Eurosport - Fri, 11 Sep 08:52:00 2009
England's brave bid for glory faltered at the last with a 6-2 defeat by Germany in the final of the women's European Championships in Helsinki.
The Three Lions' campaign had been all drama leading up to the final 90 minutes, but there was to be no repeat as the Germans romped to a crushing win.
Despite the loss, coach Hope Powell can take comfort from the vast leap her team have made to qualify for their first major final since 1984 and will be looking forward confidently to the next World Cup in 2011.
It was game on straight from the opening whistle.
The masked Faye White denied Birgit Prinz when the German striker looked clean through and Fara Williams came within a whisker of opening the scoring with a free kick that whistled past Nadine Angerer's post.
But ultimately, it was Prinz who got the first goal on 20 minutes. The talismanic striker had failed to find the net throughout the tournament but when Inka Grings found her on the edge of the box, she made no mistake.
Germany doubled their money within minutes. Melanie Behringer was given time to pick her spot and she unleashed a 35-yard shot that flew over Rachel Brown.
Just when it looked like England might be overwhelmed, the Three Lions were back in the game immediately, Kelly Smith beating three German defenders before Karen Carney had the simple task of side-footing the ball into the empty net.
England almost levelled on 36 minutes when semi-final hero Jill Scott looked to have found the net following Carney's corner, only to be denied by Behringer on the line.
If England thought they had a platform for the second half, they were quickly blown away by a rampant Germany.
Within six minutes of the restart, confusion in the English defence saw Simone Laudehr hit the post before Kim Kulig fired home the rebound.
Smith gave England brief hope on 55 minutes when she angled a shot past Angerer from Carney's pass, but Germany restored their two-goal cushion when Grings headed Kerstin Garefrekes's cross beyond Brown.
She added another 10 minutes later.
A quick break allowed Prinz and Grings to attack the English back line and, after cutting inside White, Grings curled the ball beyond the English keeper.
When Prinz grabbed her second goal of the game on 76, it looked like England would be humiliated, but despite steadying the ship, they could only watch and admire as Germany again marked their territory as the best team in the world.
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I dont feel the same way about anyone else englands invaded your right, occupying Ireland was different from others though, in the sense that it was a lot harsher and more cruel than the rest of them, and unlike others it wasnt about greed this time......... and its impressed me the way the Irish have always stood up to it and never accepted it, Ireland was never for sale the way Scotland was
and sirstevejones you may complain about poles and muslims "invading" your country and taking your houses and jobs... but if you were educated enough to do so in the first place, you wouldn't be whining... second of all, while they "take your houses and jobs", they also go to the supermarket and buy food, go to the mall and buy clothes, pay for transport and petrol ETC.. so they do no harm to the economy..
and last time i checked the crime rate was high because of uneducated chavs and working class scum who think they own the world.
ammm i;m sure you felt the same way when you invaded hundreds of countries and told THEM to behave like YOU... hmmm Mark Palin??
get a fking brain you twa.t
people are actually falling for this BNP thing, give your heads a shake ffs.... your gonna put them in control of a massive army with billions of pound to play with, they wont be so kind mannered anymore then, you wont be worth anymore to them than the immigrants are, unless your funding them personally....... theyll send the army straight back to Ireland first excuse, cos they plan to invade the south and force them to be British again, Ive heard them say that more than once, Loyalists and the BNP have been in bed together for years planning it
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NO141
YOU DIDN'T EVEN INVENT HAGGIS WE DID !
To: inverkenny (comment 141).
Another bitter Scot....so I might as well adopt your pathetic and nationalistic attitude...here goes:
HOLLAND........ THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR KNOCKING OUT THE BITTER, MISERABLE, SECTARIAN AND RELIGIOUSLY ZEALOTED SCOTS.
Ah..that's better!...now England can look forward to the World Cup in South Africa....but never mind you can watch your crappy teams in your crappy SPL.
Have fun....ENGLAND.....FREEEEEEEDOM!!!!! (from the Scots).
Can I just say that the last comment 'Who wun the @#$% u war anyway so @#$% of back to auschwitz you nazi fukin scum nazi killers' must be from a highly uneducated person who probably does not know anything about war. It really scares me that idiots like this live in the world. I bet he is unemployed and lives in a grim council house in thr north of England and goes to Tenerife for his holidays!!
England was clearly the best team after germany in this tournament, respect. To reach a final everytime says that you did a great job. The first 60 Minutes the brits were very hard to play, but the fitness was one of the important differences. You lost against a team, that won everything the last years. Should be proud of your girls...
Slurr Steve Jones, have u counted your flocks of sheep yet? Did u wave to any? :-D Go back to your welsh farm u sad @#$%.
Thrashed.......LOL LOL LOL
Goodmorning,
it´s a bit sad to see after any match between germany and england the same comments about hitler and other racism things, in my opinion we all should be very happy and thankfully to live in a world without hitler and similar peoples. The three lions made a very excellent game and they would have also deserved to be european master! Great britan is concerning his history a typical country for imingrants, once the united kingdom ruled about almost 25% of the world it´s not right to call for deportation in bad times. In bad economical times like we have right now, we all should stand together and try to make the best we can, it´s less helpfully to start racism campaings against people with different ethnic origins!
To all thoose people who scream for deportation, we already had this in germany and we don´t want thoose times back.
So a last word about the game, it was great to watch, respect to the english girls and i hope your keeper Rachel is going on to play soccer, she just looks so pretty and beauty, i want see her still many times ;-)
You all have a good time !
regards
fred/munich
Yeah have it Fok u England
Glory Glory Germany &
Fok u Fok u England
Why is there a political broadcast by the BNP on the football blog? Doesn't that kind of demonstrate their stupidity. Oh and how does having third world immigrants drive up property prices? How will getting rid of these people improve our internal trade & export trade; the real source of jobs and a Country's wealth? Shouldn't this Country be proud that it opens its doors because everyone should have the right to live wherever they want to? And what is this mythical 'Britishness' that the BNP go on about & why are foreigners the 'cancer' that eats it? Do you have actual stats & a website you can visit for all these intriguing demographics that you brag about? And finally, instead of picking on some poor immigrant whose just trying to find a better way of life, why don't we deport all the nasty bigoted idiots with their simplistic racist solutions that wouldn't work and would just make us look like thugs to the rest of the world? That way we'd have a better community spirit hopefully leading to better work productivity and improving our export trade.
the bnp still miss the real issues the main problem with this country is millions wasted on the pompous rich prats that run this country all those in government are there to line their own pocketsand the politicaly correct brigade whose views are forced upon us. dont see anyone off the dole getting a job in politics do you . THIS COUNTRY NEEDS A CLASS WAR NOT A RACIAL ONE. THE RICH AND MIDDLE CLASS IN THIS COUNTRY LOOK DOWN ON THE POOR AND DO ALL THEY CAN TO KEEP US DOWN. THEY ARE THE ONES THAT STEAL OUR OWN MONEY OUR OWN PEOPLE ,AS LONG AS THEY LOOK GOOD WE CAN GO TO HELL.anyone who tries to climb the social ladder is soon put in their place . democracy and freedom of speech in this country no longer exist the only freedom we have is what the rich tell us we can have and that changes when they dont like something.TRUE ALL RELIGIONS AND RACES HAVE THEIR FANATICS OUR ONLY FANATICS ARE THE BNPAND THEY SHOULD BE BANNED. AND ALL OTHERS WHO TRY TO PUT THEIR VIEWS IN OUR HEADS SHOULD BE PUT IN ASSYLUMS . ALL RELIGEON SHOULD BE BANNED AS TOO MANY IDIOTS USE RELIGION FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL MADNESS. RELIGION HAS BECOME PERVERSE USED AS EXCUSES TO KILL BY MADMEN AND POLITICIANS TO CAUSE WARS. A REAL GOD WOULD NOT WANT ANYONE DEAD. MAN HAS USED RELIGION AND TWISTED IT FOR THEI OWN MEANS FOR FAR TOO LONG ,HISTORY SHOWS US THIS DO WE NEVER LEARN .
I love it! Germany win and that guy from the BNP 'sirstevejones1' has obviously got abit hot under the collar!!! Germany simply are better at football. They always have been and always will be. Germany is a better and richer country who make the best cars in the world. Their women are more sophisticated and better looking. Dont give the BNP any chance. They are racist and strange people!!!
I don't see anything racist about pointing out facts? Sir Steve is spot on! When in Rome do as the romans do... Come over here to live then live by the UK laws and don't try to change our country. You choose to leave the country of your heritage and culture then leave it there - don't try and bring it with you. Why did you leave otherwise?
remove the cancer from British streets vote BNP
Given current demographic trends, we, the indigenous British people, will become an ethnic minority in our own country well within sixty years – and most likely sooner.
All the signs are there:
- At least 84 percent – and likely more – of all current UK citizenship applications are from the Third World;
- Fourteen percent of all primary school children do not have English as a mother tongue;
- At least 316 primary schools in England have a large majority of children whose first language is not English;
- Non-indigenous births will soon account for more than half of all the babies born in Britain;
- Over the next twenty five years, immigration will account for forty percent of all new households set up in this country;
- Some 3.7 million legal migrants have entered this country since 1997 – and 2.5 million are from outside the European Union; and
- At least twenty percent of the currently resident population were either born overseas or are descendants of foreign-born parents.
The vast majority of these foreign-born residents are of Third World extraction. According to figures released by the Office for National Statistics, at least eleven percent of all people living in Britain today were born overseas. This figure does not include their second or third generation children.
All these facts point inexorably to the overwhelming and extinguishing of Britain and British identity under a tsunami of immigration. To ensure that this does not happen, and that the British people retain their homeland and identity, we call for an immediate halt to all further immigration, the immediate deportation of criminal and illegal immigrants, and the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by a generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question.
The BNP’s policy is to:
- Deport all the two million plus who are here illegally;
- Deport all those who commit crimes and whose original nationality was not British;
- Review all recent grants of residence or citizenship to ensure they are still appropriate;
- Offer generous grants to those of foreign descent resident here who wish to leave permanently;
- Stop all new immigration except for exceptional cases;
- Reject all asylum seekers who passed safe countries on their way to Britain.
Immigration is out of control. Britain’s population is now over 60 million and rising, solely due to immigration. Not only is Britain increasingly overcrowded, but the fact is that a country is the product of its people and if you change the people you inevitably change the nature of the country.
We want Britain to remain – or return to – the way it has traditionally been. We accept that Britain always will have ethnic minorities and have no problem with this as long as they remain minorities and do not change nor seek to change the fundamental culture and identity of the indigenous peoples of the British Isles.
The current open-door policy and unrestricted, uncontrolled immigration is leading to higher crime rates, demand for more housing (driving prices out of the reach of young people), severe extra strain on the environment, traffic congestion, longer hospital waiting lists, lower educational standards, higher income taxes, lower wages, higher unemployment, loss of British identity, a breakdown in community spirit, more restrictive policing, higher council taxes, a shortage of council homes, higher levels of stress and unhappiness and a more atomised society.
India would not tolerate millions of non-Indians taking over that society. Pakistan would not tolerate millions of Hindus or Christians entering that country and changing it from a Muslim society into something else. Japan would not do it; China would not do
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