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I just hope Henderson doesn’t pick up any injuries. We need him for next Sat.

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Well, Lithuania later today. Now that we have nailed qualification, I wonder what team will be put out. I would imagine some players out there will want some time out so that they can prepare for the next PL game which is understandable as they wouldn’t want to risk injury.

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Jim:

The heart of the matter is that we find ourselves with a Manager who doesn’t in fairness have a pedigree and good quality English players at a short supply.

It’s been a double-edge sword to find some form of balance and the reason why I made a point of Ferguson was because he was the mantle other clubs in top flight football aspired to try and take down.

The common theme was the hiring of foreign Managers/Coaches and bringing more foreign players into our game. And history shows in fairness, that’s been a good thing because United’s dominance eventually broke down and we have a more competitive Premier League.

However, as far as Management go, there haven’t been for one reason or another, an English Manager who’s been part in being highly successful. If this was the case, this person hypothetically would appear as a ‘good fit’ to lead our national team.

Coupled with that, nobody young stepped up once you take out of the equation the late Sir Bobby Robson, Terry Venables and Glen Hoddle. We then chosen to take the route of Sven, and Fabio.

The FA then have reverted to only hiring an Englishman and we only have effectively Gareth Southgate. It’s a sad state of affairs when there’s several out there sitting in the studio analysing the game, but not for one reason or another aspiring to develop themselves with a view to managing our national team – something in which I must say as an England support am highly disappointed of.

Some form of encouragement at the very least since the end of the ‘golden generation’ is that we have a group of half-decent players that can get it together, though it still misses that ‘stand out’ player and leader.

Sometimes I wonder whether there’s any point to facilitating all these academies.

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This is like a cliff-hanger or a ‘to be continued’.

If people can’t see or already see and dithering about in pretence and innocence, then the problem is starred upon.

It all falls back to breaking Ferguson’s dominance which in my point of view naturally was depressingly raw, hated Manchester United at the expense of Liverpool, and will loathe them greater than any football club at the expense of Liverpool.

What should essentially have taken place is those players ‘Goldstar’ of the 1990s’ should naturally have accelerated. Why don’t we have a Queue of Candidates for the England Position? No Prefixed Computer Portal?????

Quite simply because of the allowance of Foreign investment pointing in the direction of the Top Flight starting with The Glazers.

The attitude precedent to employ more and more Foreign Managers into the Top Flight and essentially put out any potential recruitment of English Managers.
Look at the Premier League: Count how many English Managers are in occupation, then calculate against our National Side, and here were are, ala Gareth Southgate.

Note, no England respected legendary from Mexico 86, ala Peter Beardsley, John Barnes, Bryan Robson, Peter Shilton even. 25-30 years in living this; what has gone wrong and why?????

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The problem in the declarations and protestations is the carnage and destruction of infrastructure paying the price.

I think some years down the line once Britain is totally independent, we may start to see more constituencies form across the country. Maybe Cons, Labour and LD will be a thing of the past!

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If Southgate remains as Manager, then we have very little chance of getting past the group stages, that’s my reckoning. Otherwise, the guys overall have done well easy group or not and deserve a bit of gratitude. We qualified after all.

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Yep, we got there in the end even though we made hard work of it.

Sorted – June 2018 here we come!

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That was written in the script 🙂

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Well, we nearly went 1 up. It wasn’t a bad decision as such by Rashford to go for the chip, but a little too delicate and easy-peasy at the end of the day for the keeper to get hold of.

Sterling comes close as I type, so things are finally starting to hot up!

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Half-time and same old same old. The studio pundits seem as though they feel embarrassed!

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Brian Blue, sorry, just seen your reply now.

Against the other clubs mentioned, they realistically would have a better chance of signing him than us. It would be very flattering if he did chose us and I’d welcome Kane with open arms.

We are devoid now of a striker and the goals are drying up!

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Kane’s really going out of his way these early stages to make things happen and is commendable. Other’s out there not quite on board so far and Lallana’s creativity and presence is missed as with his club.

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Had my Birthday a couple of weeks ago and always great to share and put on a couple of these great icons from The Stone Roses: Purely Magical and for one for my Dad – gotta jog his memory a bit 🙂 🙂

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Chucky, that setting could be better with Nandos or Pizza Hut 🙂

Peroni Nastro Azuro too lol 😀 🙂

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I’m with Oz Yob.

You have to be able to put together as a Manager a spine. Heard this ‘term’ whether it’s just poking fun or to pose this with some sort of a meaning; “Brendan Klopp”.

Perhaps that’s just a coincidence with the 2 Managers having similar traits placing emphasis on attacking players. I was genuinely over the moon when we signed the Ox and there’s no way I’d take him back for a refund, but we need a quality striker.

We should really have in place a finished article and then we can integrate a Ben Woodburn or a Danny Ings.

Defenders: well they speak for themselves and although Dejan Lovren and Joel Matip can play, they have to deal with further responsibility in full-back duties – they ae stretched a lot of the time and struggle with ariel threat.

We have when it comes to past history of Liverpool teams set a precedent of building from the back.

Sound call Oz.

I might well be in the minority, but I genuinely don’t feel to that point of wanting Jurgen out; not sure really what I can add on that particular part as I have a real liking for him.

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But then, if we lose to Man U in 2 weeks time, the pressure will be on our Manager.

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I would have thought it would be Koeman.

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Read earlier today an article in the Express in how Klopp believes we’re not too far away from a title challenge.

The goals we concede are not outright good quality from opposition albeit Man City (but 10 men in essence changed the game), but just feeble and down to the bare basics which we’re just not switched on as a unit and prone to being exposed and punished.

The guy on the BBC phone in making a point about 5 windows, does have validity. Mourinho and Guardiola are not the type of Managers to faff about. They address the problematic areas and now have stronger squads as a result.

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Lol, Richard and Andy these days analysing the game. Gosh I do miss these guys 😀

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Maverick, I saw him live last weekend my friend and he’s a genuine threat going forward and a good supplement to the attack.

I don’t know if he is sort of regarded as a Jon Arne Risse type of player, but when it comes defending, he can manage the tackle here and there, but when organising himself and dealing with pressure situations, he’s just a rabbit in headlamps.

We’ve gone backwards playing him and I don’t understand it considering Robertson was signed in the summer.

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