How silly. Everyone knows that the key tactical advice in football is to tell the goalie to kick it further.
dearieme | 11.18.07 - 2:44 pm | #

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d...h? v=d1axsnMRbbo

Remember who He was playing for at the time.
Paulie | Homepage | 11.19.07 - 5:14 pm | #

Glorious failure. As predicted.

Not that you needed to be Mystic feckin' Meg to make that call.
Brownie | 11.20.07 - 9:55 pm | #

I've just seen the English match. Very, very inglorious failure. Glorious is better.
dearieme | 11.21.07 - 11:06 pm | #

I know bugger all about football tactics, so "Do better!" is what I tend to yell, if anything.

Haven't worked out a way of getting the players to hear me through the telly, though.
Tom Freeman | Homepage | 11.22.07 - 2:18 pm | #

The key tactic, Tom, is to pass the ball upfield to any man, wearing the same colour of shirt as yourself, who is not "marked". There are variations, but that is the base case.
dearieme | 11.22.07 - 11:45 pm | #

Germans only managed a draw with the mighty Wales (at home as well).
Will | Homepage | 11.23.07 - 12:29 am | #

It was a pitiful performance last night. Will England ever live up to its paper potential?
a very public sociologist | Homepage | 11.23.07 - 1:01 am | #

I liked the caption under a photie of a disconsolate England player in the Scottish version of the Times the other day: "Now they know what it feels like to be Scottish".
Shuggy | Homepage | 11.23.07 - 7:03 pm | #

Even down to the goalies!
dearieme | 11.23.07 - 7:09 pm | #

http://cloud-in-trousers.blogspo...mely- death.html
Will | Homepage | 11.24.07 - 12:15 am | #

I always find "go wide! Go wide!" works wonders. Still don't know what it means ...

... and when it gets really bad, fall back on "rip 'is spleen out!"
simon | Homepage | 12.04.07 - 6:29 pm | #