Crocodile tears....Statements from the Monarch.....The predictable back page photo's of consolation....Dear oh dear.
For me, the whole landscape surrounding the English National team exists in a kind of Peter Pan fantasy...a never never land of lost hopes and dreams. Tournament after tournament we hear " We'll use the pain of this defeat as extra motivation to win next time round" etc etc. It's all about them, all you get repeated ad infinitum is We've got the best players...blah blah blah...yet there's no empirical evidence that ever supports that view. I've seen generations of England teams fail to bring it home (FFS)....all those squads were trapped by a misguided sense of entitlement as opposed to genuine merit. Such is they're exaggerated perception of their own greatness, with a corresponding and exaggerated disregard of the talents of their opponents. It's easy to see why they are trapped...they are brainwashed by the media, brainwashed by their wealth, brainwashed by fanatical equally brainwashed support....In short they think they're better than they actually are.
"We'll use the pain of this defeat to come back stronger..." except they don't and they won't, because they fail to understand that other countries also develop players and many of those players are (a lot) better than them.
Fantastic post mate, and absolutely spot f***in on, I’ve been saying similar for years, albeit not quite as accurate, our wee Country Scotland gets the piss ripped out of it because we’re not good enough, but here’s the rub, nor is f***in England, the difference is, we know we have no chance of winning, we’ve accepted that there’s more chance someone winning the Lotto, so when we qualify for any major event such as the Euro’s that’s a achievement in itself,
But England, still think their a global entity, still harbouring on that ‘66’ win and believe they are entitled to be amongst the elite, the arrogance from fans, pundits etc is astounding, the actual truth is England fail to win because the FA employ ‘Yes’ men, such as Southgate, and every manager before him, going back to Ramsey in ‘66’,
Believe it or not, I actually feel sorry for England and those sensible souls amongst them, because the reality is, you do have a group of players capable of winning major competitions, unfortunately the FA keep employing managers who can’t or don’t manage effectively, in particular Southgate, his attitude is ‘Not to Lose’ hence those lacklustre performances in the group stages and again last night when it mattered,
Kane should never have played, but he’s England’s golden boy, so the FA would have influenced Southgate for him to play, he was actually a hindrance last night, he played Shaw knowing he wasn’t 100% fit either, there’s other things he could have done to change the dynamic but didn’t, why didn’t he throw on Anthony Gordon, why did he leave so late to play Palmer, he could have chucked Ollie Watkins on instead of sticking with Kane who offered F**k all the first 45, he could have put Trent on too, the best passer and dead ball player England has, but Southgate as ever was, is and always will be tactically inept, and was pandering to his masters, England will never win another competition so long as the FA employ ‘Yes’ men, managers who manage, not Clough, not J Charlton, or any other outspoken manager who don’t fit into the establishment psyche !!
Wonder who the next ‘Yes’ man will be ?? maybe he’s coming home too !!
YNWA
