O well never mind...

Hello,
Its a saturday today which means only one thing (most of the time)...football! I support Stoke City (yes i've heard it all before) so my team isn't really in the spotlight most of the time. Therefore I keep checking on the results for my team but the only league I really follow is the Premier League.

English football has been in both mourning and outrage this week as we fell over quite spectaculary to a team that we really should of walked over.. This resulted in the great white and red elephant which is the england side failing to reach the Euro 2008 compition in Austria-Switzerland (why both of 'em have to have it is anyones guess).

Now people have been saying 'Oh we had our best players out injured and that this happened and that happened'....bollocks. We are (supposedly) one of the worlds most developed nations and can't churn out a 11 people who can play a good game of football. To put it in perspective, the best player on wednesday night was the 19 foot bean pole Crouch, who has to look for the ball through fog when its on the ground....

Hold on a min, lets blame it all on the long legged one, as he failed to perform the robot dance after his equalising goal. Or lets blame the Romans for not staying in Britain 1000s of years ago, we might of been able to play like Italians if that was the case.

The point is, we can think of thousands of different reasons for us not getting through, but everyone is ignoring the most important factor. We were not good enough. Our passes flowed like a Indian sewer and I've seen more ball control on celebrity love island. If we are ever going to get to a major competition again, we need to stop blaming people, the manager included (even if McDonut did have the tactical know how of turkey twizzler) and tell the over hyped national team to play as one.

At the moment, English football has come under a load of pressure about having too many foreigners and that grass roots footie is on its arse...no its not. Its the fact that places are awarded in the team mainly out of whether the fans like em and if they would have a strop if they were dropped. Fair enough, we had injury problems, but surely there are enough skilled talented players in the under-21 squad which would of relished the challenge to play with the big boys, meaning we wouldn't be stuck playing a formation designed on the back of a napkin...

As for the premier league today, well there was goals, upsets, sending off, the cliched word (passion) and more goals. Creators and providers of some of those were in the team on Wednesday. My view is in order to sort the problem out, Simply get them playing as a team, and less as a ego trip.
Cya
Josh