Well hopefully we can clear out the dead wood of the "golden" generation who've failed so many times now and start giving chances to the next generation of English players.
I don't think today's debacle requires a great deal of analysis - they were simply nowhere near good enough, not just against Germany, but throughout the WC. We struggled against shite sides like Algeria, then when we came up against a genuinely decent side in Germany we were shown up for the poor side that we are. It reminded me of City under Pearce, only at least City under Pearce could defend. Although I was very impressed at just how badly England did defend today, I didn't think it was possible for professional footballers to be quite so unprofessional (although to be fair both the French and Italians provided an example to live down to).
We have players who are effective for their clubs but who simply don't work together effectively at international level, and who continually fail to provide anything like the level of performance needed, but who manager after manager is scared to drop. Ffs, everybody has known that Lampard and Gerrard really don't fit into the same team for about 10 years, but no manager has had the cojones to make a decision and bung one of them on the bench.Rooney has been shite, yet Capello lacked the stomach to drop him and perhaps use him as an impact sub. Mind you, if his idea of an impact sub is Heskey - well, it doesn't happen often, but words fail me.
Still, all this puts Sven's achievement of getting this team collection of misfit prima donnas and journeymen to a quarter final into perspective.
Right well, had enough of talking about England now, wasn't that arsed to begin with. Milner and Yaya Toure are alleged targets, and they should be home and waiting by the phone for us to call - sort it out, Cooke! And after Milner's poor showing in SA, let's get a discount.
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