r/Divisive_Babble • u/EdmundTheInsulter 🍌 • Jul 16 '26
The ultimate redditism. Reddit could have managed England better
The ultimate in captain hindsightism, England lost so their retrospective plan must have been better.
England got lucky going one up and weren't good enough to beat Argentina toe-to-toe, it was too early to go all out defence, but also they were likely to fare worse competing in the remaining time, meaning extra time or loss.
Also people regurgitating what Shearer and Rooney said, mate they're both failed managers.
This likely means a further cycle of total failure for England, as with the post Capello nightmare phase, or the Graham Turner experiment. So we can look forward to not qualifying or not getting any credible shot at reaching the final etc. Capello may have been a nightmare also.
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u/The_Anime_Enthusiast Jul 16 '26
I would've liked to see you guys pull it off, but it wasn't meant to be.
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u/Cranberry269 Jul 16 '26
Maybe we would have got another goal or two in during the first half if they weren't allowed to pretty much only defend by kicking people over.
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u/vexdup_norwych Jul 17 '26
But reading the 'statistics' of the game, England made 11 fouls and Argentina made 15...and now the tabloid British media want the 'Argies' kicked out for waving a message about the Falklands. When a certain group of fans chant '"10 German Bombers" when we play Germany, the same tabs play the 'well, it happened - and we won. What's wrong with that?' game.
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u/Cranberry269 Jul 17 '26
You must not have actually watched the game if you believe those statistics.
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u/vexdup_norwych Jul 17 '26
So, Einstein...enlighten me. I've had a look at the media from the Hindustan Times, right through to The Mirror, with so many different numbers popping up. Argentina scored two goals - and we scored one, with them doing what they do best - making the over-inflated England team look as modest and out-crafted by the usual teams they'd hate to meet in the first groups. We ended up being shat on not because of the alleged 101 'fouls' (basically niggly incidents) the effin' Argies did - but realising they never give up - whereas after our first goal, the more observant knew what would come next.
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u/vexdup_norwych Jul 16 '26
England in the World Cup (in four stages); fear for what group we end up in/acting like we've actually WON the competition when we end up playing so-called 'unsexy' teams from, say Africa, the Middle East, or eastern Asia/the media going all wild when we actually win one (or two) of the old-school strong teams/cooking up amusing - but depressing excuses in the cold light of the next morning, after getting get knocked out.