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[Football] Do England Have a DNA ??
- Thread starter The Wookiee
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Alwight! . . . I got the Aisle bit right . . . . It's washing powder and where the nose candy lands innit.
Er, everyone?
Or maybe just try and work out a way to maximise potential? Play 4-1-4-1 perhaps - Rice to protect the back four (he's good enough to do that on his own) qith Foden and Bellingham as ACMs behind the main striker (Kane - or Watkins if Kane keeps insisting on jogging around in midfield). Build the rest of the team round that - Saka on the right, Gordon or Eze on the left, whatever. Pick the best back four, and go for it - ramp up the pressure after scoring, and don't try to defend a 1-0 lead.
Simples.
Insel affe
HellBilly
Your easily pleased
hart's shirt
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Danny Murphy and Joe Hart analysis coming up on BBC2 now.
Weststander
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Against good opposition, Arsenal do not play Rice as a sole DM/pivot. Jorginho and Rice both sit deep to stifle threats.
Would he even want to?
Nobby
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- Sep 29, 2007
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I mean that’s absolutely right
Totally the same
CH had the best players in the World in the Championship and for the first two years in the Premier League
Not
One big difference - CH won things - Southgate never has and never will
Southgate would never had got the players we had promoted in the first place. We would have struggled to avoid relegation to League One
Nobby
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- Sep 29, 2007
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Thank God for that.
We don’t want him unlearning all he’s learned
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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That's the kind of player we're missing. Someone like jorginho, or a level up a kroos or modicum or pirlo. Someone that can control and dictate the pace of the game.
England rarely produce them, we generally produce all action box to box midfielders.
I guess the closest we've come in the last 20 years is Carrick.
Exactly. This whole tournament is 100% England, with the DNA passed down the generations. All the talk beforehand about being one of favourites, and how this is the 'best squad ever', and if we don't win it's because the manager's shit. (Ok, this time the manager really IS shit, and although he has been good for England and nearly re-programmed our DNA in earlier tournaments, but now his time has passed)
Fans, journalists, players, currently it's all going exactly as biologically programmed by our DNA. The expectation, then the realisation that other nations have good players too, and then the turgid 'stink the place out' performances. We just need to scrape through the group and then have the inevitable defeat at the hands of the first top nation we come up against and it's been a bog-standard tournament.
“the realisation that other nations have good players too”
You raise a really good point here. The way people go on about Bellingham, Foden, the current crop etc it’s as though no other nation has any good players. Players who, to quote a poster from yesterday, “come from the biggest clubs in world football” is not unique to England. France, Spain, Germany, plus many other seemingly smaller nations, all have similar.
The key is to get them playing as a team….which is what England always struggle with.
Let’s all remember that Southgate walked into this job by mistake. He was in the right place at the right time. Since then, at every tournament, he’s got lucky. As a result his achievements mask the reality that he is not a good football coach or manager.
He’s a great face of management, which is what half this job seems to be, but when it comes to football intelligence, he doesn’t have enough.
He’s a great face of management, which is what half this job seems to be, but when it comes to football intelligence, he doesn’t have enough.
Comrade Sam
Comrade Sam
Yes, they share 98% with chimpanzees.
on a similar level at making TV ads too.
This is exactly what I've been saying for years. Rice can't do it. Clearly, TAA is far from capable. Can Wharton or Mainoo be that player?