I'm watching the streaming of the germans' latest destruction job on yet another victim ( they lead Belgium 3-0 ) and I must say that England have a lot to do and a long way to go to reach Germany's level.
The World Cup quaterfinal last year certainly proved so.
Despite reaching the semifinal of the 2006 WC and the final of EURO 2008 ,the german federation still decided to basically form a new team with younger and fresher talent and the result was another world cup semifinal in 2010 (not to mention a perfect record in the EURO qualifiers ).
This begs the question why do England always have to rely on a bunch of players who have proven time and again that they just DO NOT cut it in international football?
One or two of the current England players even played in the 2002 WorldCup!
Germany
posted on 11/10/11
Don't drop Terry, people drop him for the sake of it because he's oldish and considered part of the 'old guard' when in reality he's probably still England's best defender (Terry is in excellent form while Smalling and espically Jones still make naive mistakes and need experience)
I would also drop Cole and just bring Baines (starting) and Bertrand (back-up)
posted on 11/10/11
because the old dogs in the FA, want to stick to tradition.
Whole of football is moving foward technically and tactically. England stuck in a time machine of pace and power.
Remind me the last team that england actually managed to outpass. I cant remember the last time!
Montenegro, Belarus, Mexico, Egypt all outpassed yes we beat some of them, but it showed us up how dated our coaching is. These are against teams with a tiny fraction of the FA's budget. But they just want to build bigger and faster players.
posted on 11/10/11
-----------------hart-----------------
smalling--jones----cahill---cole
---------parker----wilshere------
young-----rooney------johnson
------------welbeck---------------
--> that's what the england line up should look like for euro 2012!
posted on 11/10/11
Except Richards for Jones, Smalling at CB, Terry for Cahill, Baines for Cole, any decent CM for Parker and Sturridge for Johnson
posted on 11/10/11
BritPlayersDontDive (U4080)
Montenegro, Belarus, Mexico, Egypt all outpassed yes we beat some of them, but it showed us up how dated our coaching is. These are against teams with a tiny fraction of the FA's budget. But they just want to build bigger and faster players.
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You say our coaching is dated and also named 4 teams that out passed us but you failed to mention we beat 3 of them and drew with the other. Arsenal out pass most PL teams but have you seen where they are in the league - not forgetting it's been 6 years since they've won anything.
Pass, pass, pass with no end product - Alla, the four teams you mentioned and Arsenal, is not what i hope for!
Germany have the right mixture of pass, power and speed and that's the reason they'll be waving us goodbye, come next summer.
posted on 12/10/11
Dont England have Spain soon in a freindly?
Should be interesting.
posted on 12/10/11
and Portugal... very interesting!
posted on 12/10/11
England vs. Spain
Sat 12 Nov 5.15pm
At last a friendly with appeal
posted on 12/10/11
One or two of the current England players even played in the 2002 WorldCup!
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To be fair, Klose still plays..
posted on 12/10/11
All this talk about England...and comparing it to Spain and Germany, or any other nation is useless. England is England. What works for Spain or Germany may not work here for one reason or another.
If England want to improve, then England need to develop a system that is English. The Dutch have their style, Germans theirs, Italians theirs, Spain became successful after years of underachieving thanks to Barcelona (core Barcelona team is the core of Spanish side, so no wonder they do so well).
The Germans reinvented themselves and made a style suiting them. England should try to do the same. It's not all about flair or midfield generals (some teams may need them others may not, it all depends on the team).
And one thing I think England need to do is make sure the whole team doesn't rely just on one person.
I personally think flexibility when it comes to players and styles will help England. The problem is the players. They do not seem to "gel" well for one reason or another. It could be because England don't play the best team but the best players, which is not what a team sport is about really.
Anyway, being English and abroad, when England put in a sucky performance I have to take comments about that ****.