We're scousers, not English MsG! 
I'm an adopted scouser from far away shores and certainly agree with Ms Gerrard, if it's not for Gerard and Crouch i wouldn't even bother to know how England faired. Regardless of the result against Croatia, Maclaren still have to go. If Russia had not clipped the goal post towrads the end of the match, Steve McDoughnut may have been booted out earlier. I still can't forget the match against Russia, if Steve McDoughnut had selected Carragher, we wouldn't have conceded 2 goals, those damn schoolboy mistakes. Read "uefa.com" article on him. I'm lost for words. He said something like :-
1. "It will be difficult but I'm convinced we will get the result we need and we will qualify".
- This guy is confused, first he says "difficult" next he says "we will qualify", so does he honestly believe we will or will not qualify??? His statement sounds too confident to me but it will come back and haunt him , (recall what Beckenbauer said about England underperform all these years - overconfident). If we ever qualify, he will only lead us to disaster. Better get rid of him soon, as not qualifying may just be a blessing in disguise before he leads us to a bigger disaster by not qualifying for the World Cup. He should talk less and do more, if i were him i'd just make it short and sweet something like "we know exactly what we need to do now to qualify" and stop mincing with words and got me confused.
2. "I have said several times in the last few weeks, the campaighn was not over until it was over"
- It was game over for him if Russia's shot had gone in and not hit the outside of Israel's left post. This guy has got no shame. He should be humble enough to say "we thought it was over for us but Israel gave us another lifeline and i can't thank them enough and make sure that we dont slip-up again" and start buying each of the Israeli players a bottle of vintage wine, not forgetting the coach, out of his pocket.
3. " ........ we really want the fans to generate a reallly big Wembley atmosphere ...." Bloody h*ll he doesn't need the crowd to motivate the players, we have 11 superstars (most on 60k pd. pay bracket per week) on the field and damn he's the England manager, he and the players needs to know how to motivate themselves and not pass the buck to the fans. If determination and urgency of our play is there, the support will naturally be there as well, he doesn't have to ask for it. Don't use that as an excuse if he doesn't achieve the desired results against Croatia. Someone will have to tell him that by winning on opposition ground is where it is truly shows how good a manager he is, he doesn't have to depend on the crowd for motivation. Someone remind him of Rome 1977/78.
I would imply Stevie's battle cry for the game against Croatia as someting like, to helll with the manager, we will need to redeem ourselves and show what we can do to the fans and we got no motivation from the manager.
Simply said, the reputation of the players is simply too big for him to handle, he just doesn't know how to handle them. I may be slated for what i'm going to say next, that is, by having Big Phil (at least he's passionate with his job to the entend that he has gone overboard at times, that's good, if players don't pergorm, they'll most probably get a slap on the face) may be more effective many times over. England is riding on a "golden era" of world football with the players that they have and the English FA must not let one incompetent manager to spoil all that.
Enough said.
