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LOOK at where the Prem's money comes from. It's US and asian TV rights. Game day attendance is a tiny part of the overall take and the English know it but won't say it. As these prices decline you will see more English clubs go under or to foreign ownership. The English, arrogant and blind as always will claim no share of responsibility for this at all.
Im 40 and im yet to see the LA lakers or the Boston red socks ever turn up for a game near me in Liverpool or Manchester. Not sure why my sports teams are expected to turn up in LA or Boston. If fans want to see something then they have to travel. The idea of man united vs Chelsea at the Beijing birds nest for a 3 point league game is souless. I hope im long dead before i see Liverpool v Everton at the pepsi cola stadium in florida.
Let's all be honest, the Premier league and clubs don't give a flying .....about UK fans....its all about the dollar. ....and to hell with the fans who turn up week in week out.
Luke and Pete specifically will literally defend anything that anyone liberal ever says. "I'm not saying I support it because I don't" but Sadiq Khan said it so i'm going to argue against very arguments i've made on this very platform when the baddies were doing superlague. Embarassing honestly.
Eddie Howe would play footballers in their club positions plus he would have a more front foot system as opposed to Southgate who wanted all passing sideways or backwards. Pickford had more touches than Kane.
Boys - isn’t the question just who was most likely to vote remain and support Labour? Or maybe who will most upset people who voted reform? You and the FAs criteria has done so well for us so far.
That’s the problem though. We keep placing our faith in individual players. We should instead look at the broad group of the best players we have, pick a style of play that fits the TEAM AS A WHOLE and then pick players that fit that style. Instead we shoehorn individual stars into a system that doesn’t work.
He did the best he could. The England manager’s job is even more than being a football coach. Too much is expected of the England manager to fix England’s problems. End of the day England weren’t good enough on the ball - retaining it and without the ball. It would have been a travesty if they have won that final. Spain completely outplayed England. We’re a moments team and the only way England can win a major trophy is to play defensive football and rely on moments of brilliance. If the next England manager is an attacking one and makes England play too open they will get spanked and go out earlier. Fans will then scream why the team can’t defend?!
Love your podcast, this is probably the most balanced take on the final I’ve seen. It’s refreshing hearing someone finally calling out the lack of technical players in the English game , there’s a whole grass roots problem people are ignoring
I do find it interesting how he polarises people - some say his a conference league manager and then others saying his a great manager who we will regret losing. Personally think its somewhere in the middle - great spokesman for the team and man management but tactically was very poor. This tournament in particular he looked out of ideas and just went with what he knows best which is defence. Think as time goes on he will be looked on fondly - his work on pens potentially being a game changer for us.
