I still believe marra that when you pay a teenager £100,000 + a week they begin to think they are better than they really are. In my opinion too many of the England players go onto the park looking down on opposition players as they think because they earn more (than most) & play in the best league in the world (apparently?!) they have a god given right to win games. The FA will continue to appoint a 'yes man' who in turn will pick players because they are at a 'big' club regardless of if they play regularly or not. Who's to blame for the latest debacle?? Players?... Partly. Manager?... 100%. FA?... Absolutely !! Will it ever change... Not bloody likely
At present, Joe, Hennesey,Ash, Ramsay, Bale, Gunther and Jonny Williams walk into the England team. As the saying goes, your only as good as your last hame.
Here we go....we have a quarter final match tonight and all they are talking about is England England England and they have gone home....They should be talking about tonight match and the teams who are still in the tournament....
At present, yes. Clue is in the word 'present' Dai, and no it's not the things you stick under an Xmas tree
Only bale would ever be considered imo and even then they have players that can rival bale for the strikers job......if only they had a manager that can make a team out of them....
I see my name in dispatches again by the English patient?..................... The English have had to watch their national football team leave the 2016 Euros in infamy after losing to Iceland, the smallest nation ever to play in the tournament, in a shambolic 2-1 defeat in Nice on June 27th. and the whole world laughed their socks off.......Some may call this a “double-Brexit”, but the graveness of the first contrasts with the risible absurdity of the second. England's second departure from Europe was a mix of catastrophe and dark comedy. The England fans’ hubris ahead of the game against Iceland, promptly followed by total disaster, is surely at the heart of why the world is still laughing. How humiliating was England’s loss? Iceland has fewer inhabitants—just 323,000—than Leicester. Its population is smaller than Britain’s net migration intake last year. The managers of Iceland’s national football team, one of whom is also a part-time dentist, a part time dentist I tell you, they were beaten by a bloody dentist.... The only Englishman who did not look petrified in the game’s closing stages was Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford, an 18-year-old who in time will surely succumb to the fear and trepidation already instilled in his teammates. As England fans despaired, Iceland’s goals were cheered in the pubs of Brussels. “Brexit effect already? Many will feel a kind of cosmic karma was at work, hang on many? how about the whole world!....... European fans have long argued that England’s perception of itself as a footballing powerhouse far outstrips its actual ability. At half-time, with their team losing, English commentators discussed who ought to be dropped for the quarter-final!!!! The familiar procession of hype, entitlement, crushing disappointment and recrimination is once again nearing completion. Before the match, footage emerged online of England fans gleefully chanting “we’re not in Europe anymore” on the streets of southern France. Their cry is now doubly true, after the country’s greatest footballing embarrassment since a 1-0 loss to the United States in the 1950 World Cup. That result 66 years ago came against a backdrop of post-war economic recovery. In the summer of 2016, this humiliation will feel to many like an escape from real-world doom and gloom: an utter shambles, but at least one the nation (and the world) can laugh about................ JUST for YOU home_and_away, just for you son............
