Tom Thorpe been named captain of the England U19′s for the European Championships which kick-off tomorrow in Estonia.
“I was very honoured and pleased that he asked me,” Thorpe said. “Hopefully I can lead the team and show an example. It was a bit of a surprise to be honest, I wasn’t expecting it at all, but I’m honoured and we’re just ready to get started now. I don’t think it changes how you play and there’s a few players who have experience of it in this squad, both with England and with their clubs as well. It won’t change much on the pitch for me, we will have three or four captains out there. I’ve done it before at club level, I was captain when we won The FA Youth Cup and that was a great experience.”
England play Croatia tomorrow, followed by Serbia then France. Thorpe’s United team mates, Sam Johnstone and Michael Keane, have also been included in the squad.
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Great stuff. Comeonn Thorpe boy. Win the cup .
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Good show for the lad. Good to be recognized for your leadership ability as well as footballing ability.
Good luck and bring home some hardware.
For those who don’t know who thorpe is, He was one of our vita played who helped win the F.A Youth cup. Excellent defender. Have seen him in action. Lad has a great temperament but needs to improve physically. Thats the only thing which is stopping him from appearing for us is his physique.
AlphaRS: go to this link for more info
http://www.manutd.com/en/Players-And-Staff/Reserves/Tom-Thorpe.aspx
Thorpedo!!!!
Never fucking heard of him, which is sad in a way now that I have no access whatsoever to the reserves and youngsters
Anytime i see the name thorpe, ian always crosses my mind. What a swimmer that bugger was!!
Nice one Tom. Captained our Youth Cup winning side.
King Eric
How are you mate? You need to keep blinded fuckers like my self more up to date with goings on at youth level……..I always look for your updates on the subject, now get your finger out of your ass and do more updates
Congrats Tom.. Wasn’t he the one who scored the 2nd goal against city in the Manchester senior cup final?
Well got to hand it to Spain. Their first half showing was similar to how Barca cut us open at Wembley. Look at the medals Xavi and Iniesta in particular have won. 2 Euro’s, World Cup, 3 Champions League, titles, copa del reys, club world cups. Fair play to the lads. Alba looks a right player but he came through Barca’s youth ranks to start with! Love the way all the cunts who labelled them boring are now changing their tunes. Fickle bastards. The thing that makes me nearly vomit is the fact that tranny cunt has won the Golden Boot. Lineker was like a fucking nonce last night banging on about his kids. Jug eared cunt.
Ha. Love the way Sky Sports viewers have given toff cunt Hart the keeper of the tournament,.
Anyway to be honest glad these Euro’s are over, just couldn’t get into them. Not a fan of Internationals.
Cedars – Ha ha. Good my friend, how are you? First time been on here since Friday dinnertime.
King Eric
I am ok thanks, hope Wee Tom is coming along nicely and of course regards to Ruth….
Like you I am not a fan of internationals however these Euros were half decent and good for some banter……Still I cannot stand the sight of Platini though, fucking hate him with a passion
Cedars – Yes good thanks mate. Thanks alot for asking like you always do. Oh I absolutely detest that bastard Platini.
King Eric
Always from the heart my friend………….
Remember when Juve knocked us out in (84 was it?) Robbo pissed all over that dick head Platini over two legs
Cedars, never heard of him, u kidding me??? You are one of three four people on this board bossing everyone and communicating all the United thruths. As for Thorpe, I just wonder if he is a tad slow to make it at United.
Having said that, Robbo simply pissed on anyone in front of him, made Maradona look average and single handedly raped shit out of a great Barca side
Vilhelm28
Yes pal, since moving over two years ago I have had no access to MUTV, therefore to access to youth or reserve team action
Well done Thorpe dude. Good luck for the tournament
Cedars- if in doubt ask king Eric , he’s always up to speed re youngsters .
Good for the lad. I wonder how long it will be until the FA decide to screw him over somehow.
Off topic. I’m so sick of the Spain wankfest. Sure I’m not alone
Honest confession – if only we had beaten those bastards on at least one of the Cl finals, I wouldn’t have hated them as much as I do….
Rafael new contract confirmed by the club. 4 years. Hopefully this season can see him cement the RB position. Should be his for years, IMO.
Jeet
Good on you to come clean mate…….
Redbilly @ 13:50: ” I’m so sick of the Spain wankfest. Sure I’m not alone”
I’m sure you’re not alone. Up until yesterday they were boring – playing in second gear – BUT, yesterday was a different proposition; they significantly upped their tempo and played a much more aggressive game.
They were good value for the win BUT, to me, it was disappointing to see how the FootieGods frowned on the Italians.
First, Prandelli didn’t use the 3-5-2 that had worked well in the first game against the Spaniards.
Second, Chiellini was clearly not 100 % which enabled Cesc to round him and pass the ball to Davide Silva for the first goal.
Third, Cassano got into a great position and then meekly stroked the ball through the defender’s legs and directly to Casillas. In contrast, Jordi Alba didn’t miss when he was put through on Buffon for the second goal.
Fourth, Antonio Di Natale, who has scored something like 100 goals in the last three years in Serie A, missed not one but two great chances – first, the header went over and then, when he open and had time a few feet from the goal, he also meekly stroked the ball to Casillas.
And, fifth, taking off Montolivo and replacing him with that thug, Thiago Motta, badly backfired when Motta’s hamstring popped after two minutes on the pitch.
Game, set, match – the last two goals were candy floss but having scored four has given the “knowledgeable” revisionists reason to claim that Italy couldn’t live with Spain – watching the game I had a different understanding of what was taking place. There was an eery sense that I was watching the 2009 CL final in Rome all over again – but with different teams.
Shit happens – yesterday the Italians found out that sometimes the sun does shine on the same dog’s back twice.
I think that the Spaniards have made a pact with the devil. Sure, they’re good – they’re really, really good – but they’re not THAT good !
@Cedars: While I genuinely hate the diving shit, the imaginary card waving, and the excessive tika-taka, I wouldn’t have had such a hard time openly acknowledging how good they are….but TWO Cl final defeats are a bit too much for my stomach… frankly, I sound very bitter, but every damn thing they win makes me hate them a little bit more. Just like the ABU I guess
@Denton: “Game, set, match – the last two goals were candy floss but having scored four has given the “knowledgeable” revisionists reason to claim that Italy couldn’t live with Spain – watching the game I had a different understanding of what was taking place. ”
The first half seems to have been much more balanced than what the scoreline indicated. But them going up by 2 was a killer. Subsequently, they just sat back, strangled the wind out of the Italians’ lungs, who by now HAD to be desperate, and merrily polished off the scraps on the counter.
Jeet
Lift your spirits mate, we support United……Win lose or draw we have something that no other club in the world has………We have history, culture and a way of living………We are UNITED
Look up pictures of Sir Bobby smiling and having a laugh, worth 10 CL trophies if you ask me
True that
“Look up pictures of Sir Bobby smiling and having a laugh, worth 10 CL trophies if you ask me”
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Can you imagine if one of us came across a Scouser saying “Look up pictures of Ian Rush smiling and having a laugh – worth 10 PL titles if you ask me” – we’d have a right fucking laugh, and rightly so.
Trophies please, not complacency. Let’s constantly cultivate new laurels, not rest on our old ones.
@kanchelskis: Right about Ian Rush, but I might understand it if they said the same about Shankly… in fact, I think part of the cancer at pool is the fact that they seem to have jettisoned all their values (which I assume they had a long, long time ago)…agree about your focus on laurels, and resting on the past – but I’m sure the values need to stay…
kanchelskis
I see where you’re coming from, but for God’s sake never make an example with anyone along side Sir Bobby, least of all Ian Rush………I agree with you though, winning is what’s its all about……However, is it why we love United?
Rafael just signed a new deal. That’s good news. Now get back and defend you little twat!
@Cedars
Of course, no comparison between Rush and our Bobby, but they wouldn’t see it that way. It’s an attitude thing. If something appears unachievable, how do you react? Do you retreat into your history and do your best to convince yourself that it makes your current failings (such as they are) irrelevant? Or do you stand up and try and make the unachievable achievable? The latter is the attitude that SAF has ingrained in the club, and it must never, ever be lost.
And you’re right, we love United for so much more than the winning. But we must never let our love for all the other things make the winning unimportant.
Sneijdergate Part 2: This time it’s Ganso.
Apparently United are ‘on alert’ (another fun media phrase) because the ‘superstar’ (and another) player has turned down the latest contract offer from Santos. Obviously Anderson will be going the other way in a swap deal. The only snag is Chelsea are preparing to ‘gazump the deal’ (one more) with a 50m pound swoop.
kanchelskis
Of course it will never be lost mate, my point came from a passion driven stand of view, something that our history carries…..Watching Sir Bobby’s tears flow as we win is something I would trade for any trophy….That was my point
Would NOT…………damn typos
Cyril – superstars don’t “turn down” deals – they “snub” them
Jeet – We need someone with programming experience to compile all of those phrases into an automated football article generator. We could make millions selling it to the tabloids.
Why pay some chump 20k a year to write it when you can have it in seconds at the click of a button?
Every season we can charge them more for an upgrade pack that includes the names of all the latest “hot properties” or “starlets” (two more for the phrase book) and latest generic pricing targets and warchest info.
As a bonus, it could also generate a generic article featuring Harry Redknapp claiming that he tried to sign the player but it wasn’t possible.
Cyril – LMAO @ the Redknapp bit
so whats the story on pogba? 1-jul and his contract’s up..when is he fking off to juventus?
Cyril Sneer @ 14:52: “This time it’s Ganso.”
Signing KagawaBunga has made Ganso irrelevant.
@Denton
Spain did play better in the final in fits and starts but also reverted to type for periods of it. Much like every team but Portugal (and to a degree the Italians in the first game) , Italy last night seemed to go out on the pitch as losers. The tactic especially was just daft as the defenders became redundant as the game was being played in front of them and the 4 midfielders were always gong to be outnumbered by the 6. They were almost playing a 0-4-2 the way the defenders were unable to get into the game As you mentioned the 5 in the middle they went with in the first game would have handled the 6 much better.
A bit more guts and belief like Portugal showed and I’m not sure Spain would have won without being more offensive over longer periods than they did so last night
Congrats to Tom Thorpe and the other reds in the U19s!
Also congrats to Giggsy and Tom Cleverley in the GB Olympic squad.
Hope Giggs goes all the way since he hasn’t had many shots at international glory.
Wakey @ 16:50 – I agree with all that you wrote. The media wankfest about Spain is on adrenaline. The post-match revisionism – which seems to happen all the time nowadays – is like the media frenzy saluting ManShitty as “worthy winners” – on goal difference !