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@clintsmoker
really? 99% of international teams wouldn't finish in the top half of the prem league surely the opposite is true. International football is a smoke screen. A player looks/sounds good when he plays well for england against Bulgaria but he actually just played a game of football at a lower level than he does week in week out. Everyone gets excited during qualification campaigns and successive england managers have stats like pl 10 w 8 d 2 l 0 and the only reason is the quals were full of inferior opposition like san marino. Then we get to the world cup and the rest is history. Not that Algeria , the US and whoever else we played in that last world cup are any better.
The media have slowly taken the world cup from being a football tournament into a massive spectacle to be enjoyed by people who aren't interested in football. So we are now so desperate to think how to change the domestic game just because my mum wants to know why we can't beat Algeria.