posted Mar 29, 2008

I am not saying that Capello should be sacked, but I am surprised that England haven't gone for a Scottish manager before.

Scottish managers understsnd the British game and have the advantage of being able to speak English.

In the premier league it is the Scottish managers that are most represented nationality .at the top of the league (two in the top five)and have historically dominated the English top flight.

I think the best thing about Scottish managers is that they bring a level of tactical astuteness combined with a strong element of motivation. Two things that England need.

The only thing that I can see stopping this is national pride, but if the FA have already flirted with Swedes, Brazilians and Italians then waht more pride is there to lose?

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posted Mar 29, 2008

"The only thing that I can see stopping this is national pride, but if the FA have already flirted with Swedes, Brazilians and Italians then waht more pride is there to lose?"


You obviously don't understand the rivalry between Scotland and England! Or at least they like to think it's a rivalry

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posted Mar 29, 2008

Lampard must play as a link with rooney as he will guarentee goals, put gerrard in the centre with barry/hargreaves and joe cole and bentley on the wings with rooney/crouch upfront

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posted Apr 1, 2008

Can I just ask why people blame englands poor performances on too many foreign players in the English League?

Surely its because of these foreign players that the english league is the most talented league in the world. Get rid of the foriegn players and you've got a rubbish league where all OUR top players have to go abroad to play at a high level.

Or am I just mental???


I don't think you are being mental.
However at the commencement of the Premier League when UK club performances in Europe was about equal to now only some 20% of players were overseas imports.
Which meant that the home nations had 80% of the players to choose from.

Now if the figures I have seen are correct this percentage has dropped to around 30%.

With less than half the number of players to choose from it doesn't seem unreasonable that this has had an impact.

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posted Apr 1, 2008

"Surely its because of these foreign players that the english league is the most talented league in the world. Get rid of the foriegn players and you've got a rubbish league where all OUR top players have to go abroad to play at a high level."

Yes it is because of the foreign players that the EPL is so good. But that quite obviously means there are less Enlgish players playing at a high level. It is harder for players to make the break through into the first team and players then end up dropping down a division.

Obviously you can't just get rid of the foreign players, but I don't think it would do your league, or national side, any harm if there were less foreign players in it than there currently are.

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posted Apr 15, 2008

I love xenophobia. Obviously, the foreign players are not the problem. England players don't play on the streets, which is where brazilian kids learn to handle the ball and pass with accuracy and do the Cristiano-Ronaldo tricks.

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posted Apr 17, 2008

Add character, resilience and commitment to the any team you can make out of England from their present crop of players, you'll have a winning national team.

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posted May 9, 2008

In Australia, they made these facilities to keep the boys off the street, they played rugby and did training there and everything. Also, youth crime went down. I wonder what would happen if we did that here?????
quite honestly, walcott, rooney, lennon, and Antol Ferdinnd are our only hopes for the future.

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posted May 15, 2008

ok it's a while since this match and basically a load of old tosh has been written by the press and fans alike on this site, England on their own are a pretty mediocre bunch of players who are lucky to be anywhere near the top 30 at the moment, which funny enough rules them out of the Euro 2008 tournament on that count alone.

Fabio Capello is the best there is and the press, pigs if you like or so called journalists are writing more tosh every day on how England are going to be great again and then when we play a friendly against France we are a bunch of losers not worthy of the shirt. Just like the fans journalists are a very fickle bunch who dont know when to heap praise or scorn, they all basically bay with the crowd if we lose and jump up and down if we win.

England will improve but not yet, these are very early days trying to learn the Italian way of not losing but Fabio will get it right so get behind the England team as we try and get it right for the World Cup in 2010.

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posted May 26, 2008

Phil McNulty Wrote:
"Wes Brown should not survive at right-back. He is not international class in a position that is not his natural home. This is not a personal criticism, it is a statement of fact."

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Hey I'm no fan of Wes Brown but he has been fairly solid at RB for United this season and gets forward too - I think it was him who set up Ronaldo's goal in the CL final. Anyway, personal criticism or not, it is still your opinion and it's a bit bush-league for a sports writer to claim that his opinion is a statement of fact. Leave that sillyness for the messageboards.

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