bullet boy Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Gone. Hardly surprising when you consider nearly 70% of English Premier League players are foreigners!! I'm afraid that until that statistic is reversed the England national team will struggle in any major tournament. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belly47 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Hardly surprising when you consider nearly 70% of English Premier League players are foreigners!! I'm afraid that until that statistic is reversed the England national team will struggle in any major tournament. nonsense. we have only ever won one tournament as we all know, foreign players have only started dominating in last 15 years, so whats the excuse for all the other failures. we did not even qualify in 74 and 78 with no foreigners in our league set up ( apart from scots, welsh, and irish) so need to look elsewhere for the reasons im afraid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdubya Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 nonsense. we have only ever won one tournament as we all know, foreign players have only started dominating in last 15 years, so whats the excuse for all the other failures. we did not even qualify in 74 and 78 with no foreigners in our league set up ( apart from scots, welsh, and irish) so need to look elsewhere for the reasons im afraid About right, look at the % of foreign players in other leagues Italian a classic with inter regularly putting out teams with no Italian players ( chelski were the first to achieve this target of no nationals in the team mind) then look at la liga and real and barca and see who they rely on? its an international game, trouble is we dont teach technique and the kids are not playing in numbers now, to many x boxes and a lack of school fields you can have a kick about on, in my day you could play on any school field every evening and weekend, now they are fenced off like a prison camp? and any green field now has houses on. KW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 nonsense. we have only ever won one tournament as we all know, foreign players have only started dominating in last 15 years, so whats the excuse for all the other failures. we did not even qualify in 74 and 78 with no foreigners in our league set up ( apart from scots, welsh, and irish) so need to look elsewhere for the reasons im afraid So you don't think that having 70% of players in the Premier League from other countries has a bearing on the national team? I think that's nonsense. It's a major problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Poor countries and kids are hungry for success in sport, football, boxing, whatever much more incentive with super star status, also no x boxes and computers just kicking a ball about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belly47 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 So you don't think that having 70% of players in the Premier League from other countries has a bearing on the national team? I think that's nonsense. It's a major problem. entitled to your opinion of course, so I ask the question, what in your opinion is the reason for previous failures before the influx of foreign players? .......................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delburt0 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Poor countries and kids are hungry for success in sport, football, boxing, whatever much more incentive with super star status, also no x boxes and computers just kicking a ball about quite right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tam Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Sincere condolences, but when I was heading back to Luton airport yesterday the kerb sides were littered with the car flags - there were that many I actually stopped to see what it was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delburt0 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) Too lacklustre British teams finish there season and go on holiday and take time out , whereas there foreign counterparts return to there home country's live and train with there country's teammates in preperation for either the euros or the World Cup. We have 2 or 3 week together whereas such as South Korea start 24/7 training 2/3 months before a tournament. Bottom line is we are a good country as far as champions leugue goes due to overseas players but as far as good British players go we ain't got ones that are as good so chances are we ain't never going to win country cups... We just have minimal world class players at the moment and have not had these for 25 yrs.. Like it or not England are **** compared to the rest of the world... Edited June 20, 2014 by delburt0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belly47 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) Sincere condolences, but when I was heading back to Luton airport yesterday the kerb sides were littered with the car flags - there were that many I actually stopped to see what it was lol I am dreading the costa rica game, after the amount of stick I have given the scots since their defeat in 1990!!! I watched that game in Sardinia with a few hundred England fans (as that's where our games were played) in a smallish village, and the locals could not understand why we were doing the conga and celebrating scotlands defeat so much, happy days, what goes around comes around I guess Edited June 20, 2014 by belly47 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted June 21, 2014 Report Share Posted June 21, 2014 Sincere condolences, but when I was heading back to Luton airport yesterday the kerb sides were littered with the car flags - there were that many I actually stopped to see what it was In the interests of sustainability / litter prevention car mounted england flags (aka idiot identification devices) should be made of bog roll. They should still be intact by the time we crash out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkeyes Posted July 4, 2014 Report Share Posted July 4, 2014 I only got 17/2 for them to finish bottom. £20 well spent SURE WAS BALIAN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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