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England Beats Kazakhstan At Wembley. Is There Any Reason To Rejoice? None At All

October 12, 2008

England Beats Kazakhstan At Wembley. Is There Any Reason To Rejoice? None At AllI have said it many times before and I’ll say it again: the English national football team sucks. Big time. These overpaid, overrated, oversexed players are hopeless. Absolutely hopeless. They don’t have any desire to play for their country. They are paid too much by their clubs to care.   So what if England has beaten the Kazakh team 5:1 in the World Cup qualifier at Wembley yesterday? The Kazakhs are ranked 131st in the world, which makes them amateurs compared to England. They should have been beaten by those so-called stars of English football 10:0 or even 15:0.

And England couldn’t even score in the first half. Yes, in case you haven’t watched this pathetic match, the English national team, which supposedly includes the best of the best of English football, could not score even once in the first half. So what if they scored four times in the second half? Because one was an own goal by the Kazakhs themselves, who probably felt sorry for their hosts and decided to boost their spirits a bit. England was playing one of the worst teams in the world and it should have opened the score in the first five minutes of the first half at least, and continued scoring throughout the whole match. By the way, if Kuchma wouldn’t have scored an own goal on the 64th minute the score would have been 1:1 on the 68th minute and no one knows how the match would have ended then.

Let me say something important here: the real quality of football players shows not when they play on club level, but when they play for their national teams. On club level they are like Pavlov’s dogs: they do everything instinctively, automatically, having been trained every day to perform as a team. But when they play for their national squad they have to really demonstrate great skills, being forced to improvise. Because players selected for national squads don’t train together a lot. And that is why they have to demonstrate real skill on the pitch.

England did not demonstrate much on Saturday at Wembley. And these are athletes, who play football for a living. It’s their job and they do it every day. Every day! How pathetic and incompetent can you be not to score once against a third rate team in 45 minutes of the first half plus another 7 minutes in the second? And they call themselves professionals and are paid a fortune each.

Premiership footballers are spoilt by all that money from the moment they join the first teams in their clubs. How stupid can all these football bosses be if they don’t understand that you can’t pay young men in their teens and early twenties hundreds of thousands a month?

This has nothing to do with nurturing talent, of course. It is all about greed, because all those football directors pay their players so much not because they like them or care for their future. Oh no. It is all much simpler than that. They pay them a fortune because they then can reward themselves very generously. They can always say that as their top players get half a million a month they, the directors, are also entitled to be paid a lot. It’s as simple as that. It’s got nothing to do with rewarding ability. Don’t fall for that rubbish, please.

Now, with all that money that young players get excess becomes just one step away. Because if you give young, not very bright men a lot of money they are bound to spend it on something very stupid. Footballers playing for top clubs get quickly sucked into an atmosphere of exuberance, when some players can easily blow a fortune on night clubs, on drink, on women and gambling. Premiership footballers are notorious for partying and womanising. In a trashy sort of way, that is, with no style and no class.

And, of course, such a lifestyle impacts of footballers’ performances and the process of recovering from injuries becomes longer as their bodies are weakened by all that booze and, in some cases, dope. So the players have to think really hard about saving their strength for the end of the season, when the fate of all those trophies is decided and relegation has to be avoided at all costs. So why should they bother to give their all playing for the national team?

And so we end up with the sort of performances we saw yesterday at Wembley. Actually, in the first half England played abysmally so pay no attention to all those football commentators, who are already praising the English squad. These commentators make a living out of writing about football. So they can’t just write off these pathetic ball pushers and lose such a juicy subject as the trials and tribulations of the English national football team.

A team consisting of players, who aren’t too bothered to even demonstrate a desire to win, can’t really perform well, can it? They don’t even care when they are booed off the pitch by their fans! They actually complain, the spoilt overpaid brats, that they do not deserve such a treatment. How about that? Fans should worship them, even if they don’t bother to make an effort.

Pathetic!

And you can replace the managers of the English squad as many times as you want and they still won’t be able to achieve anything. Because if the players don’t want to give it a hundred per cent, there is nothing any manager can do. Even a great one like Fabio Capello.

Player’s loyalties nowadays run solely with their clubs, which pay them all that money. They don’t really care what happens in all those international tournaments. After the way England humiliatingly crashed out of Euro 2008 most of the players should have been barred from representing their country ever again. Enough is enough, they should have been told. You’re out.

The English Football Association should have selected young unknown footballers for the national squad, who’d keen and willing to prove themselves on the pitch. It’s all rubbish about the need for players in the national squad to have experience. What experience would that be? To pretend to play while not actually playing? Is that the sort of experience they are talking about? Because the current England’s squad has a lot of it. It is brimming with experience.

And another thing: why on earth doesn’t the FA say to the Premiership clubs that it is time to invest into local talent and stop buying all those ready-made stars from abroad? Because the English national team, unfortunately, can’t include foreign players. That’s how the rules work, you see.

It is embarrassing to watch clubs like Arsenal pretending to be English. Sure, they play good football, but what has it got to do with England? Who is it from England that is actually plying for the club? Theo Wilcott? OK, who else of any quality?

Exactly.

And what is so great about Arsene Wenger if he could not produce four or five really strong English players? The man can’t even give proper post-match interviews. We played well and they played well, he says a lot. I sometimes find myself wanting to scream at the screen: ‘Then why the hell did you lose if your team played as well as your opponents, you jerk?’

The man hasn’t won any serious silverware for the club for the fourth consecutive year – because the FA cup, let’s face it, is not a serious trophy – and still everyone says that he is the greatest and that and the team plays the best football in the Premiership.

Yeah, sure, the best football that brings no trophies. As in art for art’s sake.

I’m not even mentioning all those managers down the league. Their faces alone say everything about them. They get paid a fortune and they still can’t even learn to properly talk to the journalists. Why don’t they hire someone who could at least describe the matches in a proper way that would be of interest to the fans? No, we keep hearing these inarticulate people stating the bloody obvious or making no sense at all.

And, by the way, when these managers are sacked for not doing their job well, why do they surface practically immediately in some other top club? What the hell is so difficult about being a football manager, especially if you can pick any player you want from around the world?

I could never understand personally what was so great about Chelsea’s managers, for example. Excuse me, but Roman Abramovich had pumped close to a billion into the club. And still they can’t win the European League. And now that Mr Abramovich has lost some money as a result of the financial crisis, what would happen to Chelsea? Would they be relegated this or next season because of lack of financial incentive among the players and coaches?

It has come to point when the FA can’t even find an English manager to manage the national football team. How sad is that?

I don’t really understand who in the world goes to watch the English squad play. You really must have nothing else to do if you are satisfied with such level of football.

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