England Had A Good Football Team Once

Apparently there was a football match on Wednesday…..

You may have heard….

If not, England played their last game in the qualifying group for the Euro 2008 football tournament and lost 3 goals to 2 to Croatia. As a result we failed to qualify for the finals next year and were third in a table of seven that included such reknowned footballing nations as Israel, FYR Macedonia, Estonia and Andorra and of course Croatia and Russia. England should have been top of this table and beaten all of these teams easily, but no, they failed to do so and have brought shame on our country and embarrassment for all of those that like to follow the national team. If the group had contained teams like France, Germany and Italy it might be excusable but I don’t even know where Macedonia or Estonia are and isn’t Andorra a county pretending to be a country?

The FA is looking very seriously at this situation and has already sacked Mr. McLaren the team coach. Will they actually do anything else or are they just blustering their way through a very difficult period to cover up the fact that they are as much to blame as anyone else for letting the situation get to this in the first place.

If they do not look seriously at the following suggestions and take some positive action then they also should be sacked:-

Point 1 – All footballers deemed good enough to play for England should be told they may only play for the pride of being selected for and representing England. Payment will be made on results – if they win they get a bonus.

Point 2 – The coach / manager of the England team should be English. It’s difficult to bring to mind anyone that is up to the job but there must be someone somewhere who is!

Point 3 – Limit the number of foreign players in English league football clubs, how can Chelsea or Arsenal, for example call themselves English teams if their English players are a small minority of the total squad?

Point 4 – The Government should pressurise the FA to bring back the Home International tournament. All British teams could then get some practice in! Would we, however, have to adjust the tournament to include Poland…?

Then once the Home Internationals were back in place, why stop there? Bring back the Royal Tournament and all other events that this Government have deemed no longer have a place in the modern Britain.

You never know, they may, with a bit of luck, bring back competitive sports in schools, national service and capital punishment. Now who would be brave enough…..?