I know this subject creeps up every time but thought i would start a fresh Debate. I really dread International break every season and just feel not only does it hinder my clubs progress because currently were on a roll with 4 league wins in a row but England bore me to death and that means a week without tottenham and Premier League football. Get's on my bloody nerves!!!!
I stated on here before that this attitude towards England and International football has not always been the case for me and probably many people aswell, I used to love England back in the Euro 96/France 98 type era during the Shearer, Sherringham, Ince days. Even when Michael own burst onto the scene but as the years have gone by i have lost interest in it as i just can't stand the current crop of England Players.
To me all International break does is disrupt our clubs prem season and usually result in players from clubs coming back with Injury. Who can forget the season when we had Defoe and Michael Dawson out for 3 months each after getting injured during international Duty. I know this would never happen but i would quiet happily be done with international football and just concentrate on the clubs year after year without having this annoying stop gap during a prem season. I don't like wishing life away but can't wait to finish this weekend already so we can resume back to premier league football, I'll probably have a few nights out over the weekend so it goes extra quick COYS!!!!
International Break......
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INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL
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Colonoscopy > International football
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I'm getting back into England again. It's good to see young players come through who despite all the media's negativity are actually quite talented. It think the future is bright
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I find i'm far more wound up watching Spurs than England and thats been the case for a long time. Maybe its an age thing and call me cynical but international football seems so ridiculous and the media circus surrounding it is infantile added to that its weird when non-football fans jump on the bandwagon every other summer and the nation goes mental for two weeks... At its best it is unifying for the country (Italia 90, Euro 96) but increasingly it seems irrelevant.
Good point above RE the Rugby WC but then we (England) don't have 18 months of qualifying to go thru - just cuts straight to the action.
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The trend is grim:
wc2010 - rubbish
euro2008 - rubbish
germany 06 - good
euro2004 - great
wc2002 - great
As ever more money/global fans flow into club football, it's bound to be the case that international football falls further and further down the pecking order. There's one pie, and the larger club football becomes the smaller slice left for the international game.
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From EURO 2016 the number of teams in the finals will expand to to 24, there are only 53 teams in UEFA so with that in mind whats the point in going through the hassle of having teams like Spain/France/Germany/Italy/Holland and yes (whisper it) England go through 15 odd months of qualifying - just cut to the chase, have a proper ranking system the top teams of which go through automatically to the finals.... As for friendlies take them around the country and keep the WC qualifiers at Wembley - with the WC qualifying groups have more group of death scenarios and less seeding - in 94 we had Holland which kept it exciting...