England squad

I'm English, born and bred. I love my country, the good bits and the bad bits. And I would fight to the very end of my life to defend this country. I'm also a football fan, and have been since I was a kid. Football has played a huge part of my life, over the years it has made me new friends, taken me to places I'd never normally have gone to, and it has kept me relatively fit and healthy throughout my life.

Given this, I have to ask myself why I am -and have been for a long, long time- so indifferent to an England team that represents my country, and why I couldn't care less who plays for us and who doesn't?
I'm tempted to say age. I'm in my mid-60's now, so maybe that is why my enthusiasm for the England team has diminished to the point of downright apathy. To the point where I'd rather switch the TV off than sit through another 90-plus minutes of dull, unimaginative, stagnant football that was going out of fashion when Sir Alf was booted out back in the early 70's.

I watch City's football and I wonder why this one sport can be interpreted so differently. How is it that I can watch us and almost salivate at the beauty and the magic of Pep's brand of football, and then sit there in a state of near narcolepsy whenever my national team plays?

It makes me wonder if any Spanish fans would prefer not watch their national side play, or German fans watch theirs, or Lithuanian fans...whatever.
 
FantasyIreland said:
While that FA puppet is in charge,i won't be bothering with Internationals.The man is a clueless,uninspiring,nodding donkey with a face i'd never get tired of punching.

I'm not a fan.
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Agreed. Its come to something when you want your own nation fucking heavily beaten most games.

Good to see you posting mate.
 
Mike Cledford said:
The WC run was not taxing.
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I'm sure we're the only nation on earth that scoffs at reaching a World Cup Semi Final and harps on about how easy our run was, how bad we played, how lucky we was etc etc...

I'm sure even if we won the World Cup some would just say we were rubbish, didn't deserve it, bla bla

It's a shame, but it's obvious some just dislike England no matter what so will always just say every manager is a FA Lapdog, only picks players on club colours, is too boring etc etc

doesn't matter who the manager is.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
It's a shame, but it's obvious some just dislike England no matter what so will always just say every manager is a FA Lapdog, only picks players on club colours, is too boring etc etc
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Bollocks.

Two great managers in Bobby Robson and Terry Venables,had the entire country singing from the same hymn sheet,great times and fans simply couldn't get enough of our National team - They made us proud.
 
KentBlue said:
I'm English, born and bred. I love my country, the good bits and the bad bits. And I would fight to the very end of my life to defend this country. I'm also a football fan, and have been since I was a kid. Football has played a huge part of my life, over the years it has made me new friends, taken me to places I'd never normally have gone to, and it has kept me relatively fit and healthy throughout my life.

Given this, I have to ask myself why I am -and have been for a long, long time- so indifferent to an England team that represents my country, and why I couldn't care less who plays for us and who doesn't?
I'm tempted to say age. I'm in my mid-60's now, so maybe that is why my enthusiasm for the England team has diminished to the point of downright apathy. To the point where I'd rather switch the TV off than sit through another 90-plus minutes of dull, unimaginative, stagnant football that was going out of fashion when Sir Alf was booted out back in the early 70's.

I watch City's football and I wonder why this one sport can be interpreted so differently. How is it that I can watch us and almost salivate at the beauty and the magic of Pep's brand of football, and then sit there in a state of near narcolepsy whenever my national team plays?

It makes me wonder if any Spanish fans would prefer not watch their national side play, or German fans watch theirs, or Lithuanian fans...whatever.
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Good post , a few reasons i can see :

1. International Football is just not that exciting, especially the qualifiers - small nations try their best to keep the score down and make it scrappy, also most international teams have not gelled like club teams, a lot of players aren't used to playing with each other, so are more cautious, there's very few free flowing amazing international football teams, Argentina and even Brazil have looked poor in recent years despite the amazing names they have.
late stages of the Euros and World Cup their is a great buzz and only had to look at the celebrations up and down the country when we made it to the semi's, but it comes round so rarely.

2. Club Tribal mentality - if a few United players are in the England team, then City fans won't want them to play well - i'm sure some even want us to lose because of who's selected. I know Hammers fans go mad at the amount of Spurs players in the team, even question how Kane starts - totally blinkered.

3. we're a nation of moaners - we just moan no matter what, so much so, it weighs heavy - if you cut off from social media and forums - you'd see we're really not that bad.
 
FantasyIreland said:
Bollocks.

Two great managers in Bobby Robson and Terry Venables,had the entire country singing from the same hymn sheet,great times and fans simply couldn't get enough of our National team - They made us proud.
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don't disagree, but they were pre social media days.
we could have a Bobby Robson and Terry Venables now and it would be the same level of moaning we have now under southgate
 
I see the chirpy cheeky England/FA fanboy has emerged from underneath his Bobby Moore duvet ;-)
 
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