rach 1 Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 Does anyone know if the England friendly against Portugal is on SkyP at all? Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 IT SURE IS!! Took a bit of finding this one (I have been looking today as well), and its not on the usual channels, but: - Thursday morning, 6:05am - 8:25am - Fuji TV channel no. 739 (Sky Perfect) Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted February 17, 2004 Author Share Posted February 17, 2004 You're ACE Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites
Bowler 0 Posted February 17, 2004 Share Posted February 17, 2004 excellent time to have it on!!! i can wake up, watch the game and have just enough time to get to work. beaut. but that cant be broadcast live can it? must be a repeat from earlier eh?!!! Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 No, it's live! 6am here is 8pm Portugal, right? (?) You're welcome rach, glad to share. Link to post Share on other sites
Bowler 0 Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 I think portugal is currently the same time zone as england. that'd make the game start at 9pm in portugal (if it starts at 6 here). unless its played in the azores which is 10 hours behind! that'd be 8pm. is that right? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Hmm, don't know without checking - whatever, at least "nearly live" Link to post Share on other sites
rachael 0 Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 How about a haircut before the friendly, Becks? Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted February 18, 2004 Author Share Posted February 18, 2004 DEFINITELY rachael. Link to post Share on other sites
nori-chan 0 Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Is this recent photo? I prefer before look with shorter hair. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted February 19, 2004 Author Share Posted February 19, 2004 In typical style, it seems the England team is falling apart again... Link to post Share on other sites
Xer 0 Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 I've lost most interest in intn games, especially friendlies like this. They're just not a "team" in any real sense of the word. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 Is it being repeated? I dont fancy getting up at 6am thank you! Link to post Share on other sites
Bowler 0 Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 by the way, did the checking and it seems that the game is live. cool eh. kick off 9:15 GMT (kinda late). checked the team on the BBC. Eriksson says he'll pledge to pick his first-choice 11 to start. how does everyone think they'll fair? portugal wont be no walk over at home i dont rekon, and not in one of their new stadia. i'll go for a dull 1-0 to the portugese. Link to post Share on other sites
blinkin'ek 0 Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 He'll pick his first choice 11 (minus the half dozen crocks or watching-the-missus-give birth absentees), then swap the whole lot of them with even less well-known dudes at the beginning of the 2nd half. And we'll lose 0-2 after being mesmorised by Ronaldo's wonder moves: Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 Quote: The duo of Southgate, 33, and King, 23, would not even be England's third-choice pairing. -------------- Eriksson puts subs on from the start Withdrawal of John Terry forces new-look England defence Richard Williams in Faro Wednesday February 18, 2004 Ten years and a footballing lifetime separate the two men who will be called upon to provide England with a central defence in tonight's friendly match against Portugal, the first of four such fixtures before England return to the western flank of the Iberian peninsula for the finals of Euro 2004. On learning that John Terry had made a late withdrawal from the squad shortly before their departure from London, as a result of the leg injury suffered in Chelsea's FA Cup match on Sunday, Sven-Goran Eriksson intimated that Gareth Southgate will be marking his return to the team by inaugurating a partnership with Ledley King of Tottenham Hotspur. The duo of Southgate, 33, and King, 23, would not even be England's third-choice pairing. But in the absence of Rio Ferdinand, Sol Campbell, Jonathan Woodgate and Matthew Upson as well as that of Terry, Eriksson has been forced into the position of making a virtue of necessity. He is adamant that these matches are valuable because they give him 45 minutes to look at his best line-up, and another 45 to assess the claims of outsiders. Today he will issue a team sheet including a sixth-choice centre back who has spent the season playing as Tottenham's defensive midfielder. Eriksson will be hoping that King's international experience with the Under-21 side will provide him with the confidence to confront some of Europe's most skilful and dangerous forwards. "The partnership will be completely new," Eriksson said, reflecting on the fact that in any event Ferdinand's lengthy suspension obliges him to find a new combination. "I hope to have all of them available for the next match in Sweden and the two games after that, apart from Ferdinand, of course. And if they are all there, I have some ideas about what to do." Once again, however, tonight's result will be of less significance to Eriksson than the manner of the performance, individual and collective. Having lost their last friendly, at home to Denmark, however, England will be hoping to come out of the match with some sort of boost to their morale. Eriksson said last night that he hopes Josef Blatter, the president of Fifa, will change his mind about a decision to restrict coaches to the use of a maximum of five substitutes in friendly matches, due to be announced next week. There will be at least five second-half substitutions tonight, and possibly up to 10, which will inevitably reduce the competitive significance of the evening. England's coach, however, is unapologetic. "Some of these players have played three matches in the last week," he said, "and some of them will be playing again on Saturday lunchtime. In the Premier League in January and February there are so many matches that the players can't even practise. They warm up and warm down, and that's it. It's not good for football." Portugal are coached by Felipe Scolari, who was in charge of Brazil when they inflicted the only defeat suffered by Eriksson's England in a competitive fixture during the three years of the Swede's tenure. That, of course, was in a World Cup quarter-final. "You need super-fit players if you want to beat Brazil," Eriksson mused, having been drawn into a discussion of that painful night in Shizuoka. "They are better than we are at keeping the ball. Even when they had 10 men in the second half, we were running, running, running to keep up. And when we did get the ball, we didn't have the force to do anything with it." He was criticised at the time for failing to do enough to invigorate the players at half-time. Did he accept the responsibility? "If you are the manager, you accept the responsibility every time you lose, draw or win. I can't blame someone else, and when we lose I always accept the criticism. "Michael Owen was not super-fit. David Beckham was not super-fit. Steven Gerrard and Gary Neville were not even there. But it's very difficult to leave Owen and Beckham out. If I had to play the game again, I would play them from the start." England had erred, he said, in playing "too optimistically" in the period before half-time, when they conceded an equaliser. "I should have told them to stay in their positions," he said. "I did tell them, but unfortunately it was too late." Beckham received treatment before departure yesterday morning but was declared fit to play by his manager, who feels that he has no need to give him a run in the central midfield position that the captain favours. "I see him playing there every Saturday or Sunday on television," he said, "and if that's what we need, I'm sure it will not be a problem." Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 It should be good to see Ronaldo and Beckham trying to outdo each other (albiet from opposite flanks). Actually I think Ronaldo must have seen that little animation of him, cos I actually saw him do a different trick the other night! Link to post Share on other sites
cakehead 0 Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 So how was it then? Did Ronaldo do his tricks? Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Hardly worth getting up for, thats for sure. Why does Owen never seem to do the biz in friendlies?? Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Hardly worth getting up for, thats for sure. Why does Owen never seem to do the biz in friendlies?? Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 bridge looked good. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted February 24, 2004 Author Share Posted February 24, 2004 and thats about it hey, bobby12! I can't say I'm overly optimistic about Euro 04. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 I'm getting sick of Owen, he has been average to crap for the past few years but still he commands a first team place in England and Liverpool. Bring back Sheringham and Shearer I say!!! Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Kop slide? http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/sporttop/c...-name_page.html I know what you're saying, Shearer still has it I wish he'd reconsider. But not sure I agree on the Sherringham part. Owen will stand up and be "before-when-he-were-good-Owen-ish" (maybe, probably), come E04. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Liverpool are a mess at the moment, Hoolyay is gonna go soon surely. As for Euro 04. Well miracles can happen, I suppose. Link to post Share on other sites
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