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Ignorance is a common theme with Premier League fans and British pundits.
Gary Lineker thought Pelé was a striker
Neymar is dismissed as a show pony & inconsistent
Foreign footballers are generally questioned whether they could perform in England or not. https://twitter.com/rorysmith/status/1358151154685902848
Gary Lineker thought Pelé was a striker
Neymar is dismissed as a show pony & inconsistent
Foreign footballers are generally questioned whether they could perform in England or not. https://twitter.com/rorysmith/status/1358151154685902848
+ regardless of what they’ve achieved in their respective countries or national sides.
English footballers have been over rated by English press and pundits for decades leading them to question how such a ‘great’ team failed time and time again.
English footballers have been over rated by English press and pundits for decades leading them to question how such a ‘great’ team failed time and time again.
You see it time and time again in the Champions League. When the inevitable happens and a European side outplays and knocks out an English side the narrative is all about their mistakes, how close they where refereeing decisions, never about the quality of the other team.
As with the national team. They consider it a foregone conclusion before a balls been kicked then stand there scratching their heads when it all goes wrong.
Take England’s Golden Boys in midfield, Gerrard & Lampard. The question on everyone’s mind for years - How didn’t it work for England?
You’re asking the wrong questions.
The truth is, they weren’t as good as their Italian, Argentinian, German Spanish or French counterparts.
You’re asking the wrong questions.
The truth is, they weren’t as good as their Italian, Argentinian, German Spanish or French counterparts.
English football fans value hard work, ‘getting stuck in’, passion, captain material above all else. Technique & genuine ability comes second.
This goes right down to grass roots level.
Doing skills & expressing ability with a football are discouraged.
It’s a sickness.
This goes right down to grass roots level.
Doing skills & expressing ability with a football are discouraged.
It’s a sickness.
The funny part is the Premier League was never ever ‘that’ strong. It only became so this century.
Players like Bergkamp came at the end of the last century and tore it apart making it look average. As did Cantona and others.
Players like Bergkamp came at the end of the last century and tore it apart making it look average. As did Cantona and others.
The Brazilian & Italian leagues where much stronger in the 90’s and nearly every decade before that. In terms of quality and depth. There was a long time period where Holland was stronger domestically too, as was Hungary.
It’s the influx of foreign footballers and therefore foreign teachings, ideas & schools of thought that makes the premier league the league it is.
It’s generally not the English players or managers.
It’s generally not the English players or managers.
To think that the basis of all great football on the continent, from Hungary, Switzerland, Austria to Holland/Ajax, across to Brazil, into Spain & Barça up to present day, all came from Englishmen that laid the foundations.
They’ll be turning in their grave.
They’ll be turning in their grave.
