Mighty good of you Sven

Just a quick post. I really gained respect for Sven today. In terms of a manager, I still think him to be an average and negative manager, someone who learnt his trade in the Serie A (and that’s why I am weary about Fabio Capello taking the England job, but that’s another story) . In a Manchester City press conference he was asked by a journalist if he had any self-satisfaction about the current fortunes of the England team, which now puts his tenure him in a better light. He replied, and I believe him to be sincere on this, of course not. He in fact felt sorry for the team’s failure. I thought that was good of him, and it was not just a diplomatic reply.

I don’t know what to say about England, a lot has already been said in the press, some stuff I believe to be accurate, others to be over the top. I might do a longer post about it later, but just quickly, I honestly think it comes down to the basic fact that England don’t have any depth in their squad,  the starting eleven are a good team, and worthy of a quarter final and possibly a semi-final spot in major tournaments. With an astute manager, like Joachim Löw of Germany, maybe even further. But if injury should happen to befall England, then the team does suffer. So the talk of any possible English talent being drained out of the premier league because of the influx of players from abroad is partly true. There are other factors for England’s failure, obviously McLaren is tactically naieve to say the least, if not completely baffling. Then there is the fact that McLaren continously overlooked good players, especially strikers — Lita, Walcott and Agbonlahor. He also included players whom I thought should have never been chosen e.g. Lescott — who was exposed in both the Russia and Croatia matches.   That’s enough for now!