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Videogames blamed for England defeat

Stereotyping abound, as video gaming is blamed for yet another unfavourable event.

The assistant manager for 'popular' football (that's soccer to the yanks out there) team Bolton Wanderers, Chris Evans, made the bizarre claim that England's national football team lost their recent qualifying match because of video games.

Most of the English team are in their late 20s and early 30s; hardly the typical age for hardcore video gamers. And hey, if they're going to stereotypically blame video games, how about blaming the stereotype of the "play boy" life style these professional divers lead?

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resistance100 - 755 days ago

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What a poor article. And yes the BWFC coach makes a good point. Video Games although they themselves havn't coursed the england defeat directly (a poor manager did) they have effected the amount of people who are taking up the sport at younger ages. Alot of kids now play computer games rather than going out and playing football in there spare time. This has effected the amount of people coming through the training system and thus there is less and less new young england players each year.

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'Most of the English team are in their late 20s and early 30s; hardly the typical age for hardcore video gamers. And hey, if they’re going to stereotypically blame video games, how about blaming the stereotype of the “play boy” life style these professional divers lead? '

Shows how little he knows and has taken the wrong approach to what was said. He seems to think video games has effected the actual current england players, when that isn't true it actually has effected some of the people who COULD be england players right about now and that could have made an impact. Also calling football players divers and claiming that they all have 'play-boy' lifestyles shows that he doesn't give a dam about the sport anyway and thus will always show a negitive light towards the sport

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Anyone who disagrees, can you please do it with a reason rather than just click disagree cheers. (i suspect i will get alot of them and lose alot of bubbles aswell for my view)

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toughNAME - 754 days 22 hours ago

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its one disagree...calm down

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Eagle_of_Heaven - 754 days 23 hours ago

2 - looooooooooool

this is a joke man...blaming my lovely video games for the stupidty of the england team. we lost just because the boys thought it will be a stroll in the park kmt. media+england footie=total shate

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hopper_papa_roach - 754 days 23 hours ago

3 - Dont blame lack of funds?

Why don't they blame it on the fact that they havent put enough money into football academies in this country Brazil spend the most and have some of the worlds best players.

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PimpHandHappy - 754 days 23 hours ago

4 - Screw the English

they dont even have many good soccer players. Look it up. They have Rooney and thats about it.

They will be lucky to even make the world cup

The Premire League is made up of non english players

David Beckman is a bum

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xg-ei8ht - 754 days 22 hours ago

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screw the english, thats a good start.

Maybe you've forgotten that we did win the world cup, ok along time ago, but we took germany to pieces, and yes they were a good team.

Croatia had good passing ability, and lets face facts, both of their goals were kinda lucky, both blunders. But hey you get what you deserve when you play poorly.

Had another keeper been in goal, result would be diff, but as i stated below, i feel a change in the air, and about bloody time, too many old pricks running the show. And thats where the problem lies.

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resistance100 - 754 days 21 hours ago

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@PimpHandHappy

lol

Im sorry when you have world class stars such as Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, John Terry, Rio Ferdinland, wayne rooney etc we have every right to expect alot.

Still the fact you call it soccer, can't spell beckham right and more its probally true that you don't release good football players when you see them.

@redninja

True facts there, gald to see the back of him

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Xbox is the BEST - 754 days 22 hours ago

5 - They

lost that's it.

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xg-ei8ht - 754 days 22 hours ago

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There is not enough home grown talent, its as simple as that, nothing to do with managers,games,little devils or angels on your shoulder.

There are decent english players, but they are not all in the premier league, and yes your correct, most of the players their are not english.

Look at arsenal, best team skillz wise,points wise, by a mile. The title is theirs for the taking, why, because they know how to play football the way its meant to be played, kinda like brazil, holland a few years back.

If your talking managers, best i've seen england was when glen hoddle was at the helm, but they ditched him, not because of results, but because of beliefs.

I'm english through and through, but when a team is not good enough, they aren't going to win anything. I'm hoping, this will be a harsh lesson for england football wise, because this country needs it.

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redninja - 754 days 22 hours ago

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They lost because Steve McClaren is an idiot.

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Kigmal - 754 days 22 hours ago

7 - they lost

because they suck, if they were good, they would of won, end of story. stupid article.

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Kick The Ass - 754 days 22 hours ago

8 - Mayday, mayday... Fanboy war INCOM---

And now, ze big kvaestion of d00m, which game did they play?

PES, FIFA, Sensible Soccer?

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Gina-get-u - 754 days 21 hours ago

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English footall has sucked massive arse for years even before the advent of video game systems. 99% of the posters in this forum were born after the last time England won the World Cup, which I daresay wouldn't even have happened if England had not the benefit of home field. If a scapegoat is needed for England's continued futility, might I suggest the gene pool? I say do what France did. Build your entire squad from immigrant talent. Then perhaps it may have a chance.

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PimpHandHappy - 754 days 20 hours ago

11 - Hey im not saying screw the English

im just saying screw there soccer teams and screw Ricky Hatton

ahhhaahahahah

im really pulling for Ricky

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PimpHandHappy - 754 days 20 hours ago

12 - btw

i love the English style of soccer

long balls to the foot of a winger is truley nice

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Itachi - 754 days 20 hours ago

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don't you mean striker who plays long balls to wingers anyway

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Itachi - 754 days 20 hours ago

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England lost because of McClaren
i bet sven is laughing in Manchester

how we wish for three quarter finals now

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bourner - 754 days 20 hours ago

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shiit managers is what has done it . look at the game on wednesday , we played one upfront and a goal keeper who haddent played before . and they say its down to games wtf ????????????

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resistance100 - 754 days 19 hours ago

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Not to mention use a formation which hasn't been used before

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tonsoffun - 754 days 19 hours ago

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perhaps it was because England were sh!te and deserved to be beat....

I dunno maybe it was just me...

But at least the Scottish boys put on a relatively great performance all round, they were pipped to the post, but they made a great effort...

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Grinchy - 754 days 11 hours ago

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they still lost, whether pipped at post or not.

If they had been playing video games maybe they would of learned some co-ordination and would of been able to pass the ball!

I didnt watch the scots, but what kills me is we always get ourselves back in the game, and then sit back!! I hate that tactic, and you know when we do it, it is never going to work

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vaan - 754 days 15 hours ago

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We lost to Croatia and did not qualify...
..... because we're crap.
That's it.

Get the Foreign player ratio down in the Premier League or expect more years of 'crap' in the future. Things need changing in our game from the ground up. This 'long ball' mentality when things are not going right just kills me.

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felman87 - 754 days 14 hours ago

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of course blame the entertainment media instead of taking responsibility. Adults need to grow up.

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Neurotoxin - 754 days 11 hours ago

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The reason why England didn`t qualify is because the football team is a joke, The players have no spirit and do not work together like many other teams do. For example Croatia, Their team hasn`t got big name players, but they went into the match wanting to win more than England did, Its as much Steve Mclaren`s fault as it is the players. Playing for your National side is not a Privilege its an Honor, and when you do play you should put your Absolute best into keeping your place in the squad as the Football Fans Heart`s and minds are resting on their shoulders. Its got nothing to do with computer games, its to do with Lack of Confidence and lack of Motivation.

.....That and if Robbo had been in goal he wouldn't`t have spooned the shoots. ;)

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Fluffy2Duffy - 754 days 10 hours ago

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Blaming the video games? it's a pathetic article!England have never played good soccer in years and it's all about money!!!!So stop blaming games and let us enjoy our games!!

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Vip3r - 754 days 10 hours ago

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Can't England just admit defeat? Scotland lost (just ;) ) and we don't blame anything for it other than Italy being the world chapions and being a better team.

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gololo - 754 days 4 hours ago

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they lost because they lacked love for their country...look at how teams like argentina play...argentina have super-stars in every single line but what puts them above the rest is that they fight for every ball, they love their country and they show it by working their asses off...in the other hand, england's team became a little bunch of "stars" that want to follow Beckham's path to Hollywood stardom (who cares if he gets schooled in the MLS, he still gets a huge check)...imo get rid of all these "im too good to be here" players and bring new people that will likely put more heart and effort to gain a place to represent their country at the national level...

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jinn - 754 days 4 hours ago

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Croatia is just better

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MC_KOOL_K - 753 days 18 hours ago

23 - england are s**t enough said

whats next blaming the bumpy bus journey to the stadium

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