England don't produce good players, The obsession with turning players in to big, physical players ruins many of them and stops them developing the technical side of their game. The players we do have, are over rated by Sky and people listen to this and believe it, I mean, why would Sky tell you that English players aren't that good in just a good league in Europe? I mean... it's not like they're selling you a product.
The Youth isn't that bad, the under 21 England side aren't doing too badly. Wilshire, Rodwell, Naughton, Mancienne, Cleverly, Cattermole, Gosling, Delph, Welbeck all look decent young players.
The England team isn't as good as people believe / would have you believe.
I honestly think the only players of note in the England side are Rooney, Ferdinand, A. Cole, Gerrard
Capello, got things wrong. I felt the system was wrong, the players in certain positions were wrong, but I'm just an arm chair manager. What do I know?
He hasn't really changed anything, He just talks a good game. England still make the same mistakes, maybe it's just arrogance?
They wanted too long on the ball, they were played out of position, they were second to every ball, they didn't press enough and there was just a failure of the ability to work as a team for each other.
In this World Cup alone, England were embarrassed by Algeria, U.S.A. and Germany. Slovenia allowed England respect and time on the ball, which allowed England to turn in 45 minutes of half decent football, but still only score the single goal against the smallest Country in the World Cup.
I didn't expect much more then England to struggle through the group stages, everyone seemed so confident of beating Algeria, U.S.A. and Slovenia.
Anyway, roll on the Euro's hopefully with a better manager and a better group of players who can function as a team
