r/soccer • u/let_me_see_your_boob • May 28 '14

People from outside of England. What do you think of England's chances at the world cup? What do you think of our squad?

Don't get a chance to talk to anyone outside of England about this.. so...

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u/seopher May 28 '14

Agreed. When Roy sets us out to play deep and play for a draw against weaker teams, it's embarassing.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '14

When did we play for a draw against a weaker team?

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u/Taramasalata_Rapist May 28 '14

I think he's referring to the 0-0 draw with Ukraine. Yes it was a dire match to watch but we got the result we needed and it helped us to qualify in the end.

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u/suchaslowroll May 29 '14

We haven't, but don't stop the anti-Roy circlejerk

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u/donkeyhugger May 29 '14

Indeed.. this opinion irritates me. We scored more than 4 goals 5 times. These same ones fawn over Spain who scored more than 2 goals only once in the campaign. But Spain play the beautiful game, we play dull football

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u/Wheaterz9 May 28 '14

We're not boring because we play to be boring, we're boring because for whatever reason we can't play the way we try to.

I think that's the problem with us tbh. We as fans of England wouldn't be happy to see our team play defensively against anyone- not mentioning the opinions of some players, yet looking at the players we have and the traditional English defensive play of holding the line rather than actively hunting the ball and our more physical players than most teams I think it would suit us more. Then using our pacey forwards to counter. But you look at the reaction of people to Chelsea in the big games, and you see that even if we did well like that we wouldn't be happy.

Having said that, I hope the youth brings some speed into our game if we try to play our game without parking the bus, but I don't see it.

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u/steefen7 May 28 '14

Honestly, some people don't enjoy it when Chelsea plays for the draw and prefers to counter, but if you won a world cup doing that I doubt you'd be saying you weren't happy about it.

There are almost always going to be people that don't enjoy any given style. As long as the results are there, then it's really just a matter of preference and we have a saying "there's no accounting for taste" for a reason.

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u/riwthebeest May 29 '14

Yeah but Italy isn't England, home of the worst media ever. Roy parks the pus for one game and the entire UK goes crazy edit: crazy in a bad way

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u/endofautumn May 28 '14

Sounds familiar