Just what is it about the England footballers that makes them such failures on the international stage? The rolling over of the Under 21 side last night just goes to highlight the point.
These guys, the full squad and the Under 21s are supposed to be playing, or so we are told, in the "best league in the world" i.e. the Premiership. They certainly get enough money to believe that is where they are playing anyway. Does that make them the best players we have in this country? Logic would tell us so. Why then, when they come up against the best players from other countries on the international stage can they not compete? Why can they not win something?
Every now and then we are told that "This is the golden generation" and that this is it, we have a world-beating team. What happens? Instead of having a world-beating team we have a team that is beaten by the world.
It is an awful long time since some of us had the privilege of watching the World Cup in 1966, an awful long time. 45 years to be exact. How many of you do not believe that in 5 years time we will be seeing the 50th anniversary of the last time the England football team actually won something? Not many would be my guess. There is a whole generation that has never seen success on the international stage. How can that be?
I don't know what is wrong with our football, or maybe our footballers, that creates this failure time and time again. I know one thing for sure though and that is there really must be something wrong with it.
It really is about time that the Football Association looked seriously at this issue and did something about it. Ah, but then we look at the F.A. .............. well that is a whole blog issue on it's own.
2016. Raise a glass to those of the ilk of Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, Nobby Stiles and Martin Peters et al. Happy 50th anniversary boys. The last team to give this country any pride in the National Team representing the National Sport of the "Country that gave football to the world".
A sad state of affairs.
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