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Originally Posted by cam_wmh
If you're a new soccer viewer, and appreciate how Canadians approach hockey (duh who doesn't, we're the best), you'll most relate to the English in this World Cup.
They despise diving, the flamboyant exaggeration of most of the nations out there (Scots, Welsh, Irish, not withstanding) & like Canada in SLC '02, are on a dry streak dating back to 1966.
Hard nosed, gritty football.
And to further the contrast between how it should & should not be played, the English play the Italians tomorrow @ 4pm MST.
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Bleh
Roy Hodgson football. I was totally fed up with it when he coached Finland, and I can't wait for England to get trounced in these games just so I'll never have to watch him coach another country again. It's the antithesis of entertainment.
And "hard nosed football", hah. Decade after decade of teams lacking in skill, which is why they're the biggest underachiever of the major footbal countries. They're so far from how the game "should be played" it's not even funny.
I also think many will be pleasantly surprised by Italy. They've come a long way from their anti-football of the nineties.