Grannies playing spastra…Sunday league teams kicking a ball around effortlessley on Hackney Marshes…As the England fans booed after the game Wayne Rooney reacted, pitbull style in front the cameras. What then is wrong with England as a football team? Well first up they never play like a team because they don’t know, just like all of us, who the team actually is until a couple of hours before the game. Capello’s mysterious approach then has hindered developing a team spirit. Now according to The Sun Football Guru and Tottenham saviour, Harry Redknapp this is common practice as it prevents information leaking out from disgruntled players who may not be picked to the opponents before a game. But surely these people who kick a round object aimlessly for a few hours a day are getting paid much more in a year than all if us earn in a life time, so where’s the loyalty, respect, let alone confidentiality.
Next up, they don’t play like a team because they are still playing like competing players in the Premiership. These top flight footballers seem to have much more loyalty to club rather then country, which frankly sucks considering this is a world cup.
There are also some players who think they are ready, the bees knees and all the rest, but really they aint ready yet and others that are so past it that one wonders why they are still being picked. Rooney for instance seems to be the kingpin of the England side but if he played like that two games in a row for Man United Fergie would have benched him. Heskey, with all due respect is way passed it as a starting player and he hasn’t scored for England in ages. Where’s Joe Cole? He hasn’t been given a moments play and yet he has more flair and determination than many.
Finally, Capello has to go. It just isn’t working for him or for England. Despite being in the job for a few years now he seems to be out of touch with the players appearing as a rather frustrated man, who couldn’t muster a goal against a sub standard side – lets face it Algeria had lost 4 out of their 5 last matches – on his birthday.
So England-v-Slovenia…I’d rather watch the grannies playing spastra…
Haris Shekeris
Jun 19, 2010 @ 20:46:50
a well to-do english person earning 40 grand a year takes 5 years to get what rooney gets in a week. yet it’s rooney who complains about loyalty, not the other way around. funny, eh?
haji mike
Jun 19, 2010 @ 21:02:21
Very good maths my friend! I thing Rooney gets more than that each week…
Haris Shekeris
Jun 20, 2010 @ 16:26:48
yeah probably. i hope somebody does point that out at some point, though having said that, i’d rather that loads of money is being wasted on money rather than on weapons or drug-dealing or whatever, though unfortunately the one does not exclude the other (i wish it did!)
the Idiot Mouflon
Jun 21, 2010 @ 09:50:59
Ah, for Pete’s sake… the way they played… they couldn’t beat “Olympiakos Lefkosias” !
haji mike
Jun 21, 2010 @ 11:33:20
Or Ethnikos Marathovounos!
Haris Shekeris
Jun 21, 2010 @ 18:35:02
well, we got some action finally from cry-baby ronaldo -though he surprisingly didn’t get anybody sent off), let’s see if the spaniards will deliver.
Haris Shekeris
Jun 22, 2010 @ 20:15:11
guys sorry, i have to vent my anger against the bbc commentators and especially alan hansen. they are so so so negative against greece, i think they’re being totally unfair, especially in the last two games. i’ve had it up to the neck with them saying that greece is playing negatively when they had the best chance of the first half and probably mastered more shots on goal (three i think) than england vs algeria. how’s that for objectivity? lousy hypocrites!!
haji mike
Jun 22, 2010 @ 20:49:36
And the Greek commentary is totally objective? It was ok up to 78 mins…once Argentina scored it was a different game…goal 2 sealed it and the dream of qualification was demolished…Hansen ex-scouse hmmmm
Haris Shekeris
Jul 05, 2010 @ 23:15:20
true. though what annoys me in england is that they pretend that their comments are objective, whereas the greeks at least make no claim of objectivity, maybe on the contrary, the commentator is supposed to show emotion