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On another note, my application for the head coach job has today been emailed to Martin Glenn at The FA. Having the experience of management myself, albeit in local parks football, for 20 odd years, I'm sure i can do the job and get the best out of the players available. Plus, at a fraction of the price.
In Germany where I live it is hardly impossible to have such a high amount of foreign managers. Actually it is very rare (Pep Guardiola was an exception). Therefore, young and very motivated managers get a chance (think of Klopp who was very successfull with Dortmund and is now in Liverpool) or Thomas Tuchel who is his successor in Dortmund. All in all, there is a trend towards younger managers who use all kinds of modern technologies and scientific developments.
Hence, I think England should not again spend Millions of Dollars for the next foreign superstar but find someone who knows the English players very well, has great motivation skills, is experienced but no too old and open for new meassures and unpopular decisions.
We're in a better position than we've been for some time re. new talent (although we can continue to do better). We need a manager who can bring cohesion, a style of play that can be rolled out at grass roots and an ethos that can start to erode these biennial psychological problems that ruin every tournament.
The problem with England is that there is no defined 'style', we have kids who play in vastly different set ups and when they're brought together they can't integrate into any sort of viable system. Do we play down the channels, through the middle, over the top, possession - this England seem to do all of these, but none of them effectively. 2006 was a half-decent side, but at the end of the day, a side with Kane, Vardy and Sturridge should have been able to score far more goals from open play than they did.
There are myriad problems, but talent isn't the most pressing one, in fact it's way down the list. We've always had and will continue to have players who can do a job, it's about forming a cohesive 'team'. Italy are no better than England on an individual level, but their team spirit and their psychological stability mean they will always compete at a much higher level in tournaments.
It's psychological. Once the equaliser went in they all bottled it, hence why Hart failed to save a shot my wife could've. It's all in the head, they're technically proficient footballers.
Should be able to deal with it at that level, if they can't they shouldn't be playing for England in a major tournament.
The problem was that he didn't know that he didn't know what he was doing.
I assume you've never watched England in a major tournament before?
TSN commentary after the England v Iceland match
Of course I have - Euro 96, World Cup 98, Euro 2000, World Cup 2002, Euro 2004, World Cup 2006, World Cup 2010, Euro 2012, World Cup 2014 and Euro 2016
Euro 96 and World Cup 98, we went out with our heads held high.
If heads held high includes losing to the Germans on penalties (again) and effigy's of Beckham being burnt. If I recall correctly we finished second in our group again in '98, behind Romania, who we failed to beat and then obviously we were subsequently knocked out by the Argies in the next round, not forgetting Owen's solo effort. '96 is notable for our drubbing of the dutch and Gazza vs. Scotland. Memorable, granted, but if we'd known that would be our legacy 20 years down the line, bearing in mind some of the talent we've had in the intervening years we'd have shuddered. It's an endemic problem that doesn't seem to be going away. There needs to be a real shake-up.
90 were great.
In comparison to last night, they were proud moments.
Ha ha, amazing.
I am still not sure whether there is a lack of great talents in England. The team consists of many great young players. Maybe it is rather a problem of experience and motivation. If you earn millions of Dollars in your club it is maybe difficult to motivate yourself for your national team. There also seam to be some mental problems. Each time when it gets a little close England loses. They almost ever lose the penalty shoot-out and after a deficit they hardly ever turn a decisive match. They also always seam to lose against teams of similar or slightly higher quality. I think their victory against Argentina in 2002 was the last against a team of high quality. After that:
World Cup 2002:
Brazil : England 2:1
Euro 2004:
France : England 2:1
Portugal : England 6:5 penalty
World Cup 2006:
Portugal : England 1:0
World-Cup 2010:
Germany : England 4:1
Euro 2012:
England : France 1:1
Italy : England 4:2 penalty
World-Cup 2014:
Italy : Englan 2:1
Urugay: England 2:1
So eight losses and one tie against high quality teams.
June 11th:
And, if you are interested, in ploughing through them various rants on page 81 of this thread about how we had the wrong man from day one.
Shearer smashed it out of the park on MOTD to be fair to him and there's nothing else I can add to what he said.
Standing 20 yards from the clown last night I would've felt a soupçon of sympathy at what a tragic figure he cut had I not been so incensed at his rank ineptitude. Rashford must've been warming up in front of me for about 20 minutes while the clock ticked down. He kept looking at the bench expecting to be sent on but the useless f**k just stood there with his hand on his chin without the slightest clue how to affect the events unfolding in front of him.
I'm reminded of anecdotal tales about the captain of the Titanic who, upon being told that it was certain that the ship would sink, went into a daze (it is said he had some sort of mental breakdown) and spent the rest of the time wandering round unable to issue orders to the crew.
Yes Roy shoulders a lot of the blame but the buck ultimately stops at the feckless suits who a) employed him in the first place, despite a CV that, with the greatest will in the world, could only be described as very average b) continued to blithely employ him after the most abject World Cup ever. These people are, at best, grossly incompetent and at worst parasites growing fat off the fans who fill their coffers with the misplaced loyalty and stupidly dare to believe that we might not be utter shite for once.
Roy Hodgson was the highest paid coach at Euro 2016.
I'll just write that sentence again to allow it to sink in:
Roy Hodgson was the highest paid coach at Euro 2016.
A man whose greatest triumph was winning the Swedish league 5 years in a row in the 80s!
That in itself illustrates just how out of touch with reality the FA is.
The players should not escape censure of course. Most of them are shockingly overpaid and overrated but without anything approaching a clear tactical game plan it was clear they simply didn't know what they were supposed to be doing. And that's down to the manager.
But tomorrow the FA will make all these feeble platitudes about starting from scratch, changing our philosophy and building for the future. And then they will hire Gareth Southgate. Nothing against him personally but the key attribute that will get him the job is that he is an FA yes man.
Changing the manager is fiddling while Rome burns. We have done it hundreds of times with the same result.
Strange how similar the FA and EU are. Middle aged white blokes with massive expense accounts and no discernible talent. And absolutely no fear of being held to account for failure.
Whatever happened to people being sacked if they are shit? Even Roy was allowed to resign when someone from the FA should've humiliatingly sacked him.
Perhaps the FA needs to go public because it's apparently it's only when you are accountable to shareholders that you need to deliver?
The lowest moment of all. Joe Gatejens 1950 used to be the gold standard of England humiliation. World Cup 94 qualifying was abject, Euro 08 qualifying was dismal, World Cup 10 was pitiful, World Cup 14 was a disgrace but this is it; the nadir. The anger has subsided now. Just depression remains.
Still chin up - there's always someone worse off than yourself. We could be Scotland! Even Roy somehow managed to get us out of the group, something they have still never managed. Scant consolation I know but the average jock would bite your hand off to get knocked out by Iceland in the last 16.
'Why you all upset, it was just one bad game' paraphrase.
Yes, exactly. This is tournament football, it's not like the league with a club where one lousy game can be made up. That's the nature of the job, have a bad game and you're out.
He couldn't understand why he had to even be at that press conference. "I'm no longer the England manager." Like it wasn't his fault.
Staggering.
'Why am I here? You mean I should have to answer for being a total fucking disgrace? Don't think so. This is England where being shit at your job doesn't hold you back. Just look at the FA, the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition etc etc etc. Why are you singling me out?'
The country is a Warick Davis stride away from falling off a cliff.