European U21 Championship 2011

Henderson trying o keep game ticking over, hard to do when those around you are sh*te and that includes rodwell. These championships should not be what we judge this lad on.

Jones nearly put them in the sh*t there

Just wide from Lansbury.  He's been lively since he came on.

Final score 0-0.

Same Old England, How The Hell Did They Lose That

Same Old England, How The Hell Did They Lose That

Same Old England, How The Hell Did They Lose That

Answered your own question there mate

Pearce couldn't manage a fire.

Well they lost by conceding the first goal. At 1-1 everybody went for the winner, inevitable that they would score down the other end if we couldn't bag the winner ourselves.

Answered your own question there mate

Haha Very true, never should have been relying on a win today in the first place, shoulda beaten ukraine

what was the score
didnt watch it
ynwa

what was the score
didnt watch it
ynwa

2-1 czechs

England 1 up until the last five minutes.

unlucky

61 - England played more unsuccessful long balls than any other team in the U21 European Championships group stage

How many of them were Phil Jones? Of the combined 90mins I watched of England's games, he did a helluvva lotta long balls!

How many of them were Phil Jones? Of the combined 90mins I watched of England's games, he did a helluvva lotta long balls!

Smalling wasn't much better.

Fergie has a lot of work to do on them 2.

I'm waiting to see how this is Fabio Capello's fault too!

Systemic problems in English football are they reason for sh*te performance's in internationals not the manager alone.

Unfortunately there are a majority in the English support that seem unwilling/unable to grapple with the real problems and prefer to say, "We need someone English!"

I'm waiting to see how this is Fabio Capello's fault too...

He left psycho in the job!!

He left psycho in the job!!

Those lads seemed to revert to long-balls as a default when under the cosh, more than Pearce's fault.

Though Pearce is sh*te admittedly.

And believe me I know about long-ball football, I have to watch Scotland!!

People like Fabio Capello are too good to work with England. Technically England are a complete shambles. I don't have a clue what job Trevor Brooking is doing but it certainly isn't working. Of course it doesn't help for the youngsters to be taught such brain dead tactical/technical work such as lobbing the ball high in the air and hoping for the best. It's a disgrace that the likes of managers such as Pulis and Allardyce.

The football culture in England is incredibly backward. A complete revolution of the system has to occur like the one Spain did in the mid 90s where by thousands of coaches became top listed UEFA coaches. I think Spain has something like 10 times the amount of top graded coaches as England does. That's shocking and it has to change.

I'm glad we are out of it.  Don't want our player coming back crocked.

Belarus one up against Spain. Neat finish.

Hope Spain go out 

65 mins gone still 1-0 down.