martint235
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Despite the pessimism after Saturday, I feel that the RFU and English Rugby is moving forwards. The treatment of Brian Ashton is in the past and we're slowly moving away from our own WC debacle.
Fabio Capello resigns as England manager.
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GrumpyGregry
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True.
But so-called 'soccer values', an unfair jibe at wendyball imo, are increasingly common in the modern game, and at all levels too, as players in the community game ape what they see in showbiz rugby. Money and professionalism have changed the game, on and off the pitch, and the elite players attitudes, in ways that the sport is struggling to adapt to.
GrumpyGregry
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btw. Hands up if you think "resigns" in this context means; has left by mutual agreement under a compromise agreement and the big fat cheque (salary £6 million for a part-time job) will be in the post in due course.
The FA have to take a big part of the blame for that. Even if it is the right decision, what sensible management takes it without consulting the manager? And humiliates him by doing so in public?
GrumpyGregry
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Why, knowing the temperament of the man, one might almost think such an oversight was deliberate!
martint235
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Sensible? The Football Association?
Mice
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Apparently the FA are making an announcement at midday today but its not happened yet so the BBC have put up a live feed of some empty seats! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16964065
Chromatic
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We were talking about this at work earlier, I reckon they should give the job to Holloway from Blackpool, he wouldn't be any worse than anyone else and at least the press conferences would be fun.
Chromatic
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And he's English.
Aperitif
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...and all because Capello thought that his captain should be seen racing around all over the pitch...oh! the problems with language.
Indeed, but that is the way of the world. Camberlain (wrongly maligned, I've always thought) once said of The Sudaten issue that is was "a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing"
I confess to knowing little of the parties on either side of the dispute in Syria. Few people do. Other than the likelihood that Assad is a despotic monster in an eastern Med full of them, it is all a bit of a blur to me.
Harry, on the other hand, is Media Gold.
If he gets the job, appoints Jordan (not the country) as his assistant and wins Euro 2012, they might even invite him onto Celebrity Big Brother.
I think it's important to keep these things in perspective and in proportion.
Nearly there
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The players simply aren't good enough every tournament the media whips the country into a frenzy thinking its our time but lets get real England have won how many world cups and euro champs mmm Great expectations indeed.
And are you going to tell her that? Brave man!
