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At least three German players have now distanced themselves from Franz Beckenbaeur’s derogatory remarks about England.
Could it be that his words kill the German’s challenge and inspire England to victory?
Imagine (if he were alive bless his soul) Bobby Robson accusing the Germans of being tired, not good enough, unable to pass a football, and a team that ‘lumps’ it forward just days before England play Germany.
What was the Kaiser thinking of? If England need a teamtalk then surely they just have to put Beckenbaeur’s comments up in the changing room. I’d love England to ram his comments down his throat – his words simply stink of sour grapes (from 66 perhaps) and fear.
England WILL beat Germany and you know what, I’d love it if we beat them by hiting a long ball to three or four ‘not-tired’ advancing midfielders in the last minute. Now wouldn’t Beckenbaeur just love that?
I thought he had a point with his first comments about kick and rush, certainly based on the first two games. Think it unlikely that he would be bitter over 66, given his subsequent successful career.
The second set of comments he made about England being ‘stupid’ not to win the group were a bit silly and unneccessary. After all, if you start criticising footballers for being stupid, you’d never stop
Good Morning Everybody from the Isles,
by the way, his, the "
Kaiser
"’s name is
Beckenbauer
.
We thank him his goal in GER’s first win ever vs. ENG (1:0 in 1968), and he helped to shoot out ENG in Mexico in 1970 in that legendary match.
He, Franz Beckenbauer, is a quite charming boy – of course not a man of
intelligencia
– but which football-player can claim this?
But here there were several comments that said: "
Let’s not win the group and take a draw against GHA to avoid ENG in the 2nd round, the US-team is much easier to beat
."
Over here Oliver Kahn is a revellation as an intelligent and charming football commentator – I didn’t like him as an active player / goalkeeper – but meanwhile he has undergone much progress to the better.
Have a nice day – (I hope) the better will win today in a high-class match.
[…and of course, in the end G. Lineker’s Shakespearean
bonmot
will prove true once more.
]I see the German fans have won the race to put their flags on the seats
Forecast : German win in 90 mins
I thought he had a point with his first comments about kick and rush, certainly based on the first two games.
Think it unlikely that he would be bitter over 66
, given his subsequent successful career.
The second set of comments he made about England being ‘stupid’ not to win the group were a bit silly and unneccessary. After all, if you start criticising footballers for being stupid, you’d never stop
Are you sure about that Andrew? Today he’s come out and said Lampard’s goal was "revenge for 66".
This guy has gone way down in my estimation for his comments during the last week or so.
He’s just having a bit of fun and enjoying Germany’s moment, and why not. He was right after all, about the kick and rush. In fact, it wasn’t even that good.
He wasn’t right at all about England being a kick and rush team. I saw no evidence of England just hoofing it forward yesterday. We tried passing it but we failed, that doesn’t make us a kick and rush team. We were awful yesterday, but that wasn’t by means of kicking it 60 yards up field all the time.
In fact, take a look at Germany’s first and fourth goals. You don’t get more direct than a huge punt forward from your goalkeeper/defender for someone to rush on to it.
But whether he’s right or wrong is slightly away from my point. My point is he’s an idiot, an idiot for making comments about other teams whilst his own nation are trying to win the World Cup. As I’ve said, at least three German players and the German manager distanced themselves from his comments and I bet their wishing he would just shut up. There’ll be something said about the Argies in the next few days I bet.
He’s had his time, he was a fantastic footballer and a great manager. But there’s a saying in this world that goes, "If you haven’t got anything good to say then don’t say anything at all". I doubt very few people are interested in what he has to say now unless he’s saying something good about the World Cup in general or his country. Criticising other nations is just poor.
You didn’t see Sir Bobby Charlton making comments to the media about Germany did you?
It was a goal kick, not a long ball from open play. That they scored from it merely humiliates England, and supports the kind of thing Beckenbauer was saying.
I remember Beckenbauer wore an arm sling during the other famous England v Germany encounter in the quarter-final of the 1970 World Cup.
Apparently he was then quoted as saying beforehand : "Ah, we can beat England easily – even with one arm tied behind my back… and a giving them a two goal lead into the bargain.
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