Fair play to Hodgson
Fair play to Hodgson
I agree. Fair play to Hodgson. Just to clarify, I've not remotely suggested he or anyone who points out the chanting is over-reacting. There's a big difference between Hodgson condemning the chanting due to its potentially offensive nature to Irish people generally (he's right to do so) and the Independent exploiting it to spread alarm with vague claims of "fears growing" as a result. Fears of what are growing exactly? I can only assume they were hinting at fears of trouble or violence, as they don't go into any great detail. I don't envisage there to be any trouble. There was no trouble at the Wembley meeting, security will be tight and there was no trouble when England played Scotland recently either. I think the FA have worked hard to stamp out the active and hardcore hooligan element that followed England.
The Indy are puffing up a pretty small beer story.Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
I agree, there's little likelihood of a riot. The 'fear' is more of embarrassment. The English tab media know that some of their fans will try to provoke, as they did in Scotland and Italy. So they'll encourage them, and at the same time present it as anti-IRA England fans respond to pro-IRA FAI chief, or similar :(
Those Polish neo-nazis were scary. Then I woke up.
The Indo is little more than a tabloid rag masquerading as a newspaper. They were the only source bleating about hooligan trouble at the Poland game - a story so short they had to link it to English hooligans and even the Landsdowne riot. If you were ever in doubt, their coverage of this story compared with RTE and the Irish Times would tell you how low they'll stoop to scaremonger. (In fairness, this would have been a tough editorial call - should they have a go at the public service worker, and keep up their proud DOB-inspired tradition, or go for the scumbag?)
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-31115506.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0403/691...ter-car-theft/
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime...ital-1.2163386
Store St/Railway Road?
Was he driving to the cop shop or what? Madness.
But yeah, Info is a rag and a half.
Hopefully this will learn them...
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-31219670.html
Any association whose supporters are found guilty of such behaviour faces sanctions that range from a fine of £20,000 all the way up to disqualification from a competition.
Many of the 2,000 England fans in Turin in March sang the anti-IRA chants during their 1-1 draw with Italy, a particular concern with England playing in Dublin on June 7 for the first time since a Lansdowne Road friendly was abandoned following a riot organised by right-wing England fans here in 1995.
That sounds like an insanely sensationalist headline. What regulation/initiative are they referring to?Quote:
Originally Posted by Independent.ie
England squad announced: http://www.thefa.com/news/england/20...eland-slovenia
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Goalkeepers
Robert Green (Queens Park Rangers), Joe Hart (Manchester City), Tom Heaton (Burnley)
Defenders
Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Southampton), Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Phil Jones (Manchester United), Chris Smalling (Manchester United)
Midfielders
Ross Barkley (Everton), Fabian Delph (Aston Villa), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), Ryan Mason (Tottenham Hotspur), James Milner (Manchester City), Raheem Sterling (Liverpool), Andros Townsend (Tottenham Hotspur), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Jack Wilshere (Arsenal)
Forwards
Charlie Austin (Queens Park Rangers), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Danny Welbeck (Arsenal)
No Grealish?
Sorry, I'll give myself a voluntary ban.
Couple of unexpected omissions there. Danny Rose, Michael Carrick and Stewart Downing would probably have expected a place in the squad with a couple of players missing through injury and under-21 squad.
Carrick is injured himself.
i don't know what other people think but i'd prefer we didn't have this game. because it's england and because of what happened the last time the came over there's a bit more to it than a normal friendly. it's a distraction we could do without. i sort of feel there's an element that would place this above the scotland game in importance - i hope i'm wrong.
Anyone who places this game above the Scotland game I wouldn't consider them a fan. I agree with being a distraction, I'd prefer if we were having a warm up against someone with a lesser reputation
Yeah it's a strange one. Maybe Scotland did it the right way by having it the other way around. That said, maybe a friendly match with an automatic intensity is the perfect preparation for the Scotland game, especially given the usual going through the motions feel to games this time of year. Obviously anybody with the slightest appreciation for the bigger picture will realise the Scotland game absolutely dwarfs it in terms of importance and the players and management certainly will, which is all that matters really.
Some people's priorities are utterly warped.Quote:
Originally Posted by zero
It's the NI training match for which I'm on the edge of my seat!
Josh 'Captain Caveman' Magennis warms up for the fray:Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
"Qatar? The Free State? Romania? All on the list, but first I have to beat up my team-mates!"
http://cdn1.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/s...9629665_I1.JPG
don't agree. many of our players wont have kicked a ball in weeks before the two upcoming matches. in that case there is no point playing a half paced friendly that would inevitably happen against most of the countries willing to play us. the fact that its England we are playing might make it a bit more competitive and therefore more useful with Scotland the week afterQuote:
Originally Posted by IsMiseSean
I reckon the preparation is about right. The NI game is a good idea for both teams too.
Came across this on Twitter; the team before the England game in '88:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFjqaHdWMAAUWAi.jpg
You know on second thoughts you might be right. I hope though we don't pick up any injuries in a frantic game against England.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
Is it possible for someone to be suspended for the Scotland game if he got sent off against England?
I'm not talking about 2 yellows etc. I mean something crazy like a punch/stamp
From the article aboveQuote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Huh?Quote:
catholic selection tastes
ExactlyQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
however it's not about grooming children, but some other meaning which I have never come across before, in this context catholic = progressive.
Hodgson selected "three potential new caps to add to 29 awarded to date, confirmed his catholic selection tastes."
If it helps Adam I'm as confused as you. :watermelon2:
I'd say he was deliberately going for the confusion there.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
In light of Hodgson having awarded first caps to 29 players and having called up another three potential debutants for this squad, I think it makes sense within the small-'c' definition of the word which seems to pertain to a sense of broad inclusivity (although that's not a definition with which I've been all that familiar either):
I thought it was only us who had Catholic selection tastes!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dictionary.com
Now you know better Danny,
If ever a woman says to you that she has catholic tastes, don't be put off.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...ement-measures
English FA on high alert for potential crowd trouble.
The assistant Chief Constable Mark Roberts said the problem had been so pronounced during England’s games in Italy, Scotland, Estonia and Switzerland that “additional enforcement measures” were being re-introduced, for the first time in four years, before the match in Dublin on 7 June.
Will be interesting to see what sort of crowd turns up for this and whether MON will start with the team he intends to start against Scotland. Any idea how many tickets were allocated to England?
3k it said and 2k hoping to pick up on the day.
US scores thrice to complete comeback and beat Netherlands 4-3. You fine chaps must be stunned. What do people refer to them as? "The Dutch", "Netherlands", or "Holland"? Why do they have so many names? And who ratted out the Frank family? That was mean.
The Guardian listed our 'probable' team as:
Given
Coleman
O'Shea
Wilson
Ward
Walters
Whelan
McCarthy
McGeady
Murphy
Long
I hope they're wrong!
Why?
And we are gonna be mangled by this lot.
:(
Looks a standard 4-4-2 with very little creativity. I'd prefer Brady left back, Walters somewhere other than the wing and Westwood in goals. I've kind of accepted the latter will actually happen though.
Just doing a cursory search, I think it will be only the 2nd time in history a team starts 4 players who's last name begins with the letter W.
Ward is doubtful for the England match according to the latest reports.
Controversy over shadowing meeting between England and Ireland, say many.
http://www.espnfc.us/blog/espn-fc-un...f-field-issues
Eyes will be firmly fixed on the players during the anthems to see if anyone will do a Warren Barton.