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Originally Posted by Derek S
At the end of the day whilst individually the England players have the skills needed to progress and challenge for silverware as a team they are distinctly average and I can't see how that will change with the current premiership setup and ridiculous wages putting them out of touch with normal people.
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The thing is in their respective teams they are supported by better players, who don't get the credit in the rush to hype and highlight the achivements on the British players.
Rooney, as good as he is, has excellent support at United from players like Nani, and Park. The system is set up to take advantage of Rooney and he is well supplied with excellent balls and runs from the less praised players in United's midfield.
Gerrard was much better with Alonso as well.
The team is quite weak in total, still a top 8 team but not as good as the better teams of the world who may have less 'stars' but better depth and quality throughout the team.
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The BBC have to stop treating Blatter and FIFA which such distain, it's stupid. Referring to his assistants are 'cronies' and rolling their eyes whenever they read a statement from them (like the worry about creating vastly different tiers of footballing).
I disagree with FIFA's position but still..