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SlowDownDerek
UTC Legend
Same old supportive fans too it seems. You deserve a sh*t team.
pennywiseguy
Star Player
Love watching England fail and England fans moan moreso. Lemmings.
SlowDownDerek
UTC Legend
Hahahahaha. Sh*t teams defending for 90 mins get what they deserve. Half the people on here must be gutted.
SlowDownDerek
UTC Legend
All of our group games will be crap. Attack against defence and England struggle to break teams down. International football is pretty dull in general these days but all you have to do is win.
SlowDownDerek
UTC Legend
I'm not talking about the fans that travel. Generally speaking they are positive and back the team through thick and thin. It takes a lot for England away fans to turn on the team as I'm sure the one's on here will attest to.
I just hate negative england fans who blame players for lack of passion or effort and accuse them of not caring when they lose. It's nonsense. We've been through it all before but if the English press and fans backed the team no matter what maybe the wouldn't continuously collapse under the pressure - look at Wales.
Ken Baileys Ghost
Plastic
No, it'st the players that are afraid of failure.
Forget the massive wages etc., the bulk of players in the EPL are foreign and their national sides seem to do ok.
England have a mindset that is passed on from team to team where flair is stifled and grinding out results is the norm.
I'm blamimg over expectation from the media as a starter.
Not the England fans, they just get wound up by the media.
SlowDownDerek
UTC Legend
Only the one's that contribute to making player's lives hell well they inevitably fail. Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Stevie G, Phil Neville, Frank Lampard, David Beckham, etc etc have all said they think the reason England always fail is because the players can't handle the pressure. Rooney and Sterling in particular have been treated disgracefully since the Euros but no, it's obviously because they get paid too much and don't care (because obviously those international footballers who do well get paid buttons).
SlowDownDerek
UTC Legend
In fairness you are probably right about it being media led. Every player should sweat blood but apparently journos doing their level best to disrupt and cause divisions in the squads are fine. Each fan is responsible for how they behave though so if you let the press goad you into being a negative fan who contributes to the pressure then you only have yourself to blame. As AFCB fans we know full well what impact backing a team through thick and thin has on their performance.
DJ
Moderator
Only caught the end of the England debate on ITV, but in the midst of bemoaning Joe Hart's move to Italy and Jack Wilshere's move to Bournemouth they were discussing winter breaks so that the squad were not so tired when it came to major tournaments...
Glenn Hoddle was also suggesting that soon a lot of players in the England squad would come from the Championship, but apparently that should have a big overhaul of being split into two "groups" of 16, purely for the benefit of England.
Personally against both ideas. England is the envy of the world in regards to our football pyramid, leave it well alone especially considering international football is fastly becoming an irrelevance.
Glenn Hoddle was also suggesting that soon a lot of players in the England squad would come from the Championship, but apparently that should have a big overhaul of being split into two "groups" of 16, purely for the benefit of England.
Personally against both ideas. England is the envy of the world in regards to our football pyramid, leave it well alone especially considering international football is fastly becoming an irrelevance.
