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Please, if you have a spare moment over the next few days, e-mail the man who said we were killing the National team... Just as a reminder!

We done City lads tonight!

Here is that article - has to be one of the worst ever written:

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/columnists/v ... the-teeth/

Fantastic, I remember reading that at the time and thinking it would come back to haunt him.

"I would like to thank Roberto Mancini for lending england his team, City are the future."

Thats BBC's Mark Bright on Twitter - as for Woolnough, bout time he got a few letters and emails.

I believe six on the pitch at any one time is a record for England - can anyone confirm?

david yearsley wrote:I believe six on the pitch at any one time is a record for England - can anyone confirm?

the dippers apparently once had 7, according to tyler.

i am guessing:

jones, mcmanaman, fowler, james, gerrard, redknapp and, erm, someone else. collymore? did he ever play for england? barnes? beardsley? oh, could have been ince.

david yearsley wrote:I believe six on the pitch at any one time is a record for England - can anyone confirm?

Equals Ron Greenwoods first game as Manager 7.9.77 v Switzerland would you believe.
Six Liverpool players...Clemence, Neal, McDermott, Hughes, Kennedy, Callaghan
Seven if you include Keegan, who'd just joined Hamburg.
Nearly!

Bianchi on Ice wrote:

david yearsley wrote:I believe six on the pitch at any one time is a record for England - can anyone confirm?

Equals Ron Greenwoods first game as Manager 7.9.77 v Switzerland would you believe.
Six Liverpool players...Clemence, Neal, McDermott, Hughes, Kennedy, Callaghan
Seven if you include Keegan, who'd just joined Hamburg.
Nearly!

Well I checked it again and thats wrong it was Arsenal pre-war with seven.
We are still ruining football!

unfortunately scum had 7 in 2001

citytilidie wrote:unfortunately scum had 7 in 2001

All on the pitch at the same time - in a competitive match?

david yearsley wrote:

citytilidie wrote:unfortunately scum had 7 in 2001

All on the pitch at the same time - in a competitive match?

I wasnt going to mention it, but to be honest I didnt know until I scrolled down. wes brown.

If you are a young Englishman looking up at City’s first team then your future is cloudy.

Sorry AJ

david yearsley wrote:

citytilidie wrote:unfortunately scum had 7 in 2001

All on the pitch at the same time - in a competitive match?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 248312.stm

even still, that was 9 years ago.. shows how times have changed

Just a gentle reminder of what sheephead said

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/columnists/v ... the-teeth/

For one big reason why England fail so consistently at the World Cup and European Championship, look no further than Eastlands.

Manchester City have so far spent more than £60m this ­summer and all on more foreign imports. Their outlay could be close to £200m by the time the new season starts. No doubt City fans are excited and can’t wait for the richest club in the world to open their cheque book again. Yet this is spending gone mad and to the detriment of the ­English national team.

After the debacle of South Africa the usual cry went up for the introduction of new English talent. Get some young players in to replace the tired old failures! Where are they? Pushed to the back of the queue by clubs like City, who, it appears, have no ­interest in allowing home-grown talent to develop. (HOW MANY ENGLISHMEN ARE IN ARSENALS 25 BTW???)

Take the deal that has persuaded Ivory Coast’s £25.5m midfielder Yaya Toure to leave Barcelona and head for the Premier League. He didn’t want to quit Spanish football and even said one day he would like to return to the Nou Camp. The deal thrown at Toure was just too good to turn down. Not surprising, is it, when you are offered a basic salary of £185,000 a week rising to £221,000.

Let’s get one thing straight here, Toure is not worth that kind of money. He is a good player, that’s all. Not a world-class talent and will certainly not be in the top ten players in English football next season. So, why have City thrown the Crown Jewels at an okay player? I have no idea.

They have also signed David ­Silva from Valencia for £24m and Hamburg’s Jerome Boateng for £10.5m. We can only presume these players have only come for the money. What City are buying are good players to take them to the next level and that is the top four of the Premier League. These are not players to help them win the title.

You wonder how much a week they would pay Fernando Torres or others who are regarded as the best? The mind boggles.
There is nothing wrong with ambition and yet we get it so wrong in this country. Why can’t we develop our own talent and bring forward English players who might just help us win something in the future. City have got so many players that some will have to be sold.

Micah Richards, who needs guidance, is likely to be discarded and there is not even a guarantee Gareth Barry will get into City’s first choice side. If you are a young Englishman looking up at City’s first team then your future is cloudy.

Does the game care? Sadly, only a minority. The fans who turned on England after South Africa will soon be back to where their heart really belongs. Club football. Ask a City fan what he or she would prefer over the next two years. Their club to win the Premier League with a side packed with foreign players or England to lift the European Championship?

There is only one answer, I’m afraid and it isn’t England. The FA’s director of football Sir Trevor Brooking had to go cap in hand this week to persuade clubs to allow their Under 19 players to represent their country. How embarrassing is that. Shouldn’t this be compulsory?

English clubs were actually considering withdrawing their young talent from the European Championships tournament that could be vital to the future development of the national side. Other nations would have encouraged their players of tomorrow to go and take part. In the past two years Germany have won the European Championships at Under 17, Under 19 and Under 21 levels and that, I’m afraid, tells the story.

We only worry about the national side when tournaments are on top of us. When there is failure the outcry starts and nothing happens. It will be the same in two years’ time and beyond. After what happened in South Africa, the England team is at rock bottom. We are a laughing stock. How many people care? City supporters will not mind who wears the shirt next season just as long as they move higher.

Going the other way is the ­England team.

Whats his email address_

If I were a comedian looking for material for the Edinburgh Fringe...That piece would be brilliant.

I suppose that Woolnough has already forgotten he wrote that shite. It probably served his purpose at the time and he considers football fans too thick to remember what he said.

Found his Email address:

brian.woolnough@dailystar.co.uk

Fire away!

My message to him:

6 City players on the pitch for England last night... dear oh dear it's a good job that you obviously like food, because that is a lot of humble pie you will have to eat.

Cannot wait for your next story that ends up like eggs in your face.

My email has been sent, everyone should ensure they fire one off to him to let the prick know that what he writes is utter shite.

Fish111 wrote:My email has been sent, everyone should ensure they fire one off to him to let the prick know that what he writes is utter shite.

Done. Sent a few home truths to that gobshite

email sent