ThUg $TyLe said:
England don't do shit it tournament, like everyone likes to point out lets see the last 2 tournament they were knocked out by the best team in the world Brazil, and knocked out by the hosts in a penalty shoot out vs Portugual. Its not under achieving, the shoot out is being unlucky, the defeat to Brazil is being beaten by the best team in the world.
given the right manager at both points in time, we could have ended up winning both tournaments. i dont know sven tactics, hes been here for 4-5 years, and he still doesnt know what to do with our sqaud.
remember when brazil were down 2 10 men, any manager, apart from sven as we continually find ou, should have gone to an attcacking formation, but instead he made the players sit back.
brazil wasnt "world class" at all, world cup2002 was 1 of the worst tournaments i had ever watched. 1 freaky free kick fucked us up. and as gareth southgate said about svens half time team talk : "we needed winston churchill, but we got iain duncan-smith instead".
and the portugal game, that was a disaster. simply because sven didnt have no plan b, just like the brazill 2002 game. all sven relied on in 2004 was rooney. and when he got took of injured, we was rubbish, had no clue how 2 attack let alone defend.
see the link???? if we had a better manager, a english mananger, we would be world champions and european champions without doubt. and it is underachieving. theres only 5 teams above us in the world rankings, but we could easily beat any of them teams above us, including brazil, france and czech republic.