Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB View Post
I don't know why everybody is so surprised...

We didn't even qualify for the Euro's. How exactly do you go from that to winning the world cup? Just making it past the first stage will be an improvement.

We are not an elite world class team... it's not the management, the players don't need to get inspired to awake some slumbering football rapture - we're just not that good, not much more to it than that I'm afraid.

If we were that good and it was management and tactics etc, then maybe we'd have only beaten Algeria (who haven't been in the world cup for 24 years and who's captain had never been in an international tornament) by 4 nil and not 5 nil. Not had a goaless draw

Massive hype job... everytime round... ignore the papers...

No ammount of changes is going to have us beating Brazil, Spain, France, Argentinia etc. no fucking chance.

That's why I loved it when Newcastle went down... all these dick heads blaming the club owners and saying that Newcastle were a slumbering giant... as big as Chelsea etc... fuck off

This post is ridiculous Adam. So are you saying we should just give up supporting our national team and that we'll never amount to anything?

Beside's it crap, as we SHOULD be good. We have some of the biggest clubs in the world, in fact I believe Man Utd is the biggest, we have arguably the best and richest premiership league in world football, and we have undoubtably several absolute world class players.

With the players, domestic infrastructure, fanbase, money, name etc we should be one of the top 4 or 5 teams in Europe no excuses.

Players like Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard etc could get into virtually any national team in the world. But they are not simply not performing.

That's not the best these players can do, not even close.