I have a World Cup question...

[T_i_B]

Was the England v Algeria match last night the worst match of this world cup, or the worst football match ever? :-(

That was even worse then the dross I've sat through at Hillsborough this season. I think that as a punishmernt, the England team should be made to play their next match in morris dancers outfits!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. I think England would have struggled against a League One side last night

If England had matched its under-par performance against the USA in this match, it would have won by more than one goal.

[T_i_B]

7. It says something...

that the best player in that match was an ex-Sheffield Wednesday player (Mahjid Bougherra). The only comfort is that we are not the only big team badly underperforming.

[oldironside]

2. I think the worst I've ever seen.

I became really aware of football around the '74 World Cup. (Q "Dad, why aren't England there?" Q softly, through gritted teeth. "Because they didn't qualify."

I've seen shite.

I've supported West Ham all my football life. That is a perpetual disappointment.

I've followed England in every tournament.

<I lived near the Molineux for five years.

I had a mate who was a big Brighton And Hove Albion fan and I used to go with him during that season they nearly went out of the league (97-98?)

I know what it's like to watch 11 men who play like strangers who are learning the rules.

Even after all that, last night's England performance was the seventh circle under the pit of shite. Rabbits in headlights? Millionaires dreaming of their penthouses? Those boys we all knew at school - good at football, thick as a swine bi-product, and made multi millionaires overnight at 19 so they don't care about anything else? Take your choice. But if I was that shite at my job I'd be in the dole queue.

As a punishment the England players should be made to watch that game, in its entirety, including ad breaks and Adrian Chiles, perpetually until they underachieve against Slovenia. And none of them should be allowed near the England team again.

[oldironside]

3. Beyond words.

I became really aware of football around the '74 World Cup. (Q: "Dad, why aren't England there?" A: softly, through gritted teeth. "Because they didn't qualify."

I've seen shite.

I've supported West Ham all my football life. That is a perpetual disappointment.

I've followed England in every tournament.

I lived near the Molineux for five years.

I had a mate who was a big Brighton And Hove Albion fan and I used to go with him during that season they nearly went out of the league (97-98?)

I know what it's like to watch 11 men who play like strangers who are learning the rules.

Even after all that, last night's England performance was the seventh circle under the pit of shite. Rabbits in headlights? Millionaires dreaming of their penthouses? Those boys we all knew at school - good at football, thick as a swine bi-product, and made multi millionaires overnight at 19 so they don't care about anything else? Take your choice. But if I was that shite at my job I'd be in the dole queue.

As a punishment the England players should be made to watch that game, in its entirety, including ad breaks and Adrian Chiles, perpetually until they underachieve against Slovenia. And none of them should be allowed near the England team again.

[B Whale]

4. Finally, it can be put to bed that the people need more money

to perform better at their jobs. A socialist football team would have quite clearly beaten algeria ;)

[realcrookswearsuits]

5. Have you tried watching France ?

They have been just as awful.

A game between them and England would be a real stadium emptier.

[oldironside]

6. The fact that the French are in open meltdown...

.. is about the only saving grace in the World Cup so far. Usually it's the Dutch having a civil war, but I can't remember even them plumbing the depths France have.

But I do agree with what you say about a potential England/France game. I honestly couldn't pick which of them is more inept. Maybe after they've both gone out in the first round we could organise a game to see which is actually worse. We could play it on neutral ground, in Belgium.

[LeftishBrit]

8. What with...

poor performances by a bunch of mostly-overpaid people; frustratingly close and indecisive results; ever-present threat of frustratingly narrow defeat; within-team squabbling and rebellions against the leadership - it sometimes seems as though, for England, the General Election is still continuing but has morphed into the World Cup!