I was thinking Scotland really playing their hearts out, back in at 2-2 with Spain(albeit with some crap players playing for them but enough of their top players for it to be impressive) and England 0-0 with Montenegro, it suddenly dawned on me how it could get worse, no, not conceding but that we might actually bring on Davies. Then I flicked back to ITV again and see we've stooped even lower(literally) and brought on SWP.
THe first few games since the world cup were not remotely encouraging, it was a very average team beating very very bad teams quite easily and being flattered, Montenegro are FAR from good, but they are decent enough to make England look every bit as average as they are.
Why people expect a veteran manager whose completely set in his ways, whose been fired from Real for playing insipid boring football, to manage to dramatically change his style after the world cup is beyond me.
He showed what he could produce at the world cup, he's not a fresh faced manager with time to change and the willingness, and drive, he's pretty much at the end of his career, he's never once shown an ounce of trying to get his team playing non defensive rubbish football. The idea he could turn England around is laughable, the last few games, we could have had Capello, McClown, Wrighty or Karen Brady, we'd have beaten them easily.
Johnson and Johnson, the chronically injured Ferdy, Barry, Gerrard, Rooney, Crouch shouldn't be starting and most shouldn't be in the squad. Ferdy should be in the squad but frankly he should be given a break, allowed to get some games for UTD and attempt to stay fit for a couple months before we start to rely on him again. DOes Rooney even need to get better than he is? He's playing utter crap got a new contract for more money at Utd while playing crap and continues to get like 50-100k appearances fee's as he continues to be picked for England, Johnson/Gerrard much the same, those three might improve if anyone dared to drop the lazy pratts and stop paying them so much to be crap. Barry is simple crap, always will be crap and has never been anything but mostly crap, how we continue to pick him I don't know.
The defensive midfielder half this nation see's Barry as, has seen 4 years of Lampard being played as DM and now Gerrard being played as DM, why?
Do we want to go into the Euro's with an untested back pair because we can't assume that a chronically injured pair of unavailable defenders will continue to be so? Ledly/Rio even being considered for the first team spot was ridiculous, Ledly should never have made the squad and we should have been practicing for a year without Rio involved.