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I can not agree more.
201. tintoy
10 HOURS AGO
I think the malaise goes deeper than football; it reflects our culture and state of society, what we have become as a nation - flaccid in our thinking, lazy, arrogant and obsessed with instant gratification.
How silly do the players now look on billboards and adverts?
The worship of money has made them and us swollen with self-importance and self-regard. Creative, Zen thinking demanded now.
The problem we have in this country is we still believe we rule the world, we are still living off past glories, and by that I mean WWII.
The England Football Team has won
1 trophy in it's history, thats one more than The Isle on Man.
We (the country) feel we are a big team, we're not, we are a small team, we do well to qualify, we make up the numbers that's all, we are the garden peas to the rump steak.
As I am typing this Iran are giving Argentina a real run for their money, (abet Argentina have no money
Link ). Iran with no stars, are playing with passion and as a team, something England are incapable of.
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