Well I've been busy. I haven't disappeared altogether! Can't be arsed really to yack about what I've been doing, but just wanted to comment on the England World cup disaster.
It's not surprising they lost. They are crap.
May be Germany have done England/the Premiership some good. May be things might change now. Why is the English league full of foreigners? It's not the answer at all, look at Argentina as a prime example. Their domestic league isn't great but national team is very good. This pattern is actually more common than you think.
Well more importantly in my eyes is the youth systems, English clubs are very bad at producing any talent. All the good national team youth systems have players who probably never kicked a full size ball, over head height, with more than 2 touches up until they were 15. English football doesn't promote talent or passion- no individual skill. Why is it that almost every team has at least one incredibly skillfull player. Where is Englands?!
Footballers in England (at least) are genuinly retarded- they are too stupid to win. Football is blissfully simple, yet no-one in the England team has a brain to create space to have any concept of forward thinking.
They are overpaid, passionless players who see it as a right to be in the team. They lack the basic skills/ability to play at International level- just watch any of their World cup games.
English football needs an overhaul- there are no English players in the team playing in other European leagues, why? Well because the players can't cope with that style- attacking, flair football. Why do footballers get paid to play for their country? Think the motivation to play football has long since been lost against the desire for money.
When you can't do the simple things properly, there is no hope. No passion, no talent, no nothing. The best idea ever in football is to have performance based pay. At a normal job you get sacked for doing a crap job, so why do you get paid millions to be useless in football?
The chumps should owe money if they lose or play badly. I'm just watching the Argentina match and it wouldn't have mattered if we'd have beaten Germany- we would have been destroyed by this team.
Despite Maradona being a royal prick, at least he has passion (or drugs), which he clearly feeds to his players. They look like they want to be there!
One consolation for England is that it can only get better. An unfortunate dis-allowed goal may have cost them, but if you don't do the business you don't deserve to win. So despite this, they still let in 4 goals. Why oh why do they not use replays? This would cut the diving, the uncertainty, the indecision. Job done, but no, they continue to ignore this easy answer to improve the game.
This is definitely another day, where I'm glad not to be in England, the next thing is to change my nationality. Erm problem there is that if its based on football- and thank f**k it's not, as Sweden are just as bad (the difference being they have 6 times less people to choose from and don't claim to be good at football- their top league has attendences of as low as a few hundred people for smaller teams, getting paid around 20 k a year), I would have to marry a German, haha. Ok, not going to happen.
Ironically, we've just been to a wedding- on Öland, a lovely little island just off the south eastish coast. So that's inspiration to get married.........erm........If it means I can become Swedish, then may be I might just do it.......at least I don't have to get nervous wondering if the football team will win or lose in the World cup..........
It's not surprising they lost. They are crap.
May be Germany have done England/the Premiership some good. May be things might change now. Why is the English league full of foreigners? It's not the answer at all, look at Argentina as a prime example. Their domestic league isn't great but national team is very good. This pattern is actually more common than you think.
Well more importantly in my eyes is the youth systems, English clubs are very bad at producing any talent. All the good national team youth systems have players who probably never kicked a full size ball, over head height, with more than 2 touches up until they were 15. English football doesn't promote talent or passion- no individual skill. Why is it that almost every team has at least one incredibly skillfull player. Where is Englands?!
Footballers in England (at least) are genuinly retarded- they are too stupid to win. Football is blissfully simple, yet no-one in the England team has a brain to create space to have any concept of forward thinking.
They are overpaid, passionless players who see it as a right to be in the team. They lack the basic skills/ability to play at International level- just watch any of their World cup games.
English football needs an overhaul- there are no English players in the team playing in other European leagues, why? Well because the players can't cope with that style- attacking, flair football. Why do footballers get paid to play for their country? Think the motivation to play football has long since been lost against the desire for money.
When you can't do the simple things properly, there is no hope. No passion, no talent, no nothing. The best idea ever in football is to have performance based pay. At a normal job you get sacked for doing a crap job, so why do you get paid millions to be useless in football?
The chumps should owe money if they lose or play badly. I'm just watching the Argentina match and it wouldn't have mattered if we'd have beaten Germany- we would have been destroyed by this team.
Despite Maradona being a royal prick, at least he has passion (or drugs), which he clearly feeds to his players. They look like they want to be there!
One consolation for England is that it can only get better. An unfortunate dis-allowed goal may have cost them, but if you don't do the business you don't deserve to win. So despite this, they still let in 4 goals. Why oh why do they not use replays? This would cut the diving, the uncertainty, the indecision. Job done, but no, they continue to ignore this easy answer to improve the game.
This is definitely another day, where I'm glad not to be in England, the next thing is to change my nationality. Erm problem there is that if its based on football- and thank f**k it's not, as Sweden are just as bad (the difference being they have 6 times less people to choose from and don't claim to be good at football- their top league has attendences of as low as a few hundred people for smaller teams, getting paid around 20 k a year), I would have to marry a German, haha. Ok, not going to happen.
Ironically, we've just been to a wedding- on Öland, a lovely little island just off the south eastish coast. So that's inspiration to get married.........erm........If it means I can become Swedish, then may be I might just do it.......at least I don't have to get nervous wondering if the football team will win or lose in the World cup..........
