2013 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship

Great fight back.

Shelvey and Robinson dropped to the bench today. Henderson playing in the #10 role.

England picking a much stronger team today then.

F**k knows how Lowe gets a game though.

Hendo with a lovely 40 yard pass there, he's started well. Other midfielders not so much. Lowe is sh*te.

1-0 Norway.

Can't believe Wisdom isn't in this team.

England 2-0 down. Oh dear.

Stuart Pearce

With Hodgson and Pearce around please for the love of god just consign this period of English football to its dark history. The FA really run the national game at such a god awful standard. Crimes against football are committed by this nation and that organisation.

3-0. Spanking.

3-0. Spanking.

Finished 3-1.

If Stuart Pearce gets out of this still with a job then the FA are even more of a joke than I thought.

Finished 3-1.

If Stuart Pearce gets out of this still with a job then the FA are even more of a joke than I thought.

Mate you ain't seen nothing yet.

With Hodgson and Pearce around please for the love of god just consign this period of English football to its dark history. The FA really run the national game at such a god awful standard. Crimes against football are committed by this nation and that organisation.

The FA in all it's glory, evaporating expectation at a stroke.

The scary thing is some actually rate Pearce.

.. and the owl!

The FA in all it's glory, evaporating expectation at a stroke.

I think it's definitely fair to say that because of the FA, England are now moving backwards at a more alarming rate than ever before in the past 20 years. It's in a shocking state the country finds itself in and it is all the fault of the Football Association. They must rank alongside the North Korean government as the most incompetent/butchering regime of the present era.

I think it's definitely fair to say that because of the FA, England are now moving backwards at a more alarming rate than ever before in the past 20 years. It's in a shocking state the country finds itself in and it is all the fault of the Football Association. They must rank alongside the North Korean government as the most incompetent/butchering regime of the present era.

Kim Jong il would be offended with the anology.

Tuned in Just as Norway scored the 2nd with ease, our defenders showing a total lack of awareness and ran back as if were in quick sand, pearce might have been a decent full back, but as far as managing goes, even Kean at Blackburn was better. 

Stuart Pearce say England Under-21 deserved their exit from the Euro Championship after losing 3 - 1 to Israel.

''I don't think the players have done themselves credit to be honest with you, individually and collectively,'' said the U-21 coach.
''You get what you deserve in football.''

If Pearce had a shred of credibility he would he would collect his P45 and get his arse round to the job centre.
Players who don't deserve credit ''individually and collectively'' are all a product of his tutoring and instruction.
Surely the blame he attributes to others belongs closer to home.
Coming under the FA umbrella as he does Pearce will be well versed in blame deflection in all it's forms.

Wijnaldum with a quality goal for The Netherlands!

Stuart Pearce say England Under-21 deserved their exit from the Euro Championship after losing 3 - 1 to Israel.

''I don't think the players have done themselves credit to be honest with you, individually and collectively,'' said the U-21 coach.
''You get what you deserve in football.''

If Pearce had a shred of credibility he would he would collect his P45 and get his arse round to the job centre.
Players who don't deserve credit ''individually and collectively'' are all a product of his tutoring and instruction.
Surely the blame he attributes to others belongs closer to home.
Coming under the FA umbrella as he does Pearce will be well versed in blame deflection in all it's forms.

If this was Hodgson we'd be hearing about 'a quality performance against a top class side'.

That time will come no doubt. The U21s are just serving as a precursor to the main disaster event that inevitably will come the way of the senior squad.

Netherlands 5-1 Russia

Didn't watch the match but apparently the Dutch have formed an interesting group of youngsters just for a change!

This Spanish team is just full of super players. End product hasn't been there as Germany have defended well but the likes of Isco, Rodrigo, Illarramendi (who I F***ing love) just super talents

Overhyped, overpaid England fails miserably yet again.

Must have been that group of death they were in.

Israel 1-0 England.

3 straight defeats