Date: 22/11/07 12:03 pm (UTC)
because, week in week out, the players who grace the pitch for england perform more than adequately alongside some of the best of the rest of the world in the premiership. Take steven gerrard, Liverpool feature many foreign internationals, but Stevie G is widely regarded as their best player. Rooney, hargreaves, carrick and brown I can tell you as a Man U fan are all good to world class. Indeed on paper, we have a great side. Compare that to germany, who beyond the likes of Klose (who I admit is a great player), Ballack and Schweinsteiger peobably dont have the depth and class england do. And yet achieve so much more.

Why ? Because the coach IS vital. Look at Bolton over recent years. Led by the canny sam allardyce they managed to qualify for the Uefa cup despite a fraction of the resources of the other premiership teams. He leaves and immediately they collapse and now almost certainly will be relegated. It's the coach who shapes the team into something that works as a unit. This McClaren has singularly failed to do.

There ARE some weakenesses in england, but we should have qualified. In fact we should have done so easily. Instead we've become a laughing stock.
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