England – We will blame the soft targets as usual
Who are we going to blame for the complete disaster that is our World Cup campaign? The soft targets I expect if you read the national papers. I often think they are like a cartel that picks a target and that becomes a common theme. We know that the targets will be Capello, Upson , Heskey and the referee that missed our Lampard goal. We also know that they will roll out rubbish like it might have been different if we took Walcott or Hargreaves. Now 4-4-2 is alien to Wayne Rooney who has probably played it in 95% of the football matches he has ever played in. He didn’t get a shot in worthy of the name in four matches for goodness sake. The system isn’t the reason for that. We would have won if he had played up front on his own? Do me a favour. Why isn’t it as simple as Wayne Rooney played like Drain Rooney? He couldn’t trap a bag of sand in 3 of the 4 matches. Why is Upson the main culprit at the back when John Terry was totally, yes totally, missing from his post for all four goals ? He was absolutely terrible. He played like the kid in the under 10s who thinks he is better than everybody else and can play where he likes. Much as they will talk like team men both Terry and Rooney play like they think they are better than the rest and positional responsibility doesn’t apply to them.
Why don’t we have a manager that can speak our language ? Why do the FA continue to repeat the same old mistakes of overpaying foreign mercenaries to pick players for a job which is of national pride. The Sun headline today is ‘You have let your country down’ well it is not Capello s country and he shouldn’t be in charge. The FA have to take a stance and bring patriotism back into football. You wouldn’t need to offer a patriot a ridiculously expensive contract and you would have somebody interested in the country progressing.
Heskey was on a hiding to nothing and I feel sorry for him because virtually everybody thought he shouldn’t even be there let alone starting and the same on a smaller scale applies to Shaun Wright-Phillips. Upson was always going to get caned if we lost too but in my opinion it is Rooney and Terry that let us down on the pitch the most. Capello has also made some ridiculous decisions that left us with no goal threat and our best midfielder playing on the left wing. That failed in Portugal 2004 {six years ago] and we are still trying to make it work now. However the biggest culprits are the FA for continuing with their non patriotic policies. Don’t they notice that the passion of the supporters for their country? Don’t they know that even if we had won there is little merit in it if it is masterminded by somebody from an opposing nation? They are in danger of breaking the fans spirit by not applying basic sport principles to the national team.
