Well Capello has gone now and the dream is alive again,the sportswriters are in overdrive fingers burning as they type away,and the they have chosen Redknapp ,so now anyone else who might get the job has no chance he is beating before he starts,so it seems it will be Rednapps if he wants it.
The great sportswriters who know so much so much more than the best managers maybe ,or do they?why dont they scream for one of their own,Oliver Holt for example?
They miss one thing,they seem to think Englands failure is due to picking the wrong manager,is that really why England have failed so badly since 1966 ?
Lets look at Capello,is he a bad manager?his record says no.is it the players?for some reason the press always seem to think not ,get Harry in now get an English manager ,what nationality was Hoddle?Keegan?MacLaren?
Lets look at the players,where are the world class players?the last world cup England didnt have a goalkeeper that came anywhere near that?they lacked a left sided midfield player of class,a balanced midfield and a lack of depth in the centre of defence,not to mention a right back.and also a Wayne Rooney in one of his sulking moods.
There has been improvement since the last world cup some young players are coming through ,there is something to build on ,buts thats all it is ,maybe Harry can get a bit more out of them,but that will still leave them way short of the best in Europe .
At the moment Wayne Rooney when he is at his best and kicking the ball not players is maybe just about world class but has yet to come near it at a major tournament for England.who else?Steven Gerrard?a few years ago maybe yes,now i a good player not world class,Lampard never really has been and certainly not now,John Terry has never really been he has always lacked pace and that has been more evident in the last few years,Rio Ferdinand maybe 3 years ago or more no way now ,Ashley Cole yes maybe but again a few years ago he might have been but just doesnt seem quite as good as he was.
So England have perhaps one genuine world class player in a team that is changing new players coming in and probably still trying to find out what is its best team,
Lets look at the premier league take for example Man Utd ,Man City,Chelsea,and Spurs,possibly the top 4 look at the English players Terry ,Cole,Sturridge,Lampard,Barry,Hart,Lescott,Richards,Smalling,Ferdinand ,Jones,Welbeck,Carrick,Scholes,Cleverley,Rooney,Owen,Dawson,Dfoe,Lennon,out of a squad of 20 players at each club we have we 20 out of 80, take out Scholes doesnt want to play ,Owen never fit enough,Carrick and Lescott not good enough,that leaves 16,then Terry ,Ferdinand and Cole with their best years behind them it doesnt look good,and you can look at the rest of the teams and its a similar picture.
How many English players are good enough to play for the top teams in Spain?or Germany or Italy for that matter.
Who out of that lot Rooney maybe,Ashley Cole possibly but getting to old,Hart maybe ,Sturridge might be in time,and thats it,
Maybe now we are at the problem England dont have enough good players and certainly no depth,and the solution isnt to keep convincing everyone that its the wrong manager,wrong nationality of manager,wrong age,etc etc England have been down that road so many times ,but seems they will only realise that when they read team sheet joe bloggs Brighton,right back Millwall, left back Carlisle,central defender Hull cantral defender Mansfield,right midfield Bury etc and the fact that there soon will be no English players good enough to play in the Premier League ,Ghana ,Ivory Coast,Nigeria,Senegal,Mexico,Bulgaria,Serbia,Uruguay,Wales,Ireland,Northern Ireland,Scotland,none of them Football super powers all have many players in the Premier League USSR,USA,Italy,Spain,Holland,Germany,all blocking English players coming in to teams,and it increases each year,but no its the managers fault .
England have been going downhill for along time ,and until there are more English players playing for Premier League teams it will only get worse ,people spoke of a golden generation it turned out it was rusty metal,
So the sad truth is the players are just not good enough,and the players tweeting who they want as manager does not help ,whoever gets the job knows which players wanted him and who didnt,and if it isnt Rednapp who seems to be the players choice the new manager wont have much time before the players start having tantrums.
So i think one of the first things the FA can do is tell any player who wants to play for England that speaking about on twitter getting involved is such discussions getting involved in all the arguments such the Evra -Suarez Terry- Ferdinand cases will not be chosen for England,
I think anyone could tell that Rio Ferdinand would back his brother,but it was between the FA , Terry and Ferdinand and then obviously when charged the police,but Rio got stuck in Joey Barton had his say and so many more,and situations are then created where things which maybe could have been sorted out have developed into such large issues that certain players cant play in the same team as each other.
So there we have it more false dreams ,i hope Harry doesnt take the job he is to good for it,with England he will work with less quality than he does now ,Van Der Vart,Gareth Bale,Modric, all better than anything England have,he has been with teams that could never really challenge at the top ,he is doing a fantastic job at Spurs he is so close to doing something sensational there,at England he will become another Mclaren, Keegan,Hoddle,and i think that would be so sad.
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