To Benjamin and Shouga, are you both able to name the starting IX for the cricket and football teams as well as the starting XV for the rugby squad of your country?
Rooney, Beckham, Gerrard and Owen?
I know Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen are two of the opening players in the national England cricket team...I wouldn't be able to name ALL of the 15 forward players on the rugby squad, there are too many names to remember them all.
I've never seen it written as 'starting IX' and 'starting XV' before, and only understood once I realised you meant the 4 opening footballers/cricketers and the 15 forward rugby players.
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When names such as Wayne Rooney or Andrew Flintoff or Johnny Wilkinson are bandied about, do they even ring a bell or they might as well be complete strangers to you?
Great!! You know Alastair Cook. Quite a talented opening batsman if he can become better against balls which are bowled around the wicket.
But Beckham has fallen out of favour with McClaren so I doubt he'd ever make a return to the national squad. Moving to LA would not rejeuvenate his career; it'd only cement his status as a celebrity rather than a footballer. _________________ Hillary Clinton is an acquired taste which I have clearly yet to acquire.
Great!! You know Alastair Cook. Quite a talented opening batsman if he can become better against balls which are bowled around the wicket.
But Beckham has fallen out of favour with McClaren so I doubt he'd ever make a return to the national squad. Moving to LA would not rejeuvenate his career; it'd only cement his status as a celebrity rather than a footballer.
Yes; Beckham seems incredibly overrated to me. Here, we seem to hear more about his location and life and family than we do about his actual footballing skills.
I think we need some new blood on the England squad!
Competitive eating, David? If that were a sport, I think fast cars and women should also be a sport.
Well Shouga, there are quite a number of promising English talents rising through the ranks. Of course, we cannot talk about promising young talent without mentioning Theo Walcott in the same breath. I think he's only the same age as both you and Benjamin and he has already earned his international cap. Imagine that!
Aaron Lennon is another young hound who has been blooded by the old manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and who continues to enjoy the confidence of both Martin Jol at Spurs and Steve MacClaren. His speed at the wings would be an invaluable asset and despite Tottenham's poor spells recently, he is still a menace to the full-backs.
I am going to stop myself before I go overboard and start acting as if I know better than a real football manager. I must remember that playing Championship Manager does not make me an actual manager. _________________ Hillary Clinton is an acquired taste which I have clearly yet to acquire.
Last edited by Loic on Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:42 pm; edited 1 time in total
Frederik, you must be the only croquet player under the age of 25 in the whole wide world.
lol, in Norway croquet is a family game played in the garden on lazy summer afternoons. _________________ Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen. = Those who don't know foreign languages, know nothing of their own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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