Can't watch England play

[tim123]

If it was Microsoft rather than Sky, the EU would be fining them £1 million a day

That's the whole bloody point isn't it.

No-one NEEDS to watch football.

tim

[Lucifer Box]

I hear they are good at writing auto-biographies...

No, they are good at putting their names on biographies and pretending they were self-penned.

[AtW]

I hear they are good at writing auto-biographies...

[BoredBloke]

I'd say that there are too many players out there who

1 - didn't know the system.

2 - didn't know each other.

Actually for that game I might have picked Beckham and put him on the bench. Hoping that the kick up the @rse he had taken by being dropped from his lofty position, might have done something.

But by the same token I would not have started Crouch (Timmy - minus the wheelchair) I think Defoe and Rooney would be a much better option up front along the lines of Owen and Rooney. Crouch may have scored a lot of goals recently for England, but the opposition was not that great!

[wendigo100]

Oh god - the "bring back Beckham" campaign has started on the radio!

[wendigo100]

Tony, did it look to you as if our players had not been introduced?

They were sort of standing around in the final third, like kids in a playground game at school, wondering what the bloke with the ball is going to do with it.

[BoredBloke]

Isn't it amazing - only 5 months ago we were the best team in the world with a real chance of landing the big one. Now we struggle against each and everybody.

Nice to see Neville finally get on the score sheet though. Shame it was at our end and not theirs

[Mr Crosby]

Nice to slip back into our old ways, were tulip and we know we are....

[spongebob]

Look on the bright side. England were pretty dire. Normal service is resumed.

[mcquiggd]

If it was Microsoft rather than Sky, the EU would be fining them £1 million a day - 'Bundling Sports channels with News channels? Anti competitive. Everyone should have acess to Skys revenue stream.'

Depends if your political agenda considers the company a monopoly, and whether or not you follow the EU rules due to national interests.

Ailitalia will soon be helped out by illegal government grants, and so will Airbus via EADS.

If we tried it with what's left of our industry, the French would trying to nuke us.

[Lambros]

I think England needs to get Beckam back. And the bloody Welsh beat Cyprus.

[AtW]

oh dear - own goal?

[darmstadt]

It's live on German Eurosport but you ain't missing anything. I can see a possible gubbing for England

[AtW]

It should be illegal to have exclusive agreements of the kind that Sky gets: exclusivity is the same as monopoly. Clubs will get less money, which is a good excuse to cut footballer salaries - nobody died from hunder whilst even on £10k per week.

[Troll]

A national disgrace the England footie matches are not on terrestrial..BBC has Ukraine versus some third world country...how the feck can they sell national treasures like this to Murdoch???