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There are 2 reasons why Smalling, Jones, Carrick, Cleverley, Young and Wellbeck continue to get picked for England:
Uncle Roy has got his hands tied, it is the FA's prerogative to play long balls and percentage football, tactics that the better World teams learned to cope with and left behind in the 1980's. (Don't get me wrong, there's a place for it, as an alternative, not as a main tactic).
The premier league has at last, finally, started to leave this crap behind in the last 3 years with Mancini, Pellegrini, Wenger, Rodgers, Laudrup, Martinez and Pochettino producing a better brand of football. Now England need to leave this system behind, stop teaching it to young coaches and get the players playing in a style that will make England competitive against the top dozen sides in the World.
Until then I will remain largely not arsed about how the England team do.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/dec/01/premier-league-long-balls-prozone-data" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2 ... ozone-data</a>
Uncle Roy has got his hands tied, it is the FA's prerogative to play long balls and percentage football, tactics that the better World teams learned to cope with and left behind in the 1980's. (Don't get me wrong, there's a place for it, as an alternative, not as a main tactic).
The premier league has at last, finally, started to leave this crap behind in the last 3 years with Mancini, Pellegrini, Wenger, Rodgers, Laudrup, Martinez and Pochettino producing a better brand of football. Now England need to leave this system behind, stop teaching it to young coaches and get the players playing in a style that will make England competitive against the top dozen sides in the World.
Until then I will remain largely not arsed about how the England team do.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/dec/01/premier-league-long-balls-prozone-data" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2 ... ozone-data</a>
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jaigurugoat said:
He might get in instead of Lallana/Townsend but I'm going off what I expect the squad to be, mine would be completely different!
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Milner won't get in ahead of Townsend, the mission for this world cup is to give as many fans sitting in row Z souvenir footballs as possible, Jimmy just doesn't cut it.supercity88 said:
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Fuck me I might just wank myself silly an not bother with the world cup this yearsupercity88 said:
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I'm supporting Zaba and Sergio, we didn't qualify so...BoyBlue_1985 said:
Pigeonho
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Ginger Groves was slating the inclusion of uniteds players, especially Cleverley, this morning. 'Hodgson the politician', he called him. lol.
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England team on Wednesday, for me, should be -
Hart
Johnson-Cahill-Smalling-Baines
Gerrard-Wilshere
Ox-Rooney-Sterling
Sturridge
Hart
Johnson-Cahill-Smalling-Baines
Gerrard-Wilshere
Ox-Rooney-Sterling
Sturridge
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Only 1 more sleep to go!