Originally posted by @Barry-Sanchez
It will be someone who doesn’t speaks the facts even though they are glaring. 1) Foreign players carry English players. 2) English players are technically deficient. 3) We breed racehorses not cultured footballers. 4) Our domestic league does us no favours at all as teams will buy ready made players. 5) Without intervention this is it, this is as good as it gets. 6) This is an inherent English issue, no other nation freezes on stage as we do. No other nation on the planet has this issue of desire, not one, this is solely an English football issue, players from elsewhere would walk through walls to play for their nation, ours would walk through an open door. It would be unfair not to finish with Iceland, the best team and the best team by a long way.
Good post Bazza, with some good points, many of which the incoming manager will be able to do nothing about.
But your point about no other nation, not having the desire, I’d take issue with.
I’ve seen Spain, with their myriad gifts twice play as if they have no passion. Once yesterday and once was in Brazil.
I don’t think that our players lack passion per se, but I do feel that inhibition kicks in and fear guides them.
What we have is a mental issue which is magnified the closer we get to a major final and what we see is an apparent lack of passion or a team that doesn’t care.
In reality we are too scared to care - in my view.
Next manager?
I’d give Southgate a go. He might do ok and anyone else would risk me starting to believe again that next time could be our time.