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David James...

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0le_Spain

Senior Squad
I read in a spanish paper's website that he made some critical comments about the football federation and that in their videos of France they didnt show Zidane taking FK's. WTF? thats pretty lame if he's using it as an excuse. Even if he saw the video he still wasnt going to stop it :rolleyes:
 
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mhflierman

Starting XI
He was going to stop it had he positioned himself properly. It really wasn't that an impressive free kick, it didn't even go in the side net, it went in in the middle of the left side of the goal, the corner James should have covered.
 
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0le_Spain

Senior Squad
Exactly, have some guts and admit you failed to cover the net properly. A lot of ppl critisize Beckham for being soft or worrying too much about his image but at least he was the first one to take the blame for missing the penalty kick which in my opinion is not the major cause for England losing the match but he still showed leadership by taking the blame and some of the heat off the other players that f'd up.
 
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Jacky

Senior Squad
it's just a pretty ordinary freekick that was on target and luckily it went in....coincidently in came after the 90th minute and this is why it became this spectacular....
 
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Bummy_JaB

Senior Squad
Yea I thought the free kick was nothing special. The cirumstances given though made it out to be. (90th minute against England.)

I think James is more to blame than Beckham if anything. WTF was he thinking on that free kick???? that could have been such an easy save. But he just stood there like he had seen Medusa.
 
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Amdy Faye

Senior Squad
Why was he standing in the middle though?

Also, did you see Beckham shouting to Ashley Cole 'GET ON THE POST, GO BACK, GO BACK' and as he went to, James shouted 'GO BACK!'

But I don't blame that, I blame James standing bang on in the middle, shouldnt he of gone more over to the right? Im no goalkeeper but I know the idea is to have a wall one side and the keeper the other. If the ball goes over the wall and in, all the keeper can say is fair play, nothing can be done in most cases if that happens.

But why?

And that's rubbish about Zouzu not being in any videos LOL. Where was he then?

And you don't need to study Zidane to know he's a top top class player who can change the game if you give him two seconds. It's pretty obvious he can smash a ball.
 
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Limberopoulos21

Senior Squad
zidane caught him cheating. David james should blame himself, not the federation. Seamen wasn't complain when Ronaldinho scored on him from a freekick. James assumed Zidane was going to lob it over wall to his right, then zidane puts it where James should have been before the kick. BAM! goal (or whatever emeril says).
 
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Jamboree

Youth Team
Zizou's free-kick was unstopable and James would have had no chance even if he had seen a video of all Zizou's free-kicks ;)
 
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Will

Senior Squad
The kick wasn't unstoppable, it was good but not that good. James positioning was bad and he made no real attempt to stop it.
 
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Help?

Fan Favourite
lol, some newspaper wrote James DIDN'T add 'What i can't understand is that he doesn't score freekicks on my playstation". :D
 
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Spurs4Life

Starting XI
Originally posted by snoppf1
da easy option is put robinson in goal
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I think they are choosing him because of experience, but he is such a liability. Paul Robinson deserves his chance and would do a far better job.
 
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valioso

Fan Favourite
the goal was amazing.. 99% of freekick takers would have try to loft the ball over the wall on the upper 90.. Zidane went across the wall where the keeper wasnt expecting it with a lot of pace and very good placement..
 
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Payaah

Starting XI
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/euro_2004/england/3811089.stm

FA defends Zidane video

The Football Association has defended the video which they produced to help David James against France.
"There was no footage of (Zinedine) Zidane's free-kicks. I'll have to have a word with whoever put that together," England goalkeeper James revealed.

But an FA spokesman said: "We taped all France's recent games, and highlighted all the significant set-pieces.

"The fact is there were no free-kicks by Zidane during that period that were at all threatening."

Zidane's stoppage time free-kick against England drew France level at 1-1, before the Real Madrid star added a penalty to complete their 2-1 victory.

Butcher's view:
France's free-kick menace

James admitted: "We watched the compilation tape of France in the build-up to the game to look at their set-piece plays, corners and free-kicks."

However, he was left unprepared for Zidane's moment of magic.

It's been one disaster after another and the FA are striking me as rather rubbish

From SMS
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Four years ago, Zidane did score with a free-kick in the last European Championships in Holland and Belgium, curling in a shot in the quarter-finals against Spain.

France coach Jacques Santini compiled video tapes of recent penalties taken by not only Beckham but also his potential stand-in, Michael Owen.

"I got the team to watch countless video tapes of Beckham and Owen taking penalties," said Santini.

"Beckham always hit them to the left, normally lower but always to the left."



James could of saved it if he was in a correct position.
 
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lplover2k2

Senior Squad
I really don't think Robinson is better than James;he let a lot of goals go in in Leeds ;several of them look pretty stoppable.he's not as good as he was long ago
 
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henry#14

Starting XI
Originally posted by valioso
the goal was amazing.. 99% of freekick takers would have try to loft the ball over the wall on the upper 90.. Zidane went across the wall where the keeper wasnt expecting it with a lot of pace and very good placement..
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exactly, it was one of the smartest freekicks I've seen. james was in a bad position, so Zizou whipped it across the wall.

you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Zidane is very dangerous from any sort of set piece. lousiest excuse i've ever heard:rolleyes:
 
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Vagegast

Banned for Life [He likes P. Diddy]
Am I the only one that thinks James is a terrible goalie? I can forgive him the FK, it was tricky and unexpected. But his tackle was unnecessary and he dove way too soon when Zidane took the PK.
 
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