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Oh, if we're going to be like this I played a couple of times for south London schoolboys. Went training at Crystal Palace and for a very short while was a junior at Spurs and was offered a trial at Everton but by then I'd discovered sex and drugs and rock n'roll. Played Sunday pub football too. Doesn't make me Glenn Hoddle or even Alan Hansen come to think of it.


Anyway, @UDT - to answer your question about Gerrard turning his back on Nasri's shot I would say he should never have been allowed to shoot in the first place and should have been closed down before he got the chance to do so. But you're right he shouldn't have turned his back. You stand firm and try and block or tackle, neither of which he did.

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Does that include the year or so before you

> cottoned-on..? You know.. Before I started making

> it really, really obvious?

>

> Guess not.

>

>

> I think I should leave it now though. Deep down I

> have a nagging feeling it's not really fair.


I cottoned on quite some time ago when you mentioned the soldering iron on a Apple thread.

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Oh, if we're going to be like this I played a

> couple of times for south London schoolboys. Went

> training at Crystal Palace and for a very short

> while was a junior at Spurs and was offered a

> trial at Everton but by then I'd discovered sex

> and drugs and rock n'roll. Played Sunday pub

> football too. Doesn't make me Glenn Hoddle or even

> Alan Hansen come to think of it.

>

> Anyway, @UDT - to answer your question about

> Gerrard turning his back on Nasri's shot I would

> say he should never have been allowed to shoot in

> the first place and should have been closed down

> before he got the chance to do so. But you're

> right he shouldn't have turned his back. You stand

> firm and try and block or tackle, neither of which

> he did.


Thanks JL. I also agree with you on Gerrard's positional sense.

Last night caused me to question whether Ireland deserved to be at the championships at all to be honest. With bottom half premiership players and lower league players, it was probably a major achievement to qualify, but they did nothing for the tournament. Comfortably the weakest team there.

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