will England find creative ways to respond in the second half?

The England football team always tries to end up in the "runner-up spot", every time they play a match! If they played Liechtenstein's One-Legged Under-11 Ladies' team they'd try to finish second. It's because we want pity, not success!

England had a great team in the 1980s. Those guys were truly great. I don't if anyone here remembers England crushing Turkey twice by the same score, 8-0, both at home and away, back then. I might be wrong, but, when I compare the English team from that period and the one they've had since then, it's like comparing something that used to be made in England and something that is now made in China. I might be wrong though.

I've watched most of the games that England have played, or the highlights of them. They're doing quite well, I suppose, but I've never been impressed by our football "supporters", so perhaps I'm rubbishing the wrong people! So I bow to your greater knowledge (no sarcasm intended).

this particular figure of speech has been thrown into conversation again -- and again it fails to make sense in the context... infatuated with it a bit too much?

1) Tamerlane 29.06.2018 11:56 link
to johnstephenson

England had a great team in the 1980s. Those guys were truly great. I don't [know] if anyone here remembers England crushing Turkey twice by the same score, 8-0, both at home and away, back then. I might be wrong, but, when I compare the English team from that period and the one they've had since then, it's like comparing something that used to be made in England and something that is now made in China. I might be wrong though.

2) honigbrot 29.06.2018 12:08 link
i wouldn't go out on a limb with the comparisons.
"made in china" has developed enormously in the meantime, just as "made in germany" once did.

3) Tamerlane 29.06.2018 12:17 link
It may be worth looking not at the finger but where it is pointing.

4) honigbrot 29.06.2018 13:15 link
then please get to the point. because with your comparison, you could only guess what you wanted to say.

5) Tamerlane 29.06.2018 14:14 link
The message was addressed to johnstephenson. Let him deal with it.

6) интроьверт 29.06.2018 19:17 link
\\\ It may be worth looking not at the finger but where it is pointing.

this particular figure of speech has been thrown into conversation again -- and again it fails to make sense in the context... infatuated with it a bit too much?

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This time around, палец указывал вот сюда:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/10210434/Poll-is-English-football-losing-its-soul.html

Poll: is English football losing its soul?
PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor believes English football is "in danger of losing its soul" because of selfish players, avaricious owners and managers obsessed with the short term.

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Capisce?

Тамерлан, я Вам искренне сочувствую. Тут действительно слово написать нельзя - сразу же нарываешься на неадекват.

TSB_77 - это была действительно гениальная игра! Я не особый фанат спорта и футбола в частности, но сегодня был буквально прикован к экрану. Вратарю нашему надо памятник ставить. И ребята молодцы, такие пакостные атаки и нарушающие приемы отстояли! Я всегда верил в нашу сборную и державу. И нисколько не сожалею об уходе испанцев и немцев, гоу хоум ))

наверное, прикованный к экрану чел смотрел какой-то другой матч :)

спрашиваю: ПОЧЕМУ ОН ГОВОРИТ ПО-НЕМЕЦКИ?
а мне в ответ: Ну как тебе сказать… Наверное, потому, что у него интервью берут немецкие репортёры.

спрашиваю: ПОЧЕМУ ОН ГОВОРИТ ПО-НЕМЕЦКИ?
а мне в ответ: Ну как тебе сказать… Наверное, потому, что у него интервью берут немецкие репортёры.

ЗЫ. когда хозяйка визжит, со шваброй в руке можно отбить атаку вооруженных грабителей и потом отчистить пол если они наследили например. ну и вообще полезная весчь - так что испуганная_заспанная_филиппинка +1