| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. 10:22 - Jul 9 with 5205 views | SpiritofGregory |
I've heard that the FA have published a report on why England failed at the world cup.
Why publish a report just copy the German model. |  | | |  |
| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. on 17:58 - Jul 9 with 1455 views | THEBUSH |
OK, the FA are useless we know that, but when England have had decent managers we have also done better than in Brazil.
I just hope Hodgson learns from his mistakes in Brazil and takes us forward. |  | | |
| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. on 18:02 - Jul 9 with 1453 views | TGRRRSSS |
No relevance really everyone is owned by foreighners and have the likes of Arsene Wenger demanding we end international football.
I notice however he took a (presumably paid) job working for French TV during the World Cup though the hypocrite [Post edited 9 Jul 2014 18:10]
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| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. on 22:45 - Jul 13 with 1381 views | SpiritofGregory |
Time to copy the Germans. | | | |
| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. on 08:14 - Jul 14 with 1317 views | qprmick |
The man who knows a bit about winning World Cups (Loew) says the Premier League with all its foreigners is our downfall, I tend to agree with him. We also seem to have a shortage of skills coaches. We also pay too much money for mediocrity. |  |
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| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. on 08:24 - Jul 14 with 1312 views | TacticalR |
| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. on 22:45 - Jul 13 by SpiritofGregory |
Time to copy the Germans. |
Have we finished copying the Spanish? |  |
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| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. on 11:39 - Jul 14 with 1286 views | robith |
It's interesting - copy the Spanish, no wait, copy the Germans. When both of those teams achieved success by having a system that best suits their idiosyncratic underlying footballing philosophies.
England needs to pick a style that suits it best - probably pacey, athletic counter attack, and gear the system to playing that.
The main thing that blights the game is the focus from a very early age of win at all costs instead of focusing on teaching skills as kids are developing. Messi probably would've been turfed out of an English academy for being too small.
Also if you want another reason why England failed, the commentary from the Brazil chile game, incredulous at the fact that Chile's back three played for such terrible clubs. England has a total blindsight to individual ability over the system and the team - see Hodgson who I usually rate for team building still not having the guts to drop Rooney as he doesn't fit the system.
That's how you can start to change the grass roots and have better English players coming through. Changing the grasp of the elite on the English game? Too late. It's broken beyond all repair and only its total collapse could see it replaced |  | | |
| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. on 17:04 - Jul 14 with 1261 views | RangersAreBack |
Copy the Spanish? I must have missed that one. England couldn't tippy tappy their way out of a paper bag. Makes more sense to investigate a model based on a footballing identity closer to our own.
However this will only work if we effect a culture change also. Focus the youth on skills as opposed to targets. Refocus their minds on winning as they enter their teens and ensure they understand that it's more important than the taking part. Take the U21 competitions seriously to prepare players for the demands of senior international football. Select players that care for their country and who buy into a team ethic. Hire a manager who's more than an FA puppet and isn't afraid to make tough decisions like dropping high profile players when they don't perform. Introduce a winter break and ensure the national team is viewed as the pinnacle of the game not a mere sideshow.
I could go on. The point is just merely copying the German model will not suffice. The mentality and attitude must also be right for it to work. This comes naturally to the Germans but is sorely lacking in the UK. |  | | |
| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. on 18:33 - Jul 14 with 1246 views | derbyhoop |
| I hope Germany win the world cup and show the FA how it's done. on 12:21 - Jul 9 by Bluce_Ree |
Ugh.
Firstly can we all just take a breath from sucking off Germans? F**k them. I hope they lose in the final.
Anyway, yes. They are much better at football than us and all that. We could revamp our entire league system, yes. We could build academies everywhere and insist that every professional match has a bunch of homegrown young'uns in there. We could put foreign player limits in.
We could do all that. But why should we? So that England go a round or two further each tournament? Why on Earth would we want to do that?
Listen, I'd love it if England were good but that's such a small part of football for me. Yeah it'd be nice but f**k it, I'll take QPR being in the Prem with all the money, drama, nonsense, rubbishness, primadonna Chelsea c**ts, foreign players and everything else and once every two years I'll tut a bit because England are bollocks. |
"Firstly can we all just take a breath from sucking off Germans? F**k them. I hope they lose in the final.
Anyway, yes. They are much better at football than us and all that. We could revamp our entire league system, yes. We could build academies everywhere and insist that every professional match has a bunch of homegrown young'uns in there. We could put foreign player limits in. "
The suggestion about revamping our League system caused outrage below the Premiership elite, is is unlikely to get off the ground.
We could build academies - but who's going to pay for them. Costs would be £1-2m as a minimum. Why would a L1 club run a proper academy, knowing that the PL big boys could hoover up their best players for about £200K.
Insisting on home grown young uns breaks EU laws on freedom of movement
We could, possibly, tighten the rules on non-EU players but are we going to get rid of Aguero, Zabaleta, Hernandez, Willian, Oscar, etc. Would the PL clubs stand for it.
If we want better players, we have to offer more professional coaching and ensure that the players get the chance to develop through playing at the highest possible level.
Don't expect any serious movement on that in the next 5 years. |  |
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