- Sep 1, 2008
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I think anyone who has seen the USA team play, can easily see they have had a huge headstart - Kudos to them tbf. It's quite something when you realise as a whole that they took a long time to accept and adapt to Football, Though it still grates me that they call it soccer.Why do so many of our fans have this attitude? Losing a match does not mean you bottled it. Sometimes - and today is definitely one such case - the opposition is simply better. The Americans were playing soccer while the English FA deliberately killed it because it was "unladylike", and were winning World Cups while we didn't give one iota about it. It's only really the last six or seven years there's been any concerted effort to develop the game in England, and this is the first time there's really been mass public interest in it. Winning the SheBelieves cup and playing a very close game against the US is much better than any reasonable expectation of the team at this stage. To expect that we can just show up, take an interest for the first time and stroll towards being world champions is ridiculously arrogant.