It is the English menality. If we go out as plucky losers people are happy. If we might be good at it we knock them.
Mark my words the press will eventually turn on Flintoff.
Fine the Croatia game in Euro 2004.
I thought the Wales game at Old Trafford we played well and another day could have had more than 2.
The Poland away game, not many teams go to Poland and win, but oh under Sven the Incompetant we did.
The Azerbiajan game at Newcastle again another day it...
I cannot believe you are trying to use the Denmark game in the World Cup as a shite performance. We won 3-0 for goodness sake. What was the point of knackering ourselves out in the second half when we knew we had another game to play. I would give up now, you are starting to scrap the barrel.
But when we beat Argentina in the World Cup that could be classed as punching above our weight and yet previously the mighty Easy 10 has criticised the England performance in that game. At the end of the day football is results driven, yes I want to see champagne football every week, but I am...
The thing is you say we were shite in Wales, but we got a result, OK it was a bit of a disjointed performance, but we got the job done. Last season Brighton played disjointedly an awful lot but did enough to stay up, so why accpet that on the one hand and get at Sven with the other?
If he can improve that I can actually see him eventually back at the FA. But the issue will be the press, when he starts to mess up they will just refer back to his crack pot views (a bit like Kinks).
The problem is the media have turned on him, just like they did with Robson so people just follow what they read. At least with Bobby Robson people could come up with a viable alternative in Clough (who the FA would never touch) but at present there is nobody obvious. But as long as Sven goes...