sussexpob wrote:I assume we will now beat Italy at a moment of deep transition for them, and beat a Ukraine team with 10 players who cant play every week, and he will be hailed as a genius, only for some second rate power to knock us out of a semi-final after his tactical bungles.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:England always seemed to be consumed by nerves, so they froze. Maybe a good manager would stop that happening. But it always happened.
Durhamfootman wrote:although picking the best players is no good if they can't gel, get on, or complement each other. We squandered a golden generation hopelessly trying to find a formation that suited them all and ended up with an England team that was much less than the sum of its individual parts, so it perhaps isn't quite as easy as it ought to be. Once ego's start getting in the way, I think it becomes difficult to build a 'team'
Durhamfootman wrote:dogma?
sussexpob wrote:
I think there is a tendency in the English media to find reasons that are easier to consume than the reality. Often when we get knocked out, you get someone like Ian Wright coming out and suggesting players need to go to Afghanistan to learn patriotism or some nonsense like that, as if a lack of caring or something else is the reason we lost. More often than not, we just arent that good, which is a fact that is seemingly hard to swallow.
Arthur Crabtree wrote: Like creating passing options through movement
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