King Kev wrote:The biggest problem we have with football in this country, and the national squad in particular, is the British press.
They build up he hopes of the average man (or woman) on the street to crazy proportions, and then go mad when they turn out to be wrong. I said a couple of weeks ago that England had the worst squad in living memory and wouldn't amount to anything, it was easy to see for anybody with half a brain, but the media built it up that 'we' were going to win it and the muppets followed. Before we knew it the houses were adorned with the St George flag, every car had flags on it and suddenly everybody was a fucking expert on world football.
The media have a lot to answer for, the sooner we learn to ignore their bullshit the sooner we will realise that the likes of Terry and Rooney are jokers. They raise our hopes and expectations just so they can then mock us when it all goes wrong.
We need to learn to ignore these people and think for ourselves, had we done that it would have come as no surprise that r**ney scored no goals and terry is a useless prick who just watches the ball.
Don't believe the hype.
You can't really argue with that.
I mean, just looking at the list of players available made it pretty clear that this was pretty weak England side. Think I said it year ago already when this was discussed. England lacked genuine quality in key positions. I was laughed at and ridiculed when I said that England don't have a proper out and out goalscorer to challenge for golden boot which every team that has plans of winning it has. Also, I said that apart from Terry England doesn't have convincing centerback pairing. Fair enough, Weo was injured (I don't rate him anyway) and even Terry turned out to be shit but still England was lacking in one of the key areas. Goalkeeping situation everyone seemed to agree with though.
The point of that cuntish drivel is that I didn't think this England squad was that good at all. Last 16 or last 8 was best I could see them doing anyway. While I think Cappello made some really foolish decisions already in selection process and then in tournament (Taking Heskey and then actually playing him, overrelying on Rooney when he had fairly capable strikers on the bench, taking King who was injury waiting to happen and then having no talent like Upson and Dawson too as back ups, Green as a goalkeeper etc etc), I don't think there's manager in the world who would've dragged this team to World Cup. Semi's would've been serious overachievement imo.
So basically, Redknapp is NO option for you. Don't go down that route. You are best off just sticking with Cappello 'til Euros imo. Someone has to make some SERIOUS changes in your team anyway. Why not let Cappello do it as he is dead man walking anyway if you don't progress far in Euros, never mind not make the tournament.
I know some English think I'm a cunt after this post but honestly I was kind of hoping you'd do well. It's not a wind up but honest outsiders opinion who has seen most England games during Cappello era.
