By Guest Writer John Powell.
We live in a country, with a small population and even smaller land space, than most countries in the world, yet, for some reason , every world cup competition, we think we have a great chance of winning it. We England, are just not that good, lets look at the facts, we don`t have enough quality to fill a single premier league squad, every single squad in the premier league consists of at least half a dozen foreign players.
We cudn`t even qualify for the last european football championships. We play most of our freindllies against unrated fifa countries.
Most of our big clubs sell our best young talented youngsters, and then, in chelsea`s case, try to resign them back, for many millions, years later.
Appointments such as Kevin Keegan (what a player), steve mclaren and sven goran errikson just lead me to believe, what ive thought for years, that the English F A is run by old men that have never played football and know nothing about the game.
The english FA would rather give the England job to some over the hill johnny foreigner, who has only ever tasted success, by spending uncountable millions of lira, by buyig players, and never had to work at grass roots.
Why, if Sir Alf Ramsay could win The World Cup, with no experience, do we, the english require an expensive foreigner to win it again.
I believe that England will never win a major competition, untill they have a good english manager, who has proved himself at english club level.
The english f a will find, like Man City will find, you cannot buy major trophie`s, somebody within the setup, of a club or national team, has to have knowledge, and as i can see, nobody within the england set up has any worth mentioning.
Untill Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and now Man City sart to invest in and develop our English born youngsters, in a more serious fashion, England will remain nothing but a nearly team, no amount of wayne rooney`s can save the day.
My conclusion is that, yet again the tabloid rags from fleet street will fill our tiny minds, and our mighty hearts with all the hopes we need to be convinced, once again, that we can and will, win The World Cup.
Then once we have failed, like we have so many times befor, they, the tabloid rags, will slate the rooney`s and gerrard`s of this world, for not winning a competition, they had no hope in hell of winning in the first place.
Go on england, prove me wrong!.
