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Originally Posted by Locke
England is very overhyped, but I do agree that this is likely the best squad they've fielded in quite a while,
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Maybe, the FA has finally got it right after years of bypassing straight-talking honest, salt of the earth men that understood the game, but weren't yes men like Clough and Charlton for the likes of (disabled people have sinned)Hoddle, Wilkinson, the melt down Keegan, Steve McLaren.
It's nice that they've got a manager but IMO (and truth be told) they would have progressed a lot further in competitions past if the suits in the FA would succumb to their job descriptions and let a manager ... manage.
I refer you to Brian Clough, and what he achieved from the ground up and his aspirations to manage England
How is it any better in talent to those past?
A previous poster compared the team at the moment to the one in the past.
FACT IS ... they're great PL players but apart from Lineker, Liam Brady, Beckham, not one single English player has shown the ability to adapt and succed to a foreign way of playing the sport.