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Graham 'turnip head' Taylor = gash Terry 'lets pick anderson' Venables = gash Glenn 'people in wheelchairs are paying for their sins' Hoddle = gash Howard 'David Batty is class' Wilkinson = gash Kevin 'i've spent all my cash so i'll get back into the game' Keegan = gash It's no coincedence that when sven game along our results got better, but even with sven we could have done better imo. To be honest, it's amazing we got anywhere with that shower of shit. Sure, maybe english football at the grass roots level could improve a bit, but our footballers are not that far off and with a decent manager we could and likely one day will, win a major competition. |
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One of the big problems, at least until recently, has been the popular perception that England are a great team being held back by poor managers. In my opinion, they're not - for many reasons, a lot of them highlighted in this thread. They're actually a decent team that need a great manager to have a chance.
If England had the correct mentality and entered these tournaments in a well drilled fashion then they would have just that. Greece managed to win the last European Championships, after all. The problem is that the England players seem to have big egos; they go into these tournaments and key matches thinking that they're the real deal. You can see it in their attitude on the pitch and from their comments in the media. Most of these "smaller" nations don't have this same problem. The Greek players, for example, understood their limitations and because of this they were willing to sacrifice their egos for the team to win. This might not have resulted in attractive football, but the Greeks (and Otto Rehhagel!) understood that they didn't have the players to win playing attractive football. For the England players, with all their baggage, to develop this kind of team ethic you would need a manager who they would instantly respect. So not only do they require a top manager, they require a top manager with a big reputation too. Although even then I'm not sure that a player like Gerrard would be able to do it. And even if the FA did somehow manage to hire someone of that ability and status, there would still be teams out there with technically and tactically superior players. Which brings us back to the youth development issue again. |
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i've some limited experience of this as i was at the rochdale and blackburn rovers centre of excellence when i was younger. the reason i left blackburn, despite them asking me to stay on, was that every time i tried something different in training, they would stop the game and say "keep it simple. you're not going to get a chance to do that in a match". even as a young 14-15 year old i thought this was wrong. they should be encouraging players to express themselves, rather than stifling any creativity shown. |
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