England 2-3 Croatia - toot toot hee hee
I've never felt so alive. This truly was an historical astonishing failure. The worst since the Battle of Hastings the Sun are probably saying. Shame Eduardo didn't score, but what a fantastic result nontheless. This is great news from my point of view because I really resent the England national team and the morons who follow it in vans with little St George's flag attached to the roof. But even England supporters should breath a sigh of relief that England have failed to qualify from a group containing six countries who's combined population is less than London's. Except for Russia.
I say this is good news, obviously it leaves a lot of people with nothing to get excited about next summer, but for England's World Cup prospects in 2010 this was the best possible outcome. Steve McClaren will now have to accept that his vocation in life was never meant to be International football, he's a photocopier salesman at best and good luck to him.
Who though, who though, shall replace him and put things right again. Again? Who will put things right. My money is on no one as it's really the players who are to blame because they don't care. I've explained why previously, so let's not get into that again. Slavan Bilic hit the nail on the head in his interview this evening when he stated Croatia were simply a better team; team being the operative word. Not necessarily better players, but certainly a better team. They didn't need to win, they had already qualified, but they did win, because they are a proud nation and the players are as proud as the fans.
Anyways...from a punting point of view as this is really the only point of interest for me, the next England manager market represents some intriguing possibilities as no one single dude stands out. This may represent some value in the form of Alan Shearer at around 16/1 and more intriguingly Steve Bruce at 66/1 who suspiciously did not become Wigan's new manager today for no apparent reason.
Obviously Steve Bruce has achieved fuck all in the way of managerial success, but neither had McClaren, Glenda Hoddle or Kevin Keegan. They were English though and thanks to Sven's horrendous tenure, 'foreigners' are a no no for the national coach. Steve Bruce at least won things as a player. He's also from the north-east as is Shearer and this seems to be of significance for some reason.
So then, a few shillings on Messrs Shearer and Bruce to replace McClaren and why not?
I say this is good news, obviously it leaves a lot of people with nothing to get excited about next summer, but for England's World Cup prospects in 2010 this was the best possible outcome. Steve McClaren will now have to accept that his vocation in life was never meant to be International football, he's a photocopier salesman at best and good luck to him.
Who though, who though, shall replace him and put things right again. Again? Who will put things right. My money is on no one as it's really the players who are to blame because they don't care. I've explained why previously, so let's not get into that again. Slavan Bilic hit the nail on the head in his interview this evening when he stated Croatia were simply a better team; team being the operative word. Not necessarily better players, but certainly a better team. They didn't need to win, they had already qualified, but they did win, because they are a proud nation and the players are as proud as the fans.
Anyways...from a punting point of view as this is really the only point of interest for me, the next England manager market represents some intriguing possibilities as no one single dude stands out. This may represent some value in the form of Alan Shearer at around 16/1 and more intriguingly Steve Bruce at 66/1 who suspiciously did not become Wigan's new manager today for no apparent reason.
Obviously Steve Bruce has achieved fuck all in the way of managerial success, but neither had McClaren, Glenda Hoddle or Kevin Keegan. They were English though and thanks to Sven's horrendous tenure, 'foreigners' are a no no for the national coach. Steve Bruce at least won things as a player. He's also from the north-east as is Shearer and this seems to be of significance for some reason.
So then, a few shillings on Messrs Shearer and Bruce to replace McClaren and why not?
2 comments:
Couldn't agree more with this post, would have been disgraceful had we qualified. Give Coppell or Redknapp the job right now, and then we could claim our rightful place as a losing quarter finalist in a major tournament again.
In a way i hope your right about Bruce although i don't think he'l be much good. I'd go for Shearer, just think he'l bring some steel and will have many a friendly to get the hang of being a manager.
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