So says the legend that is Harry Rednapp. www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/world-cup-2014-liverpool-fc-7299843
I read this yesterday and thought it a great compliment to the pedigree that the Swans have slowly but surely established over the last several years. Ironic isn't it that Routledge, Shelvey and Britton don't get so much as a look and yet technically last season under Laudrup and Monk (although a tad less so based on the stats and one or two off games), we still dominated teams in the possession and passing stats.
Quite frankly .... Harry would still make an excellent England manager because he is not in the least bit insecure about having top class, progressive coaches working under him. Looking to the next Euro tournament, England need to rebuild now - players and system - from the ground up. The seeds are there in the likes of Sterling, Sturridge, Lallana and Barkely. The likes of Caulker need to be brought in and grommed - if he finds a Prem club for next season - who will be peaking when the next World Cup comes around.
When it was seemingly the choice last time between Woy and Arry I thought the better choice to qualify for the WC and try and progress would have been Arry
Neither could save the trainwreck that is England. Fans, Media and Sponsors pick the players... hence why the generation that has delivered failure were still involved this World Cup. Rooney and Gerrard should never have been allowed to get on the plane, successions of complete dross at the biggest stages of international football should have been enough to consign them to never being a part of the England setup ever again. They couldn't do it on several occasions before so why did some think it would be a different story this time? Next game Woy will be wise to not even put those two on the bench, and the same for Glen Jonhson too. They should be told they are not right the international game.
Should have taken Rooney, Gerrard and Henderson off last night, and Welbeck shouldn't have been there either.
That's another one, why the hell was Welbeck taken. He is a striker who over two seasons has a woeful scoring record, and I do not buy the young and learning excuses. When you are a striker who scores just two goals in over half the possible playable games in a title winning season then the fact of the matter is you are a **** striker.
Wow. I knew he was always was complimentary about the Swans but didn't know how much was blowing smoke. TBH The Swans connections at the Olympics probably didn't help our cause.
Actually they didn't. Historically there have been more Barca than Madrid players in the key positions - Xavi, Iniesta, Busquettes, Puyols, Pique, David Villa, Pedro - and they played as a unit. The system was Barca's system. In this tournament, more non-Barca players with more Madrid players. Instead of RB, Ramos played CB in place of Puyols. Xavi was older. Madrid and Barca styles are oil and water.
