The England football team
frankie_ecap asked me to post my thoughts on how to improve the England football (soccer) team. Now, as a very new rugby coach with the sum total of one season coaching juniors I of course am extremely well qualified to do so! Actually, as far as I can see the England football team is so bad that I probably could improve it but I'm not going there
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You are right about the quality of the football at international level compared with club football, I really can't argue with that. So why bother is a valid and obvious question.
On a personal level I share the affliction that many fans of football share in this and many countries, I support a lower division team, Stoke City. Yes I can understand your deep sympathy at my plight but there it is. It isn't a choice, it just is. But as a result I endure mediocre players fighting for those briefest moments of glory. I wait patiently for those occasional magical moments which keep me going back again and again. I dream a dream for my team of Premiership domination and European campaigns, but know in my heart that it's just a dream.
So there is one bright light on my footballing horizon, a team I can support with just as much passion, a team full of the best players of their day, a team which promises the standard of football I can only dream about for my own beleaguered Stoke, that team is England. They let me down big time on Wednesday.
If I supported Manchester United or Chelski or Liverpool then I could shrug and go back to watch the magic of top level football played with grace and inspiration by the masters in their field, but I don't and I can't. Today Stoke are away to Burnley.
So why internationals? Well for me it's so us passionate supporters of lower division teams can have a hope of supporting a team which does have a chance of glory on an international level. These top players are not playing for England per se, they are playing for all the Stoke fans, the Burnley fans, the Stockport fans, the Doncaster Rover fans...
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I really do understand your point about not choosing who you support. I'm a Manchester United supporter, but a third generation one (sort of, my dad actually supports City which says a great deal about him but my grand dad supported United)
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