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Your Views On International Football

By Freesolo, in General Football and Sport

International Football Views  

114 members have voted

  1. 1. Do you feel the same about your home nation in International Football as you always have?

    • Yes I still love watching my home nation do well and have a lot of passion for them
      18
    • No I don't really care as much about my home nation like i used too
      25
    • I am somewhere in the middle International football isn't what it used to be but i like to see my home nation do well
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Bert

Bert

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Find it hard to get excited for friendlies and qualifiers especially against the minnows where it's a formality. I will always watch any england game that's on and I'm quite patriotic towards the country.

When it's a major tournament I find myself getting really excited, celebrate goals with passion.

ScouseFox

ScouseFox

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i think i find that cos a lot of my best mates support different teams (and none are city fans) that england is more important, too. it's the one team/game/goal that we can all go the pub get fvcked for and chuck beer all over the gaff together. 

 

perhaps if all my best mates supported city and we could do that every week it'd be different. bi can go as nuts as i want when city score if im watching in the pub or i can go watch everton and see a few of them getting involved but it's much better when the whole pub is on one side. 

 

not many celebrations match those of england scoring in a world cup, even things like an equaliser in a group game. imagine if we actually won an important game. 

Bert

Bert

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England desperately need to stop recruiting these over the hill dinosaurs to be the gaffer. Hodgson, Redknapp, that must have been ****ing uninspiring.

International managers don't need to buy players, selection is fairly straightforward, more than anything they need to inspire the players to give it absolutely everything.

Give it to a fairly recently retired England international, someone who knows the camp and the scene and the players will relate to as one of their own. A Gary Neville or someone.

Wales revival started under Speedo because the players loved him and grew up loving him.

It's a fair point as such, but our FA need a yes man as manager. They've tried and failed miserably with the foreign managers that were supposed to bring our glory days back.

We need someone the players can relate too. The FA want managers to coach and play to their handbook.

Bert

Bert

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Going to put myself on the line here, but reckon Hodgson best manager we had in ages.

Agree. Shame he had that nutty therapist with him.
SystonFox

SystonFox

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Someone has to use the "I'll be a die hard yob when in France" line on the tinder thread.

#tinderlikegrandad

On topic : watch England games. Enjoy them winning. The issue is everyone can see the problem except for the FA and the yes man Hodgson. Hodgson isn't a bad bloke or a bad manager but he's gotta grow some balls and pick the best team. For years we tried to shoe horn the best eleven single players in and it never worked. Pick Jamie Vardy up top and all will be forgiven

Thracian

Thracian

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I really couldn't give a toss about international football. Generally, it's an exercise in disappointment. I'll be just the same about Leicester if they carry on playing as they did against Spurs. I'm not interested  in Italianate defensive strategies that make a beautiful game boring. I'm interested in goals and the total commitment to scoring as many as we can.     

The Doctor

The Doctor

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Who would people want to replace Hodgson? Me and my manager were discussing this for about 2 hours today and still couldn't really make a cast iron decision. I'm very much in the Hodgson is a dinosaur get him out now camp though.

 

Gordon Strachan. Just take him please.

 

 

 

I stopped caring about international football in general around 2011/12; that humour value from England losing is still there but much in the same reason I'll occasionally look at tumblr - other peoples dramatic tantrums are hilarious to watch, I couldn't tell you who is in the Scotland squad or who they've recently played - I just struggle to see the point, rather watch random international teams with a city player in. I expect I was one of the few cheering on Lithuania in March, just because Stankawhatevericus from the U18s came on.

Grandad.

Grandad.

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So Rooney scores three past us at the weekend and we hurl him abuse. The following weekend we cheer him when he wears an england shirt and scores three past Germany say. Sorry I just can't, it doesn't sit right with me.

I wouldn't never "want" england to lose but I would never cheer players that don't play for LCFC.

lol lol

**** me I've read some shit.

Dan

Dan

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So Rooney scores three past us at the weekend and we hurl him abuse. The following weekend we cheer him when he wears an england shirt and scores three past Germany say. Sorry I just can't, it doesn't sit right with me.

I wouldn't never "want" england to lose but I would never cheer players that don't play for LCFC.

 

The same way that if Rooney scored past us we'd give him shit, but if he joined us in a couple of years we'd celebrate his goals?

 

I don't feel any hatred towards any of our players to be honest, not even Kane. I just don't really feel anything towards them.

Dan

Dan

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Being from Northern Ireland, I'm good with international football. Obviously at the minute we are within touching distance of France but its always been this way for me.

I still remember when we went 28 months without a goal and we scored at home to Norway as a consolation to make it 1-3, we when ballistic and went home happier than the Norway fans, who won 4-1 in the end.

Sometimes being really awful make the good times even better!

 

Just watch San Marino's goal yesterday. They looked as happy the Germany players when they won the World Cup.

Dan

Dan

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i think i find that cos a lot of my best mates support different teams (and none are city fans) that england is more important, too. it's the one team/game/goal that we can all go the pub get fvcked for and chuck beer all over the gaff together. 

 

perhaps if all my best mates supported city and we could do that every week it'd be different. bi can go as nuts as i want when city score if im watching in the pub or i can go watch everton and see a few of them getting involved but it's much better when the whole pub is on one side. 

 

not many celebrations match those of england scoring in a world cup, even things like an equaliser in a group game. imagine if we actually won an important game. 

 

What's it like in Liverpool? I know a Liverpool fan from there and he says he absolutely despises England and a lot there do as well. Reckons he saw even Everton fans singing Suarez' name in the World Cup when they beat us.

Grandad.

Grandad.

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What's it like in Liverpool? I know a Liverpool fan from there and he says he absolutely despises England and a lot there do as well. Reckons he saw even Everton fans singing Suarez' name in the World Cup when they beat us.

My Dad will often say he is Scouse not English, obviously I don't follow suit and he doesn't really like my love of the national side.

Weird.

ScouseFox

ScouseFox

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What's it like in Liverpool? I know a Liverpool fan from there and he says he absolutely despises England and a lot there do as well. Reckons he saw even Everton fans singing Suarez' name in the World Cup when they beat us.

a bit mixed. like grandad says a few think they're "Scouse not English" (gayest saying ever) but I'm pretty sure a lot of them are kids who would be right on the bandwagon if we were actually any good.

as we see from all parts of the country it's easy to pretend to dislike the national side at the moment cos we aren't very good. it'd be a lot harder for these people to pretend they want benteke to do well instead of england if we were playing belgium in the semi finals in a year's time.

J.Lisemore

J.Lisemore

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I definately feel excited and a fan of England when it comes to the World Cup or Euro's, its just the qualifiers and all the pointless friendlies that take the edge off it for me.

 

The frustration with England over recent years is that - we could of done so much better. We've got/had a few decent players, but couldn't/can't turn it on as a team.

Dan

Dan

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The frustration for me is that I don't think we even try to be a brilliant side and why don't we? We appoint and stick by mediocrity, safe bets, conservative football, and then wonder why we never look to challenge the big boys.

 

Someone like Chile for example, a historically smaller side than us, have an attitude that gives them a chance in any game. We don't. We just would not beat Spain in an international tournament. We haven't got the character.

Grandad.

Grandad.

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Please tell me you do understand why that's a really stupid comment.

Yes. I was just trolling. Intending on you writing a moody reply.

Wasn't to be.

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