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Opening game is on Eurosport.. Egypt (the hosts) v Trinidad and Tobago. 80,000 sell out in Alexandria Reckon they could have sold out twice!!

Just had a look through the England Squad..

The following players have not travelled..

Kyle Walker (First teamer at Sheff Yonited, so fair enough)
Kieren Gibbs
Jack Cork
Jack Wilshere
Junior Stanislas
Fabian Delph (First teamer)
Tope Obadeyi
Danny Welbeck
Scott Sinclair
Daniel Sturridge
Freddie Sears (first teamer at Palace)
Andy Carrol (First teamer at Newcastle)

All the ones with no brackets have not been selected as their respective teams declared they were needed at home...

Dunga, Messi, Owen and Aguero have all highlighted this tournament as one of the most important tournaments of their careers. Some other countries actually MAKE clubs release players for it

Seemingly not England, who are sh*t scared of the clubs in it's leagues and are happy to let themsit on benches rather than help them to enhance their game and give them invaluable experience of International, tournament football


Shame on you FA

The FA are brilliant and we couldn't do without them. They're fantastic.

You should be ashamed boris. Ashamed.

Brillianty, T&T have a white player in their line up, like they did in the seniors 3 years ago...

T&T's striker is called Gay. hur!

Tope is a first-teamer at Swindon. Two goals in six or seven appearances.

England coach Brian Eastick:
"We're really looking forward to going to Egypt and taking part at this FIFA U-20 World Cup. With the tournament taking place in September and October, we hope clubs release our best players for this tournament. If that happens, we'll have a real chance,"

Looking forward to seeing how Tahiti do under Charbonnier.

Spain makes clubs release their players... Atlético lost their first choice goalkeeper for that tournament!

Village_Idiot2 wrote:Spain makes clubs release their players... Atlético lost their first choice goalkeeper for that tournament!

Sergio Asenjo?

blurred wrote:Looking forward to seeing how Tahiti do under Charbonnier.

Not too well at the moment.

They were hammered 8-0 by Spain and it could and should have been many more. Offered no resistence to the Spanish attacks and showed a bit of petulance to boot. Goalkeeper is fantastically dreadful too, kind of like Jorge Campos, but without the agility!!

Difficult to see if the Spanish were any good or not though to be honest, you'd think so judging by the result, but the Tahitans were Sunday League standard.

boltonboris wrote:

blurred wrote:Looking forward to seeing how Tahiti do under Charbonnier.

Not too well at the moment.

They were hammered 8-0 by Spain and it could and should have been many more. Offered no resistence to the Spanish attacks and showed a bit of petulance to boot. Goalkeeper is fantastically dreadful too, kind of like Jorge Campos, but without the agility!!

Difficult to see if the Spanish were any good or not though to be honest, you'd think so judging by the result, but the Tahitans were Sunday League standard.

What sort of side have the Spaniels put out? Is Bojan playing?

Bruno wrote:

boltonboris wrote:

blurred wrote:Looking forward to seeing how Tahiti do under Charbonnier.

Not too well at the moment.

They were hammered 8-0 by Spain and it could and should have been many more. Offered no resistence to the Spanish attacks and showed a bit of petulance to boot. Goalkeeper is fantastically dreadful too, kind of like Jorge Campos, but without the agility!!

Difficult to see if the Spanish were any good or not though to be honest, you'd think so judging by the result, but the Tahitans were Sunday League standard.

What sort of side have the Spaniels put out? Is Bojan playing?

He wasn't mate. The commentators did however, make a note that most of the players were first team regulars at their clubs, some playing in La Liga, some others in lower divisions

Bojan is injuried, but has been called up. I'd expect him to play if we reach later stages.

England playing tonight. Only Ben Mee and Febian Brandy are names I recognise in the starting line up.

Brian Eastick, incidentally, was my examiner during my FA Coaching badges. Not the sort of coach that over complicates things, but does know his Youth Development.

I see the Uruguay coach is called Aguirre - more wrath of God rather than hand of God, I presume.

Anyways, how does Brian Eastick measure against the John Beck yardstick?

Little Green Man wrote:I see the Uruguay coach is called Aguirre - more wrath of God rather than hand of God, I presume.

Anyways, how does Brian Eastick measure against the John Beck yardstick?

Tell you Monday. I fear the answer will be "very favourably".

Little Green Man wrote:I see the Uruguay coach is called Aguirre - more wrath of God rather than hand of God, I presume.

Anyways, how does Brian Eastick measure against the John Beck yardstick?

Aguirre was Atletico boss when we beat them.

Oh, and I love that film, one of my all-time favourites.

Bruno wrote:Aguirre was Atletico boss when we beat them.

Oh, and I love that film, one of my all-time favourites.

This is Diego Aguirre rather than Javier.

That's one of those films that I only ever seem to catch half way through. Must look out for it again.

Well, that's the worst performance by an Aussie U-20 side in a long long time.

Big positive was Mooy - had a blinder at AM and scored this peachagainst Brazil.

Was reading through the BBC quotes of the week thing, and noticed this....

"We did not score goals and so we lost the game."
Samson Siasia, Nigeria's Under-20 Football team coach states the obvious after his team lost 2-0 to Spain in the Fifa Under-20 Cup. (Wale Fatade, Nigeria).

Remember him? What the feck was all that about?

HAHA. He was the random guy who said he was coming taking over right?