dontcallme
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- Mar 18, 2005
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Here's a list of what i consider are the problems:
Grass roots: like already mentionned our kids play on pitches way too big for them. When i started playing as a result we put the big kids in defence and fast kids up front and relied solely on the long ball. The passing training and basics we learnt in training were never applied in matches and development was slowed down considerably.
The lack of proper coaching for kids are the country are almost non-existent, the FA have simply done nothing.
Attitude to the sport: we simply don't appreciate attacking skill and flair players. The likes of C Ronaldo and Ginola have often been branded lazy despite all the effort and energy they put into creating chances and goals. The "work horses" behind who put in a few tackles are more respected. Our attitude as a result means we don't have any creative flair players in the centre of midfield, we put a lot into our "bulldog spirit" when often a cool head and ability is more successful than simply trying to be more physical than the opposition.
Clubs over pricing English players: we've heard the moans about the top four not having enough English players but we hype them up and price our players out of the game. £10m on Francis Jeffers or an extra 900k for Berbatov for any club it's not a hard decision. Elano cost 7.5 while clubs command the same sorts of prices for the likes of Nolan, Reo-Coker, Barton, Jenas, and Ashley Young. The top clubs when looking for transfer options wisely stay well clear of spending that much money and as a result our English players miss our on opportunities to play Champions League football.
Drinking Culture: sorry to bring this up but foreign youngsters seem to accept their position as a professional athlete while our attitudes to drinking hurt our players at a crucial time when they should be concentrating on making their career are discovering alcohol like it's the greatest thing in the world.
Media Hype: "This is the Golden Generation" sorry but it's not. Compare our players in ability now to 1990 and there's not much difference. I'd take Linekar and Beardsley over Rooney and Owen and Shilton over all our keepers put together. Our defence is much the same and Waddle, Barnes and Gazza were top players in their day much like Gerrard and Lampard are now. We put huge expectations on a group of players that are talented but not as good as the Brazilians, Portuguese, Italians or French. We build them up as world stars to get the public into a frenzy to buy papers then when they go out write them off as overpaid, overhyped wasters to sell even more papers. The British public lap it all up and i can't see how this is positive in any way, shape or form.
English Managers: Svens record up until the last World Cup was very good yet we hammered him for being foreign and trying to get our style of play to evolve. McClaren was always going to be a joke much like Keegan. Hoddle could have been great but a stupid comment and the media screwed him and the country. We don't have many good options now and any sane person would not touch the job with a barge pole unless they are happy to temporarily be Englands most hated man in sport in exchange for a big pay off.
The FA: Who are these people in charge? They are not football men and they are not doing much to help develop our sporting aspirations. Surely the likes of Trevor Brooking, Bobby Charlton and Bobby Robson are the kinds of people we should have in charge. Full of football knowledge, well respected and completely driven by football success rather than politics.
We sure are in a dyer state and no one seems to be doing anything about it.
Grass roots: like already mentionned our kids play on pitches way too big for them. When i started playing as a result we put the big kids in defence and fast kids up front and relied solely on the long ball. The passing training and basics we learnt in training were never applied in matches and development was slowed down considerably.
The lack of proper coaching for kids are the country are almost non-existent, the FA have simply done nothing.
Attitude to the sport: we simply don't appreciate attacking skill and flair players. The likes of C Ronaldo and Ginola have often been branded lazy despite all the effort and energy they put into creating chances and goals. The "work horses" behind who put in a few tackles are more respected. Our attitude as a result means we don't have any creative flair players in the centre of midfield, we put a lot into our "bulldog spirit" when often a cool head and ability is more successful than simply trying to be more physical than the opposition.
Clubs over pricing English players: we've heard the moans about the top four not having enough English players but we hype them up and price our players out of the game. £10m on Francis Jeffers or an extra 900k for Berbatov for any club it's not a hard decision. Elano cost 7.5 while clubs command the same sorts of prices for the likes of Nolan, Reo-Coker, Barton, Jenas, and Ashley Young. The top clubs when looking for transfer options wisely stay well clear of spending that much money and as a result our English players miss our on opportunities to play Champions League football.
Drinking Culture: sorry to bring this up but foreign youngsters seem to accept their position as a professional athlete while our attitudes to drinking hurt our players at a crucial time when they should be concentrating on making their career are discovering alcohol like it's the greatest thing in the world.
Media Hype: "This is the Golden Generation" sorry but it's not. Compare our players in ability now to 1990 and there's not much difference. I'd take Linekar and Beardsley over Rooney and Owen and Shilton over all our keepers put together. Our defence is much the same and Waddle, Barnes and Gazza were top players in their day much like Gerrard and Lampard are now. We put huge expectations on a group of players that are talented but not as good as the Brazilians, Portuguese, Italians or French. We build them up as world stars to get the public into a frenzy to buy papers then when they go out write them off as overpaid, overhyped wasters to sell even more papers. The British public lap it all up and i can't see how this is positive in any way, shape or form.
English Managers: Svens record up until the last World Cup was very good yet we hammered him for being foreign and trying to get our style of play to evolve. McClaren was always going to be a joke much like Keegan. Hoddle could have been great but a stupid comment and the media screwed him and the country. We don't have many good options now and any sane person would not touch the job with a barge pole unless they are happy to temporarily be Englands most hated man in sport in exchange for a big pay off.
The FA: Who are these people in charge? They are not football men and they are not doing much to help develop our sporting aspirations. Surely the likes of Trevor Brooking, Bobby Charlton and Bobby Robson are the kinds of people we should have in charge. Full of football knowledge, well respected and completely driven by football success rather than politics.
We sure are in a dyer state and no one seems to be doing anything about it.
