Spainish Perfection??

[Pike B]

Anyone who watched this game last night, I hope you feel like I do. I watched our boys grind out a result against the Georgians, then flicked over to an exhibition in the art of the Beautiful game.
Ole's every time they went over 5 passes(which was a lot), movement of position sublime, passing accuracy top class.
This is an incredible football team. And I for one hope they win the World Cup next year.
They made England look ridiculous. It was painful to watch at times. Premier League?? Your having a laugh....

P.s apologies for the mispelt title.. Spanish Perfection!!

[Lev Yashin]

Anyone who watched this game last night, I hope you feel like I do. I watched our boys grind out a result against the Georgians, then flicked over to an exhibition in the art of the Beautiful game.
Ole's every time they went over 5 passes(which was a lot), movement of position sublime, passing accuracy top class.
This is an incredible football team. And I for one hope they win the World Cup next year.
They made England look ridiculous. It was painful to watch at times. Premier League?? Your having a laugh....

P.s apologies for the mispelt title.. Spanish Perfection!!

well the best part for me was seeing torres stroll off with out picking up a knock...thank god!!

[Pike B]

well the best part for me was seeing torres stroll off with out picking up a knock...thank god!!

Now you said it!!
3 times in a row would have been cruel..

[osgood was good]

Anyone who watched this game last night, I hope you feel like I do. I watched our boys grind out a result against the Georgians, then flicked over to an exhibition in the art of the Beautiful game.
Ole's every time they went over 5 passes(which was a lot), movement of position sublime, passing accuracy top class.
This is an incredible football team. And I for one hope they win the World Cup next year.
They made England look ridiculous. It was painful to watch at times. Premier League?? Your having a laugh....

P.s apologies for the mispelt title.. Spanish Perfection!!

Yeah , have to agree they were just so organised and knew what they were doing .
Slick passing, moving the ball quickly and streets ahead of England .
Makes you realise how far England are behind .

[stojkovic]

Spain had four central midfielders on the pitch for most of the game.

And Gerrard and Lampard cant play in the same team !

[Pike B]

Spain had four central midfielders on the pitch for most of the game.

And Gerrard and Lampard cant play in the same team !

Great point. Goes to show you what can be done when your class.
And they still have Fabregas to return!! What a team!!

[old git]

Yeah , have to agree they were just so organised and knew what they were doing .
Slick passing, moving the ball quickly and streets ahead of England .
Makes you realise how far England are behind .

more feckin worried as you realise how very far ireland are behind

[Pike B]

more feckin worried as you realise how very far ireland are behind

Very good point old git.
See you in Shannon Sunday??
Weather looks good..

[old git]

Very good point old git.
See you in Shannon Sunday??
Weather looks good..

might have to give your match a miss .. only realised
another green & white hoops playing another rangers in glasgow sunday 12.3opm live on setanta... but hopefully both rangers get stuffed

[Pike B]

might have to give your match a miss .. only realised
another green & white hoops playing another rangers in glasgow sunday 12.3opm live on setanta... but hopefully both rangers get stuffed

I'd drink to that!!

[Pike B]

Anyway, back to Spain.
Just had an intresting chat with an Irish and a Nigerian workmate here. We spoke about Wenger and his philosophy and how he wants to play the game in the right manner like Spain do.
We all concluded that the British and Irish way of playing the game was to be frank out of touch and old fashioned and that the only way forward was to do as the Spaniards do and pass pass pass.
In my opinion, as long as Spain,Portugal Argentina and Brazil continue to play this way, England cannot and will not succeed at any major tournament.

Also the Premiership is not as good as La Liga, as even lowly Mallorca and Betis still play a very attractive technical game of football.
My Irish colleague(A Man Utd Fan) went as far as to say 'If United played in La Liga, they'd struggle to finish in the top 4'..

I agree.

[bennocelt]

Anyway, back to Spain.
Just had an intresting chat with an Irish and a Nigerian workmate here. We spoke about Wenger and his philosophy and how he wants to play the game in the right manner like Spain do.
We all concluded that the British and Irish way of playing the game was to be frank out of touch and old fashioned and that the only way forward was to do as the Spaniards do and pass pass pass.
In my opinion, as long as Spain,Portugal Argentina and Brazil continue to play this way, England cannot and will not succeed at any major tournament.

Also the Premiership is not as good as La Liga, as even lowly Mallorca and Betis still play a very attractive technical game of football.
My Irish colleague(A Man Utd Fan) went as far as to say 'If United played in La Liga, they'd struggle to finish in the top 4'..

I agree.

the only problem with that is not all teams can "pass,pass, pass" - re O Shea et al

and didnt manure utd witn the CL? Dont spanish teams enter that comp as well
(but ur right in saying apart from the top 4/5 the EPL is dire!)

[Pike B]

the only problem with that is not all teams can "pass,pass, pass" - re O Shea et al

and didnt manure utd witn the CL? Dont spanish teams enter that comp as well
(but ur right in saying apart from the top 4/5 the EPL is dire!)

Well the point was made by someone else about Man Utd, but he reckons and again I agree, that in a league season, against technically solid sides instead of your Boltons, Boros and Stoke Citys, United wouldn't have it all their own way and therefore not excel.

[old git]

Well the point was made by someone else about Man Utd, but he reckons and again I agree, that in a league season, against technically solid sides instead of your Boltons, Boros and Stoke Citys, United wouldn't have it all their own way and therefore not excel.

would have to disagree here utd play a good passing game
and to think if they were playing so called better passing teams week in week out surely this would only improve their game and make them even better... but is the sign of a great team being able to adapt to different playing styles and to keep winning ... lets be honest if madrid / barcelona were playing boltons / stoke / boros etc in a league basis i'd fancy them to struggle or even to get beat the odd time

[Pike B]

would have to disagree here utd play a good passing game
and to think if they were playing so called better passing teams week in week out surely this would only improve their game and make them even better... but is the sign of a great team being able to adapt to different playing styles and to keep winning ... lets be honest if madrid / barcelona were playing boltons / stoke / boros etc in a league basis i'd fancy them to struggle or even to get beat the odd time

Maybe..

[Cymro]

I don't agree that the Premiership is of a worse standard than La Liga, in fact in terms of strength in depth it is probably slightly better. However, the football is generally more enjoyable to watch in the latter. Thankfully at Swansea we have Roberto Martinez as manager and a load of ex-Liga players in the squad (Andrea Orlandi played in Barcelona's youth team with Messi, for instance) so we get the best of both worlds.

[old git]

I don't agree that the Premiership is of a worse standard than La Liga, in fact in terms of strength in depth it is probably slightly better. However, the football is generally more enjoyable to watch in the latter. Thankfully at Swansea we have Roberto Martinez as manager and a load of ex-Liga players in the squad (Andrea Orlandi played in Barcelona's youth team with Messi, for instance) so we get the best of both worlds.

not the best last night lost 2-0 to watford

[Pike B]

I don't agree that the Premiership is of a worse standard than La Liga, in fact in terms of strength in depth it is probably slightly better. However, the football is generally more enjoyable to watch in the latter. Thankfully at Swansea we have Roberto Martinez as manager and a load of ex-Liga players in the squad (Andrea Orlandi played in Barcelona's youth team with Messi, for instance) so we get the best of both worlds.

Watched them Saturday play Fulham off the park. I'd pay to see this Swansea team. They're excellent. And very Spanish..

[Cymro]

not the best last night lost 2-0 to watford

mumble mumble......lists excuses for defeat, its a midweek away game, Watford have a sh*t pitch, we let them win cos we felt sorry for them etc......mumble......

[old git]

mumble mumble......lists excuses for defeat, its a midweek away game, Watford have a sh*t pitch, we let them win cos we felt sorry for them etc......mumble......

forgot bad ref mumble ... bad weather mumble .. in fairness watch match against fulham and thought ye were excellent... and fair play to manager & players for sticking to trying to play good football