What has happened to consistent English strikers who were getting 20+ goals a season or close to on a regular basis, or at least getting a good goals to games coversion rate from one season to the next? I'm talking those over 10 years ago, like Owen, Fowler, Shearer, Ferdinand, Wright, Sheringham, cole.
Rooney is about the only one capable of that these days. The rest score closer to 10 goals than to 20 regularly, and maybe have the odd season where it's the opposite. Are they worse strikers than those aforementioned ones, and more like the equivalent of Kevin Phillips and James Beattie back then who had the odd good goalscoring season but mainly did anything else? Or has the game improved since 10 years ago, and players like Defoe, Walcott, Sturridge, Carroll, Bent etc look worse for it, when they'd be as good as the Owen's and Fowler's during the 90's?
There are certainly more foreign strikers around hindering the amount of talented English strikers. Though we are always told that the ones that make it should be quality because they have to get where they are among all the talented foreign players, yet then why are Walcott and Sturridge so poor and inconsistent most of the time?
Your thoughts?
English strikers - why not as good now?
posted on 8/1/13
Rob
Yea that probably wouldn't go down too well but he may not even know that if he didn't say that on here but it seemed you were pushing just a tad too much. I'm sure Wayne will come to appreciate your stand on the discussion.
I've really enjoyed this threat though. It has been good taking some of the viewpoints of others.
posted on 8/1/13
There we go guys
posted on 8/1/13
I appreciate Wayne's perspective but i am with Rob on this one.
posted on 8/1/13
comment by Darren The King Fletcher (U10026)
posted 33 minutes ago
Englishman are the scourge of the earth. I blame the empire.
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Indeed. I read an article last year which showed that out of 200 plus countries, Britain invaded over 180. Ridiculous.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html
posted on 8/1/13
Didn't realise it was that many! Interesting stuff.
posted on 8/1/13
I'm off home. Cya later! xx
posted on 8/1/13
"out of 200 plus countries, Britain invaded over 180."
and 19 of the uninvaded are new in the last 20 years
posted on 8/1/13
TKT, by the looks of it they've done it by region, which makes it all the more vast.
For example, invading the soviet union would be one country, but when it was disbanded they'd managed each bloody nation.
posted on 9/1/13
comment by Don Vito (U4098) posted 17 hours, 23 minutes ago
Keegan, Brooking, etc. were lauded and admired as pillars of English football
Beckham was lauded for how he looked in underwear
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George Best
In Marbella, bottle of vodka in one hand and Miss World on the other
Beckham was not the first footballer to worry about his image
posted on 9/1/13
Best may have been a style and fashion icon, but the huge sums of money Beckham earned from lucrative sponsorship and advertising deals are why I refer to him as a global brand. This potential earning power is the factor that sets the modern day footballer apart from players of the previous era.
Forbes sums it up well (Best):
"He was certainly among the first to reap the potential rewards on offer, coming on the scene after legal challenges to the wage structure had altered the economics of the game to put greater power into the hands of the players.Yet it's ironic, perhaps, that today, players who might be considered distinctly average can earn more in one season than Best earned in his entire career."