'Gormless' Strikes Again and Its Not with a Girl
By Sven's A Gorm
October 8 2005
Its hardly any wonder that Sven 'Gormless' Eriksson has no energy on an England match day, to show the passion on the touchline that every football manager in the world does - from grass root level to the Professional game - 'cos he is too busy expelling energies elsewhere. Just ask poor old Nancy
How the bleeding hell can that man sit there when the press, media and fans, yes fans are calling for his head? Yet again he sat in the dug-out at Old Trafford this afternoon as calm and placid as can be, while his 'sidekick' Middlesbrough's Steve McClaren was up and about barking out the orders, no doubt fed from the 'Gormless' one himself. Seriously folks has Gormless got any passion in his Swedish bones? After the debacle in Northern Ireland, prior to that the unconvincing victory in Wales and then the 'nightmare' in Bacon land you would have thought that the 'Gormless' one would have turned his coat inside out, taken off the tie, got his tracksuit on and earned a tad bit of his £4 million per year England contract. Pace up and down the 'kin touchline. Gesture with your arms in a windmill fashion. For Christ's sake, do more than blow your bloody nose every two seconds and why not shake the hand of the ref who was conned into sending off your Captain only twenty minutes or so earlier. Yeah why not Gormless. Premiership managers today would have wanted to chin the so-called man in black. I really hope that FIFA take a look at both of David Beckham's offences this afternoon and rescind each one. If they don't and Beckham does have to serve his suspension on Wednesday night, at least another 'hot-head' Wayne Rooney can play on the right and hopefully lift his team mates to a better performance than shown today. To finish on the point, I really hope that FIFA throw the book at that Austrian Hotdogsperger or Frankfurtsperger or whatever his name was and ban him for life for simply 'cheating.' Another thing that bleeding annoyed me and its not being biased I can assure you. When DB got sent off who did he give the Captain's armband to? Michael Owen and then when he was subsituted, instead of Peter Crouch (and that is another point about Gormless which will be covered shortly), who got the armband then? Steven Gerard. No disrespect. MO and SG are truly great footballers and SG is Liverpool Captain but when you have got 'the future' England Captain doing what he does best not just for Chelsea but the cause of the Three Lions, how come he was ignored? Only one word springs to mind and that is seniority. Gormless if you have any ounce of sense in your stupid thick Swedish head, make John Terry CAPTAIN for Wednesday night. You will have a leader that will fight for the cause, he will be your Lionheart and he will rally everybody around him to beat the Poles and 'nick' the group from them. If we play against the Poles like we have played in the last three games they will beat us no doubt and the result in Prague this evening will be so so so important. (If the Dutch beat the Czech Republic tonight, England will automatically qualify for the World Cup). No disrespect to Peter Crouch. He is not International class. To have Michael Owen substituted in front of him was just plain 'Gormless.' I know that 'Gormless' had to make changes to compensate for DB's sending off and minutes later Sol Campbell's hamstring injury, but to bring Michael Owen off instead of Crouch was nothing short of 'Gormless.' At least Owen troubled the Austrian defence. Won the penalty which was supremely and confidently converted by Super Frank and then Owen should have had another penalty minutes later which was more clear cut than the first. Stat for you - Although harsh, David Beckham became the first ever England player to be sent off twice. Latest England QUALIFY for World Cup 2006 Czech Republic 0-2 Holland RESULT