Football

We have stopped the rot since we disbanded the Lilleshall school of excellence - a move to copy France and Germany (cause it worked so well for them....)

The emphasis being on local teams running academies, sadly they didn't realise the cost of english footballers is driven by greed so its cheaper to get them from abroad. if it wasn't for West Ham we would have been fucked over at international level a long time ago.

We just don't have the players, there is no natural talent. Spain have too many players who can change a game by dictating the pace, we have rooney who works hard and Gerrard who can dive and punt it from 40 yds.. pretty sad

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this.

also:
crouch: his goals against shit teams is good.
his goals against good teams. not so good.

defoe adds small and short and goal poacher. and hasn't scored since when?

scrapping lilleshall, letting the FA premier league dictate to the English FA, still not reducing the size of the league from 20 to 18 (which i think was one of the original tenets of forming it).