Karohemd's World

A) The Manager is employed by the Football Association to meet certain objectives. Qualify for the Euros, World Cup, make it to the Quarter Finals, whatever it might be; if the Manager does not meet those objectives, then he's not fulfilled his contract.

B) The players are employed by their clubs to play football. International players are selected to represent the country, they aren't being paid by the FA to do it and there's no contract between them that either side is obligated to play them or play for them.

C) The Manager isn't responsible solely for this recently past Croatia match, there were at least two other fixtures where England did not perform that, had we won, would've seen us qualfiy. Case in point: Croatia, twice, and FYRMacedonia. That's three fixtures he didn't pick the right team, strategy, motivate the players enough to go out and win. That's 9 missed points. And enough to have qualified.

D) Players don't tend to take the brunt of it because the Manager gets sacked, a new one comes in and only realistically has the best of a country to choose from, which regardless if they're underperforming are better than most in the rest of the country, otherwise they'd be in the team. Therefore- a new manager comes in, picks the same players the old manager had to choose from and has to be better at strategy, motivation and getting the best out of them. If a Manager can't do that, they shouldn't be in the job.

The players should take their side of the blame. Many of them are being paid £25,000 p/w to play football. If any other person was paid £25,000 p/w to do their job and they screwed up, they'd be sacked as well... so we need to do something about the players as well.