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What a massive salty wanker he sounds like. As if Shearer didn't score against bottom teams or even Rooney
Hope Kane tells him to fuck off next time he sees the jug-eared bottox prick
Kane was talked up as one of the best strikers in the world until recently, now he scores cheap goals for England?? Lineker is just jealous, and apparently in real life is an absolutely arrogant piece of shit.
He's a salty wanker who thinks is trendy and relevant cause he wears sneakers in the TV Studio and also knows Kane will soon smash his shitty record
Love harry but it's been clear after the ankle injuries his mobility is on the decline. Agree with some on here that probably needs players around him to step up but I cant judge him on international qualifying games as the opposition are mostly top half national league standard. Biggest thing for me is that england play with pace and width which stretches the pitch for harry. For two years spurs teams have been extremely narrow and like others have said our fullbacks have awful end product. He doesn't have to press or work the channels against pub teams in qualifying as england have 99 percent of the ball. With his mobility now questionable I think he should drop to 10, have sons pace and mobility at 9 to stretch teams and sess and lo celso either side. I'd defo try that at home against the lesser sides
Trippier's delivery is exceptionally poor
I agree with the sentiment, but funnily enough he has just scored 5 goals against Montenegro and Kosovo, who didn't exist in Shearer's day.
Nobody cares about Owen or Rooney.
Edit: Just seen the Lineker comment.
No, he had to knock them in against San Marino, Andorra and Scotland!
They did exist as part of Yugo block - unless the implication is there are extra games now because there are more teams
For comparison - in Euro 2000 qualifications -there were a total of 49 teams participating
Today there are 55 - so that's 6 news teams only winch is around 0.5 per group which is negligible really
Here's some of the great opposition Shearer faced
WC 1994 Qualifiers
England
Norway
Netherlands
Poland
Turkey
San Marino
WC 1998 Qualifiers
England
Italy
Poland
Gerogia
Moldova
Euro 2000 Qualifiers
England
Sweden
Poland
Bulgaria
Luxembourg
So in every group there were 2-3 dog shit teams as there are today
WC 1994 Qualifiers
England
Norway
Netherlands
Poland
Turkey
San Marino
WC 1998 Qualifiers
England
Italy
Poland
Gerogia
Moldova
Euro 2000 Qualifiers
England
Sweden
Poland
Bulgaria
Luxembourg
So in every group there were 2-3 dog shit teams as there are today
Here's Shearer's record for England:
And here's Kane's:
It can be argued that around half of Shearer's goals are against really weak opposition while the same could be said about two thirds of Kane's goals. I don't think it's such a great difference.
Lineker's comment was unwarranted in any case.
englandstats.com | 1040 Alan Shearer (1992 - 2000)
englandstats.com | The England International Database. 1040 Alan Shearer (1992 - 2000)
www.englandstats.com
And here's Kane's:
englandstats.com | 1207 Harry Kane (2015 - 2023)
englandstats.com | The England International Database. 1207 Harry Kane (2015 - 2023)
www.englandstats.com
It can be argued that around half of Shearer's goals are against really weak opposition while the same could be said about two thirds of Kane's goals. I don't think it's such a great difference.
Lineker's comment was unwarranted in any case.
Worth looking at Bobby Charlton's scoring record and noting how few were against top level opposition...
Soviet Union probably the best team in that list
Soviet Union probably the best team in that list
Luxembourg in the 60s must have been massive...
Lineker is a crisp shagger.
Well of course.
I don't know about Shearer but I seem to recall about 20 of Rooney's goals were against minnows or borderline minnows. It's just the nature of international football.