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You don't know what you're doing!Euro 2008 England by Robbo Robson (U5722413) 22 November 2007   Are there any excuses? Some mild ones maybe. 'FA' just about sums up what these blokes know about footballDerek 'Robbo' Robson But before I scare the infant population of Teesside by throwing toys out of every pram in Middlesbrough, let's just take a deep breath and count to ten... four, four, two. Cos you know what, I don't really want to talk about the game. I want to talk about the academy of asses who arranged an extraordinary meeting on Thursday morning. Extraordinary is right. It's extraordinary how these blokes think they should still be in a position to sack someone else. If McClaren can be fired (from a cannon, preferably) for putting the wrong personnel in the wrong places, then how come Barwick's still got his ample backside wedged into a swivel-chair? 'FA' just about sums up what these blokes know about football. The 2006 World Cup effort was dismal, so you select a bloke who was intimately associated with it to carry on. He's a pleasant, feeble coach and Barwick says he was always his number one. Right, Bri, that'll explain why you were shuffling around Portugal after Big Phil like some spotty teenager after a holiday romance. But it's worse than that, isn't it? Wembley stadium was a pretty good allegory for the FA. A sodden mudbath of self-interest, ploughed up by money-spinning and downright bloody pointless flirtations with American football. To still see gridiron markings on the surface of our national game just indicates how important football is next to the cash-wallpapered offices of the FA. The friendly versus Austria, too. Why? Ridiculous. The arrogance of these people beggars belief. McClaren has said he takes responsibility for the failure (yeah and 2.5 million quid! Do we have to make failure such an attractive option?) And so the search begins for a successor and we've got the same people looking. The people who missed O'Neill and hacked off Scolari, and who haplessly played ringmaster to a disastrous media circus. A new manager'll be harder to find than Steve Harmison's boots. Mourinho's your man and maybe he's perverse enough to take it on. But enough of the (g)olden generation. There are young players who, given time, a good coach, and the permission of an absurdly deluded press pack, might be the future of the national team. Agbonlahor, Walcott, Young, Richards, Foster... If we don't get to the finals in South Africa, so bloody what? Give 'em a chance. But please, please, please can the current FA FO? Latest 10 commentsRead members' comments or add your own
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gbh (U1768436) posted Nov 24, 2007 Can you imagine how long overdue Wembley would have been if they'd been trying to put a roof on it as well..................!!
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lostTINYTIM (U10490736) posted Nov 24, 2007 the only thing i can say that it was not carson fault because the first 2 were a shock to him and the third was just unlucky. but the thing i can confirm is that the defence or the others did shine apart from philips and beckham...
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DoctorBoroLove (U8303026) posted Nov 25, 2007 comment by radiosnack
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krapnottarfevoli (U9228522) posted Nov 25, 2007 McClaren should not have been sacked because we lost. He should have been sacked because he walked into the tunnel with his tail between his legs as soon as the game had finished. He needed to shake hands with the opposition and he needed to go on to the pitch to console his players. He was a poor excuse for a team-player and should never have been involved with the England team, not even under Sven. It makes me sick that he gets a pay-off after having behaved so depicably.
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geragego (U6156986) posted Nov 25, 2007 All rubbish,
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krapnottarfevoli (U9228522) posted Nov 25, 2007 All rubbish?! Geragego, we didn't draw the game, we lost. And how can it be less than the manager's fault and those above and around him, when these players do perfectly well for their clubs (Chelsea, Liverpool, ManU, Portsmouth etc...) The premiership is competitive with Europe and we do pretty well in European club competition. Plus with Portsmouth and Arsenal players in the Croatian team, what is really the difference? We had the players but not the team.
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acerz (U3294332) posted Nov 26, 2007 England's national football team is NOT as good as the public so desperately wants it to be. Open your eyes- the sooner the better because you can only solve a problem if (and only after) you accept that you have a problem. That problem is that, much as British teams do well in Europe, the main stars in those teams are not British!
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JayBaba (U5411540) posted Nov 26, 2007 England does not have a golden generation of players. England has an overated bunch of average players. Only very few of them are above average. Same in coaching.Besides the playing quality in the Premiership is below what is obtainable in LaLiga, Serie A & etc.Premiership is exciting and fascinating but technically, it is weak. The English players however are good enough but the FA chose a man that could not mould this 'so called golden generation' into a world class team.
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krapnottarfevoli (U9228522) posted Nov 26, 2007 Lampard, Joe Cole, Gerrard, Crouch, Campbell, James, Rooney, Owen, Ferdinand, need I go on? They are all premiership first teamers and some of the best in the world. We may not have Ronaldo or Drogba, but we still have a potential winning England team. With the right team framework and management.
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