I remember (prior to his sacking before the last World Cup) defending Sven on here and other forums many times, pointing to his impressive record, probably only bettered by Sir Alf Ramsey - maybe also Bobby Robson (who also took dogs abuse for much of his England career)
time and again I was told by people yea but Sven should be doing better, because he has such a great group of players - the (IMO) ridiculously named golden generation.
At the time I would point were Rooney and Owen any better than Shearer and sheringham - James any better than the Seaman of Euro 96, Terry better than Adams etc etc
The fact is the golden generation were ridiculously overhyped and Sven was ridiculously over-criticised because of many people's inflated view of England's players.
Of course there were other reasons Sven got so much unfair criticism, but the fact is as I said at the time the 'golden generation' wasn't and isn't that golden.
Incidentally after Sven got sacked and then made that ridiculous decision to take Walcott to the World cup, I stopped defending him. But prior to that the criticism of him and his all-round treatment was very unfair.
time and again I was told by people yea but Sven should be doing better, because he has such a great group of players - the (IMO) ridiculously named golden generation.
At the time I would point were Rooney and Owen any better than Shearer and sheringham - James any better than the Seaman of Euro 96, Terry better than Adams etc etc
The fact is the golden generation were ridiculously overhyped and Sven was ridiculously over-criticised because of many people's inflated view of England's players.
Of course there were other reasons Sven got so much unfair criticism, but the fact is as I said at the time the 'golden generation' wasn't and isn't that golden.
Incidentally after Sven got sacked and then made that ridiculous decision to take Walcott to the World cup, I stopped defending him. But prior to that the criticism of him and his all-round treatment was very unfair.