The Road To Germany 2024

[Templeton Peck]

Yep, wasn't allowed to by his club, plus the (much spoken about) 'club divide' within England camps.
Could say the same re Scholes, Lampard and a few others..

Most of that lot didn't really. Great v Latvia or Estonia but quiet at tournaments.

 

[Wolftone]

Scholes was shite for England from around mid-2001 and it wasn't the 'out of position' myth either.

Yep, I genuinely believe there was an instruction from the clubs to 'go through the motions' when on international duty.

 

[ROVERT47]

Ferguson hated his players playing for their respective Countries, not sure about his Scottish players though.

 

[Del Woppio]

Bellingham is basically a cheat code. Absolutely ridiculous footballer, he's basically the perfect midfielder

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Ferguson hated his players playing for their respective Countries, not sure about his Scottish players though.

Didn't have many. He fell out with Strachan regardless, Brian McClair oddly didn't play much for Scotland and his fat lipstick wearing offspring never got picked as he was shit.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

Great result...but....
My only worry is we now get months of that "it's coming home" bollocks.

 

[Kenny]

Great result...but....
My only worry is we now get months of that "it's coming home" bollocks.

We can ask UEFA to disqualify us for it as it started yesterday (roughly around 0.1 seconds after Kane scored his 2nd last night)

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

We can ask UEFA to disqualify us for it as it started yesterday (roughly around 0.1 seconds after Kane scored his 2nd last night)

Oh ffs ☹

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Just spotted a stat that our home qualifying record since we lost to Croatia in 2007 under McClaren is P35 W31 D4 L0

 

[jd1981]

Just spotted a stat that our home qualifying record since we lost to Croatia in 2007 under McClaren is P35 W31 D4 L0

I think we’ve only lost 2 qualifiers since then and one was a dead rubber in Ukraine, the other v Czechia in 2019 when we were as good as qualified.

 

[leedswolf]

BREAKING: The Euro 2024 qualifier between Belgium and Sweden declared abandoned at half-time will not be replayed, with a 1-1 result confirmed as final.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

That's unusual isn't it?

 

[jd1981]

That's unusual isn't it?

Belgium are through and Sweden can’t qualify, all they’d be playing for is ranking points and what pot Belgium might be in for next summer.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Belgium are through and Sweden can’t qualify, all they’d be playing for is ranking points and what pot Belgium might be in for next summer.

Fair enough, a common sense approach then.

 

[Kenny]

Fair enough, a common sense approach then.

/a bugger to rearrange without pissing off someone

 

[jd1981]

Fair enough, a common sense approach then.

Definitely

 

[jd1981]

Well UEFA have created the absurd scenario where ROI need to lose in the Netherlands to qualify for the play offs. To add to the headache Netherlands are level with Greece on points. Absolutely makes a mockery of sporting integrity. ROI well with in their rights to lose on purpose and blame the format. Reality is ROI would probably lose anyway.
To add to the complete farce ROI qualifying for the a euros via the back door is just ridiculous considering how bad they’ve been over the last 2 years.
Something UEFA need to look at, the idea of the nations league is good as it does away with nothing friendly matches, but there needs to be a cut off on its back door route ie if you coming lower than 3rd in your normal qualifying group you ain’t getting in.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It's very very unlikely Ireland have any pathway to qualification, they need far too many other teams to go through automatically.

 

[Donegal Wolf]

It's very very unlikely Ireland have any pathway to qualification, they need far too many other teams to go through automatically.

Yes nothing story,
heard during week was calculated at less then 1% For all results to go the right way

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

It's very very unlikely Ireland have any pathway to qualification, they need far too many other teams to go through automatically.

True, but it is in their best interests to lose, which can never be right.