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"The Premier League is a fraud"

"English players should light a candle at night, because if they were Icelandic, French, German or Dutch they would be lucky to get a quarter of what they are on"

Didi telling it like it is.

Rash ford should have been on much earlier, cracking player

kopkid wrote: Rash ford should have been on much earlier, cracking player

Rash Ford?  Who's he?  Some lad from the Liberties?

eire77 wrote: Is Jacqui Hurley up the pole or just very fond of the biscuits??

The O'Shea wrote: Dunphy is a revisionist boll*x. Goes on about the lack of quality there is in world football today in comparison to 15 years ago, despite the fact he was saying exactly the same thing 15 years ago... Saying that there are only 5 players in the world capable of changing a match really made me chuckle, not to mention trying to argue that Iceland beating England wasn't a huge shock.

Bitored wrote: "The Premier League is a fraud" "English players should light a candle at night, because if they were Icelandic, French, German or Dutch they would be lucky to get a quarter of what they are on" Didi telling it like it is.

Brilliant from Didi.

I love Duffer but his prediction before the game (that England would win 3 or 4 nil) was comical. Iceland are unbeaten in the tournament and knocked out a highly rated Austrian team by beating them last week. They came out of a tough qualifying group without needing a playoff with wins over Holland (home and away), Turkey and the Czech Republic. The way Duffer and the BBC pundits were talking about them you'd swear they were a f*cking a pub team.

The myth of the almighty premier league was exposed, yet again, last night for the fraud that it is. Yes, it was a surprise that Iceland beat England but not nearly as much of a seismic shock as is now being made out. England have been fielding teams comprised of the premier league's finest in tournaments for a long time now without making any real impact.  Their record in tournaments historically (before and after 1966) is pretty awful for a country that considers themselves a major footballing nation. Excluding the two tournaments (1966 and 1996) where they had home advantage they have made it to a grand total of two semi finals in their entire history. If you put this record alongside those that they would consider to be their peers (Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Holland, Brazil, Argentina...etc) it's nothing short of laughable. They have been, and continue to be, serial under achievers and last night was just another addition to their litany of failures at European championships and World cups.

Gary McKay wrote: tony grealish wrote: Excluding the two tournaments (1966 and 1996) where they had home advantage they have made it to a grand total of two semi finals in their entire history. Two ? Thought it was only one - 1990 ?

Euro 68 (Also in Italy funnily enough)

Newryrep wrote: Gary McKay wrote: tony grealish wrote: Excluding the two tournaments (1966 and 1996) where they had home advantage they have made it to a grand total of two semi finals in their entire history. Two ? Thought it was only one - 1990 ?     They made the semis in Portugal

QF's

Newryrep wrote: Gary McKay wrote: tony grealish wrote: Excluding the two tournaments (1966 and 1996) where they had home advantage they have made it to a grand total of two semi finals in their entire history. Two ? Thought it was only one - 1990 ?     They made the semis in Portugal

They did not.

Portugal beat them on penalties in the quarter final.