Posted on 06/27/2010 10:27:04 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Germany's striker Lukas Podolski celebrates after scoring the second goal
Germany's Thomas Mueller (L) celebrates after scoring the third goal past England's goalkeeper David James during their 2010 World Cup secondround soccer match
Germany's Thomas Mueller celebrates after scoring the fourth goal past England's goalkeeper David James during their 2010 World Cup second roundsoccer match at Free State stadium in Bloemfontein June 27, 2010.
That was a clinic.
But I don’t want the Germans to complain any more about the call in the ‘66 Final. It’s all ‘Even Stevens’ now.
Well, you know it’s a different world when people with names like Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski are called GERMANS.
Big respect for England who played a very clean and fair game.
score should have been 4,2 and if they teams were level at half time then England would not have come out looking to that goal so early and throw players forward to get caught out.
Still in the end Germany played better but to say humiliate is a little deceiving. ..
Both teams played to a place where no other teams have played and that was no moaning, no nothing but get on with the game as it should be.
I knew you would make an appearance. Congrats on the clinic in counterattack football. The English back 4 were awful.
An outstanding German team and effort made the English look very ordinary — not bad but just ordinary.
Watched USA-Ghana and Germany-England. What I wanna know is WHY countless (outrun) Ghanians writhed on ground “hurt” whenever the US got the ball, whereas the Germany-England match was free of such obviously fake spectacles.
Congrats Germany, you won it handily.
Couldn’t have happened to a “nicer” or more “humble” group of fans. You don’t see me crying any tears for perfidious Albion.
Thank you, better luck next time!
England looked slow and lethargic. But, that being said, if the goal was counted and the score was 2-2...who knows how that may have affected the remainder of the game. Germany’s last 2 goals were on counterattack breaks where England were pushing forward to get the equalizer. Germany was impressive but FIFA needs goal line technology.
The only goal line technology FIFA needs are better sets of eyes.
Horrible weekend for the Anglosphere, hee hee.
Sometimes I think England would have been better off if the bloody Germans had won the war! England is a mess on the field and off!
And when people with names like Barack Hussein Obama are called natural born citizens of the U.S.
It’s the price England has had to pay for the success of the English Premier League.
English clubs aren’t interested in developing local talent, they want to buy it from everywhere else.
And they have high-profile players, with their WAGS and too many other distractions.
How many of the German players are considered superstars? Podolski and Klose hardly tear it up with their clubs, but they are a perfect fit for the way Die Mannschaft play.
As I said in another thread, England would perform better in the World Cup, if they used players from The Championship (the division lower than the Premiership), you may not get the level of talent, but you’d get more cohesion and fewer player personnel issues. There are always too many prima donnas on England.
And in retrospect, Terry not only should have been stripped of his captaincy, he should have been left off the squad entirely, he was dreadful (maybe even on purpose just to spite Capello), but again that’s what you get with a team of prima donnas.
Germany was the far superior team, and likely would have won by 1 or 2 anyway. But incompetent refereeing (esp. at this level & venue) is uncalled for...
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