You need 3 West Ham players in the first team including the captain and two others who will score 4 goals in the world cup final. Simple. And impossible to prove it wouldn’t work.

Now we just need Robert Green, Anton Ferdinand and Dean Ashton and we’ve got a chance.

Sam Adriance – I think you missed a little bit of my point, or I wasn’t clear enough. I don’t mind all the foreigners in the EPL, because I think they enhance the quality of the football played immensely. I just think it’s a major problem for the development of English players, since they’re not allowed to play as regularly as they would had the number of foreign players been reduced. The English national team is in a state now, where it relies on 1 striker (Rooney) to be fit, and very few winger (the overrated Joe Cole, and the to-fast-for-their-own-good SWP and Lennon). Don’t tell me that Downing has the class to take England to the top of any tournament.

In midfield the team lacks creativity big time. There’re plenty of hard-working players with a good right foot (Gerrard, Lampard, Carrick), but none of them produce anything, when they play for their national team. They might be dangerous against Liechtenstein and teams of that caliber, but once they meet Italy, France, Brazil, Argentina, suddenly these powerful midfielders are too slow-footed to keep up, and there’s no room for that screemer from 30 yeards out that is the trademark of these midfielders.

There’s no question that England’s defense is good enough, and that any team playing them will have a hard time scoring, and that’s why so many of their games have so few goals in them. England are strong defensively, but in terms of creativity, they’re so far behind their main opponents, because the type of creative midfielder is not produced, and if there was a creative midfielder, they rarely get to play at their clubs, because they have better foreign players doing their job.

Paul Scholes was the last creative midfielder with a high international level, and I don’t see any other coming through the ranks any time soon.

no talent OWEN, IS A TALENT IS JSUT ALWAYS INJURED
gerrard terry, lampard, cole rooney

all talented terry lampard and gerrard just have issues playing in the same team for england cause thye all consider them selves more important then the other and the fact that lampard and gerrard play the same position and lampard has to compramise his role to accomadate gerrard, means they dont play for each other. the problem is that the rarerity of english players means they get paid to much and think there to important and it causes friction amoungst them when it come to binding together and playing for their country, they just dont gel.

there is plenty of english talent young and old, the problem is they get paid to much, are over confident, think there to big and important.
selectors may have to re consider who they select for national duties so they can get a better performance, the best team isnt always the team that has the best players on paper???

look at netherlands, portugal croatia, serbia, no where near as fantastic in terms of doMestic competition, they stil have quality players but not as much depth in that area, but their national teams are awesome…..

England needs better coaching, needs a team that plays better together certainly. But has anyone also considered that maybe to win a cup competition (which all international competitions are) it requires you to be extremely lucky? I mean, I know we all think that the reason the Three Lions always lose on penalties is because they’re “mentally weak” or something, but is there anything that depends more on luck than a penalty shootout? I’m just sayin’….