Why do England fail in international football tournaments?

Question

What would it take for England to win the world cup and european championship?
Intelligent answers only. no lazy minded 'soundbites'

Answer 1

They Crap

Answer 2

Basically we suck in tournaments because aclimatisation or however you spell it, when we struggle through to the 1/4's we scrape by a draw then end up losing on penalties.

England can win trophies and cups no doubt... we just need a few changes - Sam Allardyce & Stuart pearce as manager and coach (face it if things went wrong pearce would run on pitch and shout and score the goals instead haha) They're both passionate people.

Gerrard should of been captain ahead of Terry but hey sh!t happens. (You'd of thought istanbul would of proved that)

Youngsters/Versatility - There's not enough youngsters getting a shot at the big time. When Ledley King first started out he played well and he had the versatility to play cdm as well as c. def.
Lennon, Wright-Phillips and others from the U-21 sqaud need a chance. Big name players like scholes, ferdinand beckham and owen won't be around forever then what?

If the youth doesn't develop properly when those lot leave England will be a worse team than Scotland.

Answer 3

For starter we get the wrong manager's. We need a patriot, say Stuart Pearce I'm not saying Stuart yet because he needs more expeirence. Someone who wears a heart on his sleeve and is honest, and has balls to drop the so called "big names".

Key example lampard, people say Gerrard and lampard can work together but they clearly can't. Gerrard should always be picked ahead of lampard. He is more passionate and can always stimulate the attack and defends well, and has better form for England. Look at lampard in the world cup, couldnt hit a barn door. Another example is Stuart Downing, what has he done, nothing just got lucky with the manager.

A player who should get played more regularly is Peter Crouch. Good target man, brings players into play. Look at his record its top drawer 12/19.

Gerrard should be captain he can influence the team like for liverpool. Ok, John Terry good defender but he can't influence that much, by doing a little pass to Rio or the long ball.

Formation 4-4-2 sounds good but we could when we are playing the lesser teams play 3 at the back. Sacrificing a defender to play more attacking football.

Personally I would like the games played like the premiership. Look at how many English Clubs were in the Champions league semi-finals. We should have players like Joey Barton to rough them up, Italy's Gattusso.

Also we need to reschedule the premiership most of the players are worn out before the tournment. Maybe a break somewhere along the line.

Lastly if we want quality youngsters, we need to play them in the premiership and europe. I would strongly suggest a resriction on the amount of foreign players to about 3/4 per squad. Look at Arsenal it's ridculous what they have done.

Answer 4

GK Julio Cesar Defenders Paulo Ferreira Bruno Alves Lucio Sergio Ramos Mid Fielders Wesley Sneijder Kaka Bastian Schweinsteiger Forwards David Villa Lionel Messi Luis Fabiano

Answer 5

Over-inflated egos,technically inferior players,over-hyped and an useless manager.

I think they will be better off fielding their U-21 squad as I see them playing with more pride than the seniors. For the past few years, the only player that I saw deserving the shirt is Beckham, and he was dropped by McClaren so that he could rebuild the team(by fielding Gerrard and Lampard in centre mid together,that sounds oddly familiar). I think they need a new GK, Robinson has been doggy and inconsistent. In defence, Carragher and Terry will make a better pairing,if the two of them play with as much vigor and pride as they do for their clubs.Baines shd be given a chance,as Cole is useless in defence.Neville shd stay for the time being. Hargreaves,Cole,Gerrard and Beckham in Midfield.Hargreaves as anchor,Cole on the left and Gerrard slotting behind the strikers,with Beckham on the right providing the crosses.Rooney as the second striker alongside Bent. Players shd be called up based on credit and not due the clubs they played for or how good they were,nor how reputable they are. And lastly,get a manager who knows what he is doing,forget about English as a national pride thingy,there ain't any english manager good enough since Robson.Scolari would have been ideal.What england need in their team is some discipline and cohesiveness.

Answer 6

For all the responders and media types who lay the national team's lack of succes at the feet of the club teams, let me ask a question. Since when are the club teams supposed to be a feeder for the national team?

The goal of a club team is to win matches, leagues, cups and European titles, and in order to do that they need the best players they can afford, not just local talent. Remember, the club teams are businesses and the goal of any busines is to make money and perpetuate themselves by being successful on the pitch and in their accounts.

Here's another question for you guys: With the influx of foreign ownership, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man U, Man City, etc., what motivation do they have to make the national team successful? The foreign owners view the national team as a drain of their talent with potentially harmful results (see Owen the past few years).

The predominant response so far is to play more attacking football, which may be true. It's been my experience that some players play better for their national side than their club team (Hargreaves) and some play better for the club side (see Ronaldinho) Few can play well for both (like Ronaldo of Portugal or Ashley Cole). I think the majority of England players play much better for their club team than they do the Three Lions (Lampard by a mile along with Terry, Ferdinand and Beckham). And then some don't play well for either side, but they are the best they got (Robinson). What the English manager has to do is find those players who play better for the national side and get them on the starting XI, regardless of their status or stature on their club teams. Then England might have a chance in international competitions. Oh yeah, and get them to practice PK's until their feet bleed.

Answer 7

It would not take a great manager as some have suggested but a big manager, one that can handle the pressure and the ego's of the big players and drop the right players for the good of the team and not play players just because of thier name.

I believe it would also help if the top teams in the league would spend money on english talent, such as man utd do year in year out and those who think they don't think first before you start arguing. Rooney, Hargreeves, Foster, Ferdinand to name a few.

Arsenal are the worst of all the top 4. Sorry but those who say that english players are not good enough you are truly misguided. Liverpool won the european cup because of players like gerrard and carragher, chelsea won the league back to back with john terry and lampard both playing vital roles. Arsenal have no excuse and it does not help the countries chances at all.

More english players playing champions league football would help week in week out, to get used to playing against top players and different styles of football.

Answer 8

People can moan about bad formations or managers not using players properly, but i think the england starting 11 is our best 11. I think its simply the players, none of them perform as well as they do in club football. This could be for a number of reasons, they might be tired from our very long seasons over here with a week off before the world cup, a lot of them could be used to being the talisman for their club and not doing that for england.
There are many others but personally i think the media has a lot to do with it, when we are winning they say we are the best in the world. When we are losing we are the worst. And like the 2002 world cup there always has to be a scapegoat (Beckham). With all this pressure on players i think they dare not try anything in case they mess up. The reason i think this is because that's what i see on the pitch, they seem timid and scared, don't want to push forward in case they get caught on the counter and no one really wanting to run with it in case they lose possession

Answer 9

An intelligent coaching staff that would play an attacking aggressive style of match. The teams that win (or do well) at the World Cup level are the attacking teams. Only when France abandoned their defensive style last World Cup did they have success. Play to win and not to draw or not to lose. The English play the 4-5-1 formation which makes it tough for their striker to get the opportunities for goals. Brazil, Portugal and Spain all play the 4-4-2 with two srikers. And yes I know Italy won the last World Cup but if England had that kind of committment to defence and Buffon tending goal for them you wouldn't have asked this question because they would have won.

Answer 10

It would take a great manager. Not a Sven or Steve.
England have great players, but somehow when Sven and Steve threw them together they ended up playing worse than Charlton ( no offence to Charlton ! ). They look like players who have been out of the game for months and in need of match practice.

I still think Allardyce would've been the right man for the job, but maybe a stint at Newcastle might be just what he needs to show that he is a miracle worker and can bring the best out of most players.

Answer 11

Players with better technical ability. I remember watching a TV programme recently which interviewed a top Portuguese youth coach about the success of his team and why England have so little success. He said that he always lets young players focus on technical ability whereas English football coaches seem obsessed by tactics and formations.