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Is there actually a manager of a top class overseas team who would have them?
Mr Steve Mclaren – Wolfsburg (Germany)
Great to see the England players in fits of hysteria as they got off the plane earlier
Ok, someone might have told a brilliant joke (perhaps someone said England were a good team) or someone might have let rip (men laugh at these things) but surely they would have known the eyes of the world would be watching them as the plane landed.
To exit the plane in fits of laughter after this miserable campaign is an insult to every paying England fan in South Africa.
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But you’ll be talking about it tomorrow (or later today) as it’s now hit the front pages of a few newspapers.
I’ll say it again, for the players to be in hysterics knowing that the cameras are on them is a complete insult.
And it’s no surprise to me that Ashley Cole is at the forefront of it. This is the guy who prior to the World Cup bought a pair of £50k ear-rings, so that he could ‘show them off’ at the World Cup (his words).
Cole is an world class left-back in my opinion, but boy does his antics off the field leave something to be desired.
Completely had enough of England talk now, that’s it from me
Great to see the England players in fits of hysteria as they got off the plane earlier
Ok, someone might have told a brilliant joke (perhaps someone said England were a good team) or someone might have let rip (men laugh at these things) but surely they would have known the eyes of the world would be watching them as the plane landed.
To exit the plane in fits of laughter after this miserable campaign is an insult to every paying England fan in South Africa.
Looks like you must of all missed this post
But you’ll be talking about it tomorrow (or later today) as it’s now hit the front pages of a few newspapers.
I’ll say it again, for the players to be in hysterics knowing that the cameras are on them is a complete insult.
And it’s no surprise to me that Ashley Cole is at the forefront of it. This is the guy who prior to the World Cup bought a pair of £50k ear-rings, so that he could ‘show them off’ at the World Cup (his words).
Cole is an world class left-back in my opinion, but boy does his antics off the field leave something to be desired.
Completely had enough of England talk now, that’s it from me
The players aint worth it mate
I was reminded last night of a Sun newspaper front page headline following the World Cup Draw.
It read:
Phew ! World Cup Draw Relief
E ngland
A lgeria
S lovenia
Y anks
Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning
On the subject of England players going abroad:
"Technically, it would improve them," Waddle told BBC Radio 5 live. "It’s an eye-opener. You think it’s a game of football, like it is back home, but it’s not.
"When Marseille got the ball, we played patient football, it was about possession, it was like a waltz. English football is based on the Charleston. The Premier League has always been a basketball league – you attack then they attack – but other leagues don’t play like that.
"International football is about keeping the ball. My three years in Marseille taught me so much about football, which I would never have learnt in England."
Not one member of England manager Fabio Capello’s World Cup squad in South Africa this summer had experience of playing club football anywhere other than in their own country.
It would be preferable to change the way we play our football, but if that can’t done, a spell abroad for some of these players might help them.
Interesting quotes from Joe Cole
"It is obvious that we lack the kind of qualities you need to be successful at international level," Cole said. "We don’t keep the ball as well as other countries; that’s not a secret.
"It wasn’t just the Germany game. Over the course of the tournament we looked a long way behind the other top nations and when it came to the crunch, the best side won. People will talk about the decision not to allow Frank Lampard’s goal, but it was plain and simple to see that we just weren’t good enough.
"Almost every team I have played for – including England – always want to hit the front players as early as possible. You won’t get away with that at international level. It’s about technique, keeping control of the ball, passing and moving.
"We seem to abandon good technique because we are obsessed with getting the ball from back to front as quickly as possible. That doesn’t work against top teams.
"No one pulls the England shirt on with more pride than me but we’ve got to face up to the reality of it all. We’re just not good enough. Maybe it’s time to really look at how we’re teaching kids to play. Maybe we’re paying the price for having the best league in the world."
So now even the England players are saying it. Will anything change? I wouldn’t want to bet on it. The FA suits are interested in the Premier League and feathering their own nests and that’s all. Trevor Brooking is fighting a lone battle.
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