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Originally Posted by harry_hitch
German players and fans appear (rightly) to root for the national team though. The players clearly get paid enough to make a decent living.
Why should the German FA care if they cannot attract the likes Clint Dempsey, when clubs can probably pick players of a similar standard of quality for a fraction of the wages and who want to work hard and try to earn a call up for their country. They must be very happy with their tournament placings, and how promising their future currently looks.
England have always been average even before the PL started, but the PL is really limiting our future growth. The FA don't help help matters much either, the Germans will happily let their under 21's play in the under 21 tournaments and learn to play internationally naturally, where as we just chuck teenagers into a team of players (who do not know how to win important games) against seasoned international players in the hope they show some promise for the future.
The FA really need to try and gain some form of control over the PL, (or at least let the youngsters develop at under 21 level) even if it will be incredibly difficult.
Rant over.
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Wholeheartedly agree. I was countering the suggestion that lower wages means boring football which nobody wants. Germany shows that doesn't need to be the case. The two Champions League semi finals last year showed that it is German teams, not Spanish, who are playing the best football, and the final showed that it's also German teams who are winning trophies. Yet their top earners are on two thirds of the money earned by ours. At the same time their fans can watch top flight football (with a free travel card to get there) for about a tenner and even drink beer in sight of the pitch.
The Premier League has been good solely for the Premier League, everything else - and to stay on topic, that includes people who want to watch football on tv - has suffered.
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Originally Posted by Doug P
Could tech peeps tell me why that whole pitch thing is good?
It seems to me that you can see the whole pitch but nothing in any detail.
If that is so would rather stick with the pics we currently get.
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That was my first thought.