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Listed below are comments made by Invincible 49ers between Friday, 20th June 2008 and Wednesday, 28th January 2009.

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Good reasons to stay up late 4:49pm on 28 Jan 2009 Excellent News!

I believe that football highlights/goals should remain accessable to 'freeview' users.

With the inclusion of Sky Sports News on Freeview you can now see all goals from every competition too.

I would like to see more live football on terestrial freeview channels, but understand this is expensive.

Hopefully one day we will see a few live Premier League games on freeview as well.

The new system of Sky/Setanta is appauling for the consumer, as you now have to subscribe to Sky AND Setanta to see your teams games.

Glad Formula One is returning as well as I was growing tired of the add breaks.
Time for Capello to deliver 3:44pm on 04 Sep 2008 The sooner bloggers like yourself and other parts of the media, stop blaming the manager the better.

Alot of people need to wake up and smell the coffee. The players are to blame, they are on the pitch, but for some reason are seen as heros and world class, when they continuously show they are not.

People need to realise the England players are not as good as they themselves and others think they are. When the media stops 'bigging' them up it will help also. Without the tallent and flair of foreign players around them, and due to a shocking level of 'un-adapability' that seems to run through the entire England set up, they look very average.

The English players have only one (what could be described as) 'flair player' in Joe Cole. They lack close control, techniqie, passing ability (except Beckham), and their insight and vision on the pitch is dismal.

The best I have seen England player was against Croatia in Euro 2004 when, after being 1-0 down, we came back to win 4-2 with some beautiful and incisive football, cutting the Croatian defence apart with Rooney at the spearhead with his strength, power, technique and finishing ability.

Since then however, evertime England take to the field they appear to lack passion, enthusiasm for the game, attacking or defensive vision. Generally they look poor and at a level of incompitence that no manager could turn around. One of the worst and most infuriating factors being their almost universal ability to adapt to anything other than 4-4-2 and play anywhere else other than their 'prefered position'. With Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney being notorious for this, often ending in stroppy statements to the press by the players and by lack of commitment on the field. They lack the willingness and also the ability to get on with the job when they are told to play in a different position.

In order for England to challenge for honours, there needs to be a massive technical coaching programme from grass-roots upwards, along with an attitude from the manager and coaches that if they continue to stropp around casually then they will be dropped for players who want to wear the shirt and give their all. We have too many players who see England games as a holiday or short break from what they really care about (their clubs) and too often the blame is laid elsewhere for poor performance, by the media and by the fans.

We need to start holding the players to account and stop picking on easy targets like Beckham, because the tirade towards him from the media, when he appears to be the only England player passionate enough to deliver is shocking. Gerrard, Rooney, Lampard, Terry, and others must be scrutinised and held to account for poor performances for England. They should also be dropped if they continue to play badly.

The next England squad should include players like A.Young, Walcott, Agbonlahoor, S.Taylor, Hart, Milner. Players who play with passion and are young and who can play together for England for a long time to come, Ashton must also replace Heskey as 'the big man' upfront.
You Are The Ref answer and suggestions 8:27pm on 20 Jun 2008 So you gave a life ban for someone assualting a spectator.

Why in that case didn't Cantona get a life ban for karate kicking a fan?

Or does this 'life ban' only apply to the lower leagues where the players are not famous and there won't be as much of a fuss?

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