Stuka Superb evening. Great game, and even up in the Gods the England fans were uncharacteristically in fine voice.
Bring back the Home Internationals and cancel all other world football.
If you ever get the opportunity, a trip up to Hampden to watch England is unrivalled anywhere else in world football. I went up there last time we played them in '99 for a place at Euro 2000 and the atmosphere was just evil. The return match at Wembley was decent (atmosphere wise) but their pure hatred is something to behold up there.
), save the predictably shambolic efforts of Steve MacLaren in managing to get a 'Golden Generation' not to qualify for Euro 2008.
. Rooney for his part looked like a retired old footballer playing in a testimonial, head was willing, legs long since gone. He's on the way down, rapidly. Yeah yeah he's not played all summer, make whatever excuse you want for the bloke.....he looked exactly the same most of last season to me. Gerrard kept wanting to hit Hollywood passes in a side which otherwise wants to play a short, narrow and utterly insipid sideways passing game. No width at all, although yet we still managed to somehow isolate Walcott out on the right wing for most of the first half, double-marked. First ball over the top to him, goal. He plays down the middle for Arsenal these days, so play him there for England, Hodgson! I hated England's slow, plodding, sideways game. Baines - one of our best players - had lots of the ball but barely crossed it once.
