Rocksuperstar
Isn't this fun? Isn't fun the best thing to have?
- Jun 6, 2005
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I want to care about England, i really do, but in the last ten years we've been treated to a succession of squads of players who, collectively, aren't even as good a team as Scotland (who i also follow, due to thin bloodlines and all that). At least the Scots look like they're really hungry and want to play as a team, finding cohesion enough to go through the Euro qualifiers without losing once against some formidable opposition, to no avail.
England look and act like a bunch of overpaid models who have all been asked to show up and pose for a couple of hours, win or lose, it doesn't really bother them.
I've always grown up looking at the game as a tiered system of achievement, starting at youth or academy level, through the reserves to the first team, play in domestic and European games with the first team well enough and you might be lucky enough to be picked to represent your country - THAT should be the pinnacle of any players career yet, because money is now in charge, the clubs see their players as assets and need to protect that and, in turn, as them same clubs pay the huge wages week in week out, the players are pushed into doing whatever the club wants, and the FA bow to them. If they do play, they're only concern appears to be putting on enough of a show, getting enough air time, to push their wage opportunities higher.
It's disgraceful that it's come to this, but now that moneys in charge, until the international scene starts generating big bucks for these modern, greedy, cash-driven players and the domestic clubs, we'll not see a good England team. Total mess.
England look and act like a bunch of overpaid models who have all been asked to show up and pose for a couple of hours, win or lose, it doesn't really bother them.
I've always grown up looking at the game as a tiered system of achievement, starting at youth or academy level, through the reserves to the first team, play in domestic and European games with the first team well enough and you might be lucky enough to be picked to represent your country - THAT should be the pinnacle of any players career yet, because money is now in charge, the clubs see their players as assets and need to protect that and, in turn, as them same clubs pay the huge wages week in week out, the players are pushed into doing whatever the club wants, and the FA bow to them. If they do play, they're only concern appears to be putting on enough of a show, getting enough air time, to push their wage opportunities higher.
It's disgraceful that it's come to this, but now that moneys in charge, until the international scene starts generating big bucks for these modern, greedy, cash-driven players and the domestic clubs, we'll not see a good England team. Total mess.
