Sweet FA

[Guest MOB Snr]

Sweet fck All That is all we have!

 

I do not blame McClaren, I blame the dipsticks at the FA that gave him the job. When are we going to change things at the FA, we all have opinions on who should be England Manager, none of them include McClaren.

 

We are England we play 4-4-2 we got beat because we lacked understanding of our own game, we played Lampard where we should have played a striker. 4-5-1 and the 1 is Crouch, for feck sake what are we playing at?

 

We now need a manager that has some bottle and that means Sam A or Harry R or maybe even Jose, what we really need is a breakaway FA!!!!

[Exile]

Well at least all the Premier League chairmen and most of the managers will be happy now their precious assets won't have to play in that nasty tournament next summer - instead they can have a break...Oh hold on, no they can't, they'll all be on money-spinning tours of Asia and other far-flung places (but not Austria or Switzerland...). Mind you England could always arrange to play Scotland, N Ireland and Wales (I doubt we'd win that either though)

[Matt H]

Our problem is that the most of the foreigners we're playing against are playing regularly in top flight leagues around the world. How many of the England starting line-up last night have played week in, week out in their own domestic league and how many are kept out of their Club sides by the foreigners they play against at international level?

[Angelo]

Matt you are so right!

may i add to that though, it shouldnt just be McClaren that should go, but the fecking idiots that appointed him.

Martin O'Neil should have got the job.

[goalhanger]

I'll bet Shaun Wright-Philips won't want to see any pictures of him holding his hand in the air like a schoolboy while Eduardo runs on to score. Although I suspect he was wondering where the defence was ?

I had actually forgot Lampard was playing till the micky-mouse penalty decision.

 

My money is on Martin O'Neil.

[Yellow Bungle]

Ridiculous to suggest a breakaway FA, MOB I think you know better.

 

The problem for the FA is that they have a remit that covers park teams to the national side, they rely largely on the premier league clubs for money and then have to try to rein in the premier clubs selfish ambitions which would undermine all other levels of football.

 

Like him or loathe him, Crozier tried to stand up to the bullying of the premier league and was ousted as a result. The subsequent appoitment of Palios with his supposed footballing and business expertise (business turn around at pWc)was a huge disaster. His attempt to back Eriksson into a corner left the FA with no option but to agree to Eriksson's demands which togeher with the Wembley fiasco left the FA strapped for cash and even more dependent on the big clubs.

 

With so many divert interests and a bottom-up structure which allows clubs overriding power means that the national team will never flourish.

 

Any call for an overhaul in the administration of football will not work until the money at the top of the premier league begins to dry up. Who knows, perhaps with no "Engerland" to cheer next summer all the John-come-latelies will go back to doing before Gazza cried and leave football to its spiritual owners who understand the distinction between sport and entertainment.

[The Great Eckscape]

The FA certainly need to assess themselves and the way they run the national game before investigating why we didn't qualify.

 

Cue angry programme article on Tuesday!

[YELLOW]

The national game is rotten to the core and the FA must shoulder the majority of the blame.

 

We didn't deserve to qualify for the Euro Championships and if we had of made it, all it would have done was to paper over the cracks.

 

At least this summer we can enjoy some decent football from nations who know how to play the beautiful game rather than abject failure from our excuses for footballers!!

[ken]

McClaren gets a hard time, he is as good as any other English manager and the contry was demanding an English manager. i dont get why O Neal is in such high running for the job, he is just OK and if your going to get a forign manager then get someone who is more than OK Venger, Morinio or Capello spring to mind. the reason we didnt qualify is becuase our lazy plaers put in half hearted performances becuase their clubs are more important to them than their country.

 

maybe it is time to consider a full time England squad

[Muppetus Galacticus]

Originally Posted By: ken

i dont get why O Neal is in such high running for the job, he is just OK

I think he is better than "ok" personally. After success at Wycombe (two Trophy wins and two promotions in a few years) he was at Leicester and they finished in the top half of the Premiership every season and won two League Cups (in three finals). At Celtic he took them to a treble, into the Champions League proper and a UEFA Cup final in addition to all the other silverware in Scotland.

When he went to Villa they started nine games unbeaten (league record to start a season) and now they're having a good start to this campaign and are 8th. As far as British managers go he has at least won stuff, sometimes with teams that perhaps aren't considered "winners".

Saying that though, I think a manager like Mourinho is needed as he won't have a problem benching players and their egos, nor will he take any crap from those above him.

Just don't take John Batch away!

[ken]

so 14 teams qualify for the Euros and England only drop to 12 in the world rankings. we looked worse than 12th this Campain, Scotland are 14th and they look much better than we do

[ken]

Former Liverpool midfielder Craig Johnston has launched a scathing attack on the FA, insisting they are "conning" the English public. interesting artical

[The Great Eckscape]

Got this email today, classic!:

 

WOMAN'S DIARY:

 

Wed 21st Nov 2007

 

Saw him in the evening and he was acting really strangely. I had been shopping in the afternoon with the girls and I did turn up a bit late so thought it might be that. The bar was really crowded and loud so I suggested we go somewhere quieter to talk. He was still very subdued and distracted so I suggested we go somewhere nice to eat.

 

All through dinner he just didn't seem himself; he hardly laughed and didn't seem to be paying any attention to me or to what I was saying. I just knew that something was wrong. He dropped me back home and I wondered if he was going to come in; he hesitated but followed.

 

I asked him again if there was something the matter but he just half shook his head and turned the television on.

 

After about 10 minutes of silence, I said I was going upstairs to bed.

 

I put my arms around him and told him that I loved him deeply. He just gave a sigh and a sad sort of smile. He didn't follow me up but later he did, and I was surprised when we made love. He still seemed distant and a bit cold, and I started to think that he was going to leave me and that he had found someone else.

 

I cried myself to sleep.

 

 

 

 

MAN'S DIARY:

 

Wed 21st Nov 2007

 

England lost to Croatia. Absolutely gutted. Got a shag though.

 

[YELLOW]

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