After suffering that garbage last night, I'm finally done with the England football team. 40+ years of hurt and all that, I can't take anymore. Anyone else feeling the same today?
Disappointed at the easy way we accepted defeat, or the lazy bunch of cnuts who call themselves professional footballers accepted defeat. Woy never had a clue from the onset and still didn't on his final game. The English football team are a disgrace and for me they should be paraded around all the cities they live and play for so we could chuck rotten garbage at them etc hurl abuse at them so they can actually get a grip on reality, bunch of ****ers, the only one who came out with anything positive i thought was Danny Rose.
I just don't care about England. The only time I ever got emotional about it was Euro 96 I think, when I was a bairn? I then lost interest in football completely until I was about 20 / 21 years old (6/7 years ago), got interested in Sunderland again but I've never given a stuff about England since. Not sure why, really.
I now get the same dissatisfaction from England losing at football than I do when they lose at cricket. Very little. I'm like 'aaawww....typical......oh well' In fact I have a bit of a chuckle at the over reactive fallout from another England fiasco! Its difficult to get behind England when everybody from the FA down to the players just don't really give much of a ****, if they do they don't show it. Them players looking devastated on the pitch last night I'm sure was just for the cameras. It was embarrassing.
You've got it all wrong. When the majority of England voted to leave Europe, Woy didn't realise it was for the European Union. He thougt they meant the European Championship. He set his game plan in motion last night and it worked!!!
Simply couldn't care actually had a wry smile when I saw the result. Like our chronic under preparation at the start of last season I could see the wheels coming off weeks in advance. I'm not some footballing mystic just a realist. I think both failures were easy to spot and subsequently predict. But with both England and Sunderland there are a number of fans who either suspend their own disbelief or simply have no idea about the sport they watch religiously and roll out the ever depressing keep the faith attitude when in reality it is more than acceptable and in most cases necessary to point out and question such failings in preparation.
These shock results are no such thing, as has been said they have been predictable since we last won in 1966. The media set players up as world beaters if they have one good game in the Premiership and the young'uns go on and believe it. We've has a succession of managers who frankly have not been good enough and I go back to 1966 again in that respect. Am I bothered about us losing, not in the least, I cannot for the life of me understand why any supporter would waste their hard earned cash to watch this shower at home and especially not away, how much have they spent this,summer in France.
They were 34th in world rankings Take out S American teams and a few Arican ones. It could and did happen. Up the eskimos
I'll always care about England. It's where I'm from and I'm fiercely proud of that. We fail at football, but for our population we probably do about right, the expectation comes from within, we are all part of our own issues, both sporting or otherwise. The magnificent achievements of our tiny little country, a country that's invented, that's changed, that's developed such incredible things is part of our eternal flaw. We absolutely believe we are better than we are, that will never change and thus it is what it is. I will always support my club and country and it will always hurt when they fail.
I feel the patriotism but not the pain, it felt like nothing to me, as it was expected that we'd disappoint. My theory was that we'd have a good go at the bigger teams, I dunno why, perhaps cos I watched United play like that all season, struggling against the smaller teams. Experimenting with the team 4 games into a tourney, beaten by a Minnow that'd kept the same team for all 4 games.
We have had bloody good teams at rugby, at cricket, have had wonderful golfers, runners, athletes, boxers. In fact, we've had success in almost every sport in the modern era apart from football. I honestly believe we have enough talent in this country to be knocking at the door in major championships. We used to do quite well, and then the Premiership came along. However, I do think its more complex than just foreign players taking the place of English players.
It's nothing to do with foreign players, they've improved ours. It's nothing to do with 'long hard seasons'. Only Germany play less games. It's to do with The FA, and there 'the way we want it' approach. Yes man managers, exorbitant costs for coaching badges, poor support at grass roots. They did a wonderful job of marketing our league and credit to them. They give no ****s about football.
I'll still be watching their next qualifier. I'm used to the disappointment. My other team inflicts it on me most seasons..
1990 World Cup was why I fell in love with football as an eleven year old. I wouldn't recognise the 37 year old who doesn't really care about the England team!
I felt exactly the same this morning. During the game I was just getting very frustrated at how bad England were. Yet i wasn't shocked or surprised by the result. It's the fans who paid a lot of money to go and support England that I feel sorry for.
