Comments on: Arsenal and Liverpool serve up real English flavour

By: GQ J77

GQ J77 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:56:12 +0000

DUNCAN

I believe the media are responsible for portraying such an image as “full of ourselves” as the general public and supporter of both domestic and international football will tell you in the Uk…we expect nothing more than doom and gloom…the expectancy level is and always will be high as it should be for everybody.

as for our attitude, its spot on, its experience and committment thats lacking.

By: DUNCAN

DUNCAN — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:00:16 +0000

you britons are so full of yourselves……..no wonder you national team didnt qualify for euro 2008….you are so overrated,and only a change of attitude will recapture your old glory….

By: milkias

milkias — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:48:00 +0000

hy helo every one it good but finshed is bad

By: deep heat

deep heat — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:18:04 +0000

this more or less seems as “racists”, isn’t football about the best men play and show us the best game of sports :D, and entertain the fans who i am sure are also not all English, in the end the better players deserve to play and don’t we all want to see the best players playing ?

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:25:45 +0000

While I understand Blatter and Platini’s concerns, but they also sound like men who have grown past their shelf life in the game sometimes and forgot that they were partly responsible (ok, maybe Blatter more than Platini) for the commercialisation of the game. With that comes the clubs’ desire to be the best due to the money that comes with it, and the managers they hire to achieve those results certainly have their own beliefs with regards to what players they need to get there. Furthermore, the agents have also priced their English clients out of the market in the Premier League, and many of them really aren’t as good as some of the imports.

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:00:48 +0000

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By: Gonzalo

Gonzalo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:23:34 +0000

I’d also like to know how these players have become “infected” with some of the better elements of the English game. From a Spanish perspective, it’s good to see some of these players doing well in England, and here’s hoping they can take back some of that ethos back into the national side (though Cesc seems to be having a really tough time adapting to the Aragonés schema).

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By: Luc

Luc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:21:16 +0000

I know what you mean but I think it does still matter, and it is a shame there weren;t a lot more English players on the two teams. Dirk Kuyt scored, OK, but is he really any better than any Englishmen Liverpool could have found.

By: john

john — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:02:45 +0000

w000000000000000w that was a nice game..

By: Mark Meadows

Mark Meadows — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:56:58 +0000

and the game was played in a stadium named after a foreign company and with one of the teams owned by two Americans. Yet I totally agree that it had an English flavour. Why do Xabi Alonso and Gael Clichy et al stick their foot in and run like the clappers far more than they would in their home countries? Surely it cant be just Steven Gerrard egging them on? They just get caught up in the hype, the crowd noise etc. Long may it continue.