Another World Cup, another England failure.
For me, the disappointment is not so much the fact that we’re out of the World Cup so soon, but the manner in which it has happened. The public have been told all the way along that preparations were first class but the four games we have seen the England team play demonstrated very clearly that all was not right.
Three goals in four games. One victory against Slovenia, the smallest country in the competition. Dreadful.
Our ‘star’ players failed to live up to their star billing. Perhaps we shouldn’t measure a player’s ability simply on how much he earns? Maybe the greed of the Premiership is masking the fact that our English players are very, very ordinary and only the influx of foreigners in the English game have made them appear to be the superstars their obscene salaries would have us believe?
For me, nothing summed up the England players poor attitude than seeing Cashley Cole laughing and grinning with Ledley ‘Knee’ King as they stepped off the plane just a few hours after the game. It seemed as if Cole had not a care in the World. That’s probably true because this overpaid prima donna can’t possibly care about his country and for all those poor fans who paid thousands of pounds to travel to watch this piss poor performance from our overpaid footballers. Ashley just cares about himself and how much money he can squeeze out of the game. Disgraceful.
Apparently, Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard and Terry earn more between them than the entire Germany squad. Go figure…
It’s not just the players who should hang their heads in shame though. The FA need to look at themselves and figure out what sort of strategy they have other than giving foreign managers millions of pounds on the basis that the candidate talks a good fight (not in English, of course).
Finally, Fabio Capello. Apparently, according to his agent (who happens to be his son), he’s not the quitting type. But is he an honourable man? Will he resign and reach a reasonable* settlement with his English paymasters? For the sake of England (the country, not the ‘team’), I sincerely hope so. What we, the paying public, have witnessed over the past few weeks has been a national disgrace and the Manager must take responsibility for this. No excuses. The time has been there. The money has been there. The results though, speak for themself. Go Fabio and let us start planning as soon as possible for the European Championships in two years time. Please!
*I appreciate that ‘reasonable’ and ‘football’ and not two things you would typically associate with each other.
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