I mean come on their team has won 1 WC 40 years ago, that too in home..still in every WC the English team go in as favourites then crash out in Quarter finals, after playing some sleepy football & end up blaming the ref,eveyone else except them. I love their rock music & literature but football pleeaasee.You want to know about their sucess? Just 1 win in 1966 at home...after that just 1 semifinal in Italia 90. Hell even Sweden, USSR, Yogoslavia have reached the same number of semi finals !The record in EURO is worse 1 semifianl that too in their home in 1996 ! Consider the fact that in every EURO the hosts have reached the SF so thats not special.
Another disgusting thing is calling EPL best in the world...you want the facts ? Only 3 English clubs have reached the final of champions league in last 20 years ! Man Utd ( 99 ), Liverpool ( 05), Arsenal (06 ). How can they call their football best with such perennially mediocre performance...Comparing Rooney to Pele !Dont you hate it ??
2006-07-12 21:55:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football ➔ FIFA World Cup (TM)
ps: hey fishball i too am from se asia...they tried to brainwash me withEPL . but couldnt coz i know the real picture.
2006-07-13 03:30:20 · update #1
Yes...
the guys go into little boy mode quickly.
2006-07-12 21:57:00 · answer #1 · answered by double v 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
YES they are optimistic... and so are we in S E Asia.
We have grown up with the English brand of football - followed it religiously through weekly live coverages from the days of Div.1 to the current Barclays EPL; read all about it daily in local newspapers - English players are household names in Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore and quite a number of them and EPL top teams have played friendlies here in steamy tropical conditions. Naturally when ENGLAND competes internationally we want them to win - this inexplicable wish in us all is there in our collective hearts & minds however silly we are - we're asians with zero connection to England.
Barclays EPL - not Serie A, nor Primera Liga or other leagues - enthralls, entertains, excites us all that no other football leagues in the world can. (We've have tried watching other leagues - very low ratings TV stations dropped them). It may not be the 'best' league in the world but you can't say it's not the toughest because of its demands - ask Wenger or Sir Alex.
Even though ENGLAND failed in Germany, I for one (and many over here i'm sure) will only want ENGLAND to win, to redeem theselves in EURO2008 Switzerland-Austria.
Football means little to us without ENGLAND and the EPL - that's how much we love English football.
2006-07-12 23:39:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-07-12 21:59:18 · answer #3 · answered by Ajay M 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't you think it's better to be optimistic rather than pesimistic?Why say "oh my team is never going to make it. let's go home and bake cakes!!!"? I prefer thinking that my team is going to win and if they don't at least I had a good time watching them play.
2006-07-12 21:59:33 · answer #4 · answered by I think therefore I am 2210 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
English fans are sore losers!!!
2006-07-12 21:58:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, coz there it is most exciting game
2006-07-12 21:58:23 · answer #6 · answered by ahmars2000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes we are......spurs will win uefa cup & the premiership i'm sure!
2006-07-12 22:49:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're brilliant!! well said!! :)
2006-07-12 22:05:41 · answer #8 · answered by Ana Sofia PORTUGAL 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I HATE ROONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-07-12 21:58:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋