ENGLAND WANKERS DUMP ON SUPPORTERS

A brief message to all those misguided followers and fans of England’s football team. It is as I’ve said in my recent post about England’s chances in the World Cup. After last night’s game against Uruguay perhaps you’ve now got the message. A two-one defeat and almost certainly dumped out the tournament. I’m sorry, I really wish it wasn’t the case but that’s how it is. It’s almost certainly not entirely the fault of the players who in last night’s game showed some spirit. Trouble is their passing and shooting skills were often woeful and they gave the ball away more times than I care to remember. And I’m talking about basic professional skills for which they earn so much money. Furthermore if I’m talking about woeful and inadequate it’s because that’s what they were. A huge but entirely predictable disappointment.

Let’s face it, it was all on the cards. Two pathetic pre-tournament draws with Ecuador and Honduras, teams they should have beaten out of sight, should have told us the worst. Then a pathetic defeat by Italy after which the signs were so big on the wall that it could have been Banksy. True against Uruguay they at least showed some fighting spirit only it just wasn’t enough. There was no sign that coach and management had sat down with players to seriously work out what had to be done. Victory was everything and in order to achieve this a serious assessment had to be made of exactly what was needed. Into this equation the return of the brilliant Uruguayan player Suarez had to be placed foremost. Blot him out and their opponents would be reduced to the kind of team who were thrashed by Costa Rica. Allow him to run free and do what he liked almost certainly meant doom and that’s exactly what happened. Two opportunist goals by their unmarked star player and it was all over.

Question then. Why wasn’t Suarez who’d shown such deadly form playing for Liverpool in last season’s Premier League not man marked? Tracked and followed by at least one defender? Two would have been best! After all, Uruguay had already demonstrated that they were virtually useless without him. The man was not only a devastatingly skilled player but also inspirational for his team and a talisman. With this more than clear and a victory in the game so important for England’s ability to progress in the tournament a serious risk assessment should have been made and appropriate action taken. The result of this failure is there for all to see. What we are looking at here is a serious lack of professionalism by coach and management resulting in a dreadful disappointment for all the millions of fans at home and those who paid large sums of money to go to Brazil.

I don’t need to imagine the pain and disappointment, the ghastly frustration. I myself not only felt it but knew it would happen. All the signs were there weeks and months back. All the millions of fans full of high hopes and led to the trough only to taste mild and bitter. We’re talking of professional players who earn serious dosh turning out to be unimaginative, semi-skilled dilettantes, indulging in the lazy habit of too often passing the ball backward. True, it was better than the fiasco against Italy, talked up as a great performance by television pundits earning great money whose job it is to do just that. Talk up rotten performances for the great army of hopefuls. So already defeated by Italy something had to be done. Aggressive, adventurous positive play guarding against any danger, the only real one being Suarez! And the result of this appalling failure… to carefully consider the circumstances, carefully analyze and realistically assess exactly what had to be done… was the real possibility of defeat. Exactly what happened.

Imagine what the players felt? All the talk on the television, all the endless talk in the press. In this kind of situation there’s no room for tactical error let alone that of strategy. England never had a united consolidated team to begin what with all the chopping and changing of players over the last year but some had shown themselves to have skill, like Lallana and Barkley. So exactly how prominent a part were they given?

And then what was the other result of it all. Millions of hopes dashed and endless rowdy liquor fuelled parties of people maybe somehow edging just a fraction closer to reality. That England’s performances over their last four games, two friendlies and two deadly serious were rotten. Sorry, never mind how all the talk it up boys are talking it up. Their play was plain rotten so let’s go away and face up to it all. Forget about a great qualification miracle. Beating Costa Rica ten-one and maybe progressing. I don’t even want to think about it! England’s progression doesn’t depend on them anyway! No, there’s only two things that need to happen when they get back. Firstly Roy Hodgson resigns, which he’s already said that he won’t! Secondly, that those with the power in the business go and talk to Harry Redknapp, get down on their knees and beg him to take over. That way in four years’ time millions of English people will have something to celebrate.

And that’s all I’ve got to say about that!