Comments on: The team that couldn’t shoot straight http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/ The weblog of Brighton-based writer Justin McKeating Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:10:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ejh http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-40142 ejh Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:45:51 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=2564#comment-40142 <i>ejh, are you honestly telling me that taking Theo Walcott to the last World Cup in place of Defoe wasn’t a spectacular own goal by Eriksson?</i> I'm disinclined to think that Defoe would have made any significant difference. Though it <i>was</i> bizarre that Walcott was taken by a manager who was manifestly unwilling to play him. ejh's latest blog post... <a href="http://justinhorton.blogspot.com/2008/06/hallucinations.html" rel="nofollow">Hallucinations</a> ejh, are you honestly telling me that taking Theo Walcott to the last World Cup in place of Defoe wasn’t a spectacular own goal by Eriksson?

I’m disinclined to think that Defoe would have made any significant difference. Though it was bizarre that Walcott was taken by a manager who was manifestly unwilling to play him.

ejh’s latest blog post… Hallucinations

]]> By: Philip http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-40141 Philip Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:02:53 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=2564#comment-40141 <i>Charles Clarke looks like a grumpy testicle</i> [round of applause] Philip's latest blog post... <a href="http://thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2008/06/delicately-balanced-fundaments.html" rel="nofollow">Delicately Balanced Fundaments</a> Charles Clarke looks like a grumpy testicle

[round of applause]

Philip’s latest blog post… Delicately Balanced Fundaments

]]> By: mitch http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-40140 mitch Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:18:01 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=2564#comment-40140 Bliar did this to silence gordon who is gordon scared of now? Bliar did this to silence gordon who is gordon scared of now?

]]> By: Jim Bliss http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-40137 Jim Bliss Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:40:24 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=2564#comment-40137 ejh, are you honestly telling me that taking Theo Walcott to the last World Cup in place of Defoe wasn't a spectacular own goal by Eriksson? Jim Bliss's latest blog post... <a href="http://numero57.net/?p=291" rel="nofollow">T. Boone calls the peak</a> ejh, are you honestly telling me that taking Theo Walcott to the last World Cup in place of Defoe wasn’t a spectacular own goal by Eriksson?

Jim Bliss’s latest blog post… T. Boone calls the peak

]]> By: ejh http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-40132 ejh Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:59:53 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=2564#comment-40132 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_FIFA_World_Cup#Group_4" rel="nofollow">Here</a> we go. In their first game of the 1954 >Finals, England allowed Belgium to snatch a 4-4 draw with a 94th-minute own goal by Jimmy Dickinson, England having themselves just taken the lead in injury-time. The game took place in Basle, where coincidentally tonight's quarter-final is being played (and at the same stadium). I believe this is the only own goal England have ever conceded in a Finals tournament. ejh's latest blog post... <a href="http://justinhorton.blogspot.com/2008/06/hallucinations.html" rel="nofollow">Hallucinations</a> Here we go. In their first game of the 1954 >Finals, England allowed Belgium to snatch a 4-4 draw with a 94th-minute own goal by Jimmy Dickinson, England having themselves just taken the lead in injury-time. The game took place in Basle, where coincidentally tonight’s quarter-final is being played (and at the same stadium). I believe this is the only own goal England have ever conceded in a Finals tournament.

ejh’s latest blog post… Hallucinations

]]> By: ejh http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-40130 ejh Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:34:37 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=2564#comment-40130 I suppose one could view Wayne Rooney stamping on Ronaldo's knackers as an own goal of sorts. ejh's latest blog post... <a href="http://justinhorton.blogspot.com/2008/05/aspirations.html" rel="nofollow">Aspirations</a> I suppose one could view Wayne Rooney stamping on Ronaldo’s knackers as an own goal of sorts.

ejh’s latest blog post… Aspirations

]]> By: Justin http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-40129 Justin Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:21:03 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=2564#comment-40129 It's a fair cop. It’s a fair cop.

]]> By: ejh http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-40128 ejh Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:37:02 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=2564#comment-40128 It is. But I suspect you were thinking of the tournament rather than the qualifiers... ejh's latest blog post... <a href="http://justinhorton.blogspot.com/2008/05/aspirations.html" rel="nofollow">Aspirations</a> It is. But I suspect you were thinking of the tournament rather than the qualifiers…

ejh’s latest blog post… Aspirations

]]> By: Justin http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-40127 Justin Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:56:00 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=2564#comment-40127 Hang on. There's this from the qualifiers for Euro 2008. Does that count? It's certainly pretty spectacular. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PMb0S8EQxTE&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PMb0S8EQxTE&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Hang on. There’s this from the qualifiers for Euro 2008. Does that count? It’s certainly pretty spectacular.

]]> By: Justin http://www.chickyog.net/2008/06/21/the-team-that-couldnt-shoot-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-40126 Justin Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:49:42 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/?p=2564#comment-40126 You sod. You sod.

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