How's the conversation right now? Linesmen? or something deeper?
Just for the record, I suspect that you, like plenty of others, are in knee jerk territory right now. I thought that this England side was on the slide, I just didn't expect it to collapse so quickly.
These are still good players, although quite a few will probably call it a day internationally, and up until two weeks back, we all thought that Capello was great. Reasons? Could be one or a mix of several. It's a strange one.
And before you get dragged into how we don't teach our kids properly, that's an argument that's only half true. We lack top coaches nationally, but for every local set of kids rigidly sticking to a long ball game with 9 year olds on a full size pitch, there are other local sides brimming with tricky players, comfortable on the ball, often attached to clubs who are teaching youngsters the way that the Germans and Dutch do. There will be stars again, there's just a dearth in the current 20-30 year old age group. Platini's home grown plans will help as well. It'll all be fine again. Honestly.
Feeling better? Don't give up on football just yet, or England; just visit this site every day so that you can enjoy the world game with odds and ends from everywhere, right across the globe.
IBWM can't fix the English climate, or guarantee English success, but at least you'll know who these Johnny Foreigners are before they tear England apart next time!!.......Mesut Ozil anyone?
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Pretty funny after all the shit you talked, that it was the U.S. which was at least partially responsible for the sending home of the "Overated Generation" by winning the group. Do you still think they don't belong in the competition? What does that say about 2nd best England? Face it, England play caveman football, you invented the game but you didn't have any hand in perfecting it. Long hopeful balls and a cowardly 8-10 man in the box counter-attacking mentality. Here's a news flash for you, the only reason English players look so good week in and week out is because of their foreign born team-mates. The game has simply passed England by, and a nation that would rate Wayne Rooney even close to Lionel Messi has to be the most delusional on the planet. How does it feel to realize you really know nothing about football? Because surely you must face that realization now. God save the Queen.
I know, what am I like!.......but lets just bear in mind that I was never backing England in any of that.
I was making the point that when USA have to face a qualifying group that involves travelling to the likes of 2-3 from Russia, Croatia, Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Sweden, Finland or Ireland in their own backyards in order to qualify then I think we can draw direct comparisons.
Englands problem is that it wants the best national side and the best club sides too, something USA don't contend with.
So thanks for your comment anonymous, I agree wholeheartedly with a lot you have to say; however if you want to have a pop at the English, I'd say you're on the wrong website.....I'm from the North of England which is so far removed from the England you refer to that you wouldn't believe it.
Sorry for the delay in responding, I was in the middle of watching Mary Poppins......
to be fair to jethro he never rated england's chances. england were rubbish, the usa weren't far behind them. what's the problem?
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