countries teams sing their national anthem compared to the England team....)

So how you sing a song determines how patriotic you are? Someone should of told Spain 4 years ago...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVIlZzcWkec

[suityou01]

Two Tour de France victories in two years, a few Ashes series until the Aussies kindly brought us back to reality last winter, a winning Lions tour, 29 Olympic gold medals and 36 silver/bronzes and the Wimbledon men's champion.

The problem lies with England's footballers, not with the rest of Britain's sportspeople. I can't comment on the footie players of the other UK nations; they seem to punch above their weight, sometimes.

I'm going to be very un-PC about this, but as I see it the problem with English/British football is a loser culture. Most of the gifted and best prepared young athletes in Britain go to private schools where they get a lot of sporting opportunities and eventually have to choose their sport (been there myself, was pretty useful at footie and rugby and had to choose between the two at 15). Plenty of them could be good footballers; the physical and neurological attributes required are not different to other ball games. They probably won't choose football because, firstly, they want to win and other sports give them a real chance of winning something big on the world stage (success breeds success), and secondly, nice middle class kids with nice middle class accents don't want to have their heads kicked in by Kev and Baz from the local sink estate as they walk home from the footie club. They'd rather go to the rugby, athletics, cricket, tennis or cycling club and be treated like human beings. So football might attract large numbers, but it doesn't attract enough of the best.

Add to that the fact that other international sports teams and sportspeople play meaningful, high pressure tournaments against the best teams in the world year in year out instead of pathetic friendlies or qualifying games against the part-timers from San Marino or the Faroe Islands.

So you can only get the best from nice middle class kids with middle class accents?

[d000hg]

Ronaldo currently plays for Man Utd, he left the club 3 season ago. <-- doesn't make sense

It's a good job I didn't say that then. Again, read what I actually wrote.

Anyway quoting bible scripture tells me all I need to know. Red flag of a moron.

It's the single most widely studied ancient document of all time. And I didn't quote it - yet again you show inability to read.

I think you get thicker with each incarnation, like a rubbish Dr. Who.

[Gym beast]

It doesn't breed failure in other sports.

Like fck it doesn't. But I'm not talking JUST about sports; we have no prestige or pride left (and for good reason).


The only reason continentals learn English is because an Empire we lost a long time ago. Our hooligans don't even rampage around the stadia of Europe any longer. We've gone from the extreme of stiff upper lips, to those now that makes Jodie Marsh's labia look like a repointed corner of the Sphinx.


Now your average young Englishman dreams of nothing more glorious than a life sipping Chardonnay while listening to Coldplay's newest album hoping 10stone Chris Martin can put a brand new spin on his legions of Trespass-wearing-fans hitherto unexternalised melancholy, or reading '50-Shades-of-Sh1t' in a vain attempt to connect to their femininity.


About our greatest achievement is a gherkin-shaped building. Sums us up beautifully.


Fck England!!

[Mich the Tester]

So you can only get the best from nice middle class kids with middle class accents?

Oh dear, another one who's misunderstood it.

[Mich the Tester]

Like fck it doesn't. But I'm not talking JUST about sports; we have no prestige or pride left (and for good reason...
Fck England!!

Very poetic bulltulip there.