- Our players just aren’t that great. Pundits and commentators bang on endlessly about how our players ‘do it at the very highest level, week in, week out in the Premiership’, but that doesn’t take into account the fact that they generally play alongside better, more tactically aware foreigners who make them look good. Only Rooney can lay claim to the coveted mantle of ‘world class’, and even he has been very shit at international tournaments.
Virtually all our TV and a lot of our radio pundits are failed ex-pros who entrench the status quo by dumbing football down to their idiotic, cliche spouting level. Shearer is particularly a dick, but he, like most ex-pro pundits, is merely incredibly boring and lacking in any kind of insight. Robbie Savage, on the other hand, is the biggest penis in the whole world, and yet we’ve had to listen to him ranting on about who should be doing what on BBC Five Live more than can be considered humane during this World Cup. Why do we listen to these idiots? Most of them haven’t won anything in their careers, they just happen to be able to barely string a sentence together while a camera is pointed at them and for this they get large salaries and to still be a part of football. Why this is damaging to England is because it adds to the general level of footballing incompetence and ignorance that festers at the heart of our national game. Come the revolution, these smug, moneyed scum will be the first to receive a smacky botty.- Fabio Capello looks like Postman Pat
Steven Gerrard has about as much tactical awareness as an amoeba. There’s a reason Capello plays Gerrard out on the left; it’s because he mistakenly believes he’s put the romping scouse dandy out of harms way, but like a moth to a flame Gerrard wanders after the ball, whatever position you put him in. Gerrard is obviously talented, but his immense ego demands that he be at the heart of every England (and Liverpool) move. This leads to him abandoning his position and destroying his team’s shape as he goes looking for the ball. His drive and ability occasionally lead to him scoring incredible goals, but it comes at the expense of his team, and in the long run, it’s not incredible individual goals that win you things, it’s how well your team functions. Poor little Ashley Cole was repeatedly left facing two or three German attackers on Sunday because Gerrard had gone all Roy of the Rovers again.- Our coaching setup is an embarrassing joke. Only 2,769 English coaches hold Uefa’s B, A and Pro badges. Spain has 23,995, Italy 29,420 and Germany 34,790. That is ridonkidonk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/01/football-coach-shortage-england
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Agreed on all counts with exception of 4….At least Gerrard could be forgiven for trying to get into the (all) game(s). Ego? Are you for real, if wanting to run your bollocks off for your nation is the definition of ego then Rooney should be shot for treason as he did fuck all in this tournament. I thought we finally had a manager that would have the arsehole to bin a player who wasn’t fit / up for it which brings into play your 5th point. You didn’t need a coaching badge to see that Rooney was a spent force and was totally at odds with himself and the world. Not fit, not engaged, not mentally conditioned, not good enough. Hopefully he will come good in Thailand in a few weeks time and sell and shit load of shirts….Bunch of CUNTS. I will finally stop perpetrating to this gravey train of dogging, womanising, adulterating fuckwits (& not even mentioned the biggest prick of ‘em all, John Terry) by cancelling my Sky subscription but then I will miss out on the cricket and real athletes that play darts.
Agree on all counts except 4, too. Gerrard was ASKED to interchange with Rooney. He was following Fabio’s tactics by coming into the middle because they agree that’s where he’s most effective. I’ll agree, he left the left back exposed once or twice, but the person to blame for that is Rooney… When Gerrard comes central, it’s his job to drop to the left flank to maintain the shape. If not, Barry covers. Ultimately, it’s Capello’s fault for dreaming up such an unworkable strategy.
Oh, and Rooney is not our only world class player. He’s not even world class. He has NEVER scored at a world cup. He’s a good player.. he’s had a bit of a jammy season and banged in a few goals but now he’s been found out. He can’t operate at the highest level.
Same goes for Gareth Barry who was fucking woeful. If it was Stevie G playing in that position in that manner, he’d have been roasted.
Our best players were Stevie and that fat fuck Lampard. Apart from that, we’re SHIT.
Well said.England is just media hype.If the world cup was being played out through the
media,then England could be champions for 20 years!Fortunately,that is not the case.
Terry and co-keep on earning obscene salaries while playing in that totally mediocre league
of yours.Leave the World Cup to real teams,not pampered,overpaid,overrated,egotistical
English trash.
And England should give Capello a 25 year contract-he has done well.
englang are as much use as the goverment letting imagrants in as much as we let goals every 90 fuckin minutes and some