Comments on: What Football Manager 08 taught me about Steve McClaren and England

By: Ebenezer Adjen

Ebenezer Adjen — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:04:38 +0000

DearSir,i am ayoung man of 17 years of age a footballer
in ashton football club in Ghana where ,i am a great midfielder who plays a position of 6 and ihave completed my senior high school and there is financial facing i and my relatives here so i need a team of under 17 and also a manager who will help me. Please,i just need you to help .

By: charlie miller

charlie miller — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:23:27 +0000

for me there is loads of talent coming threw england look at the england u21s team 2 best in eroup under 16 won the brtish cup for 7 years runing. we have the talent there its just people think omg look how meany english players are in the top four but there isnt only 4 clubs which have great players. u need to see and look around to find the talent because there are players licke theo wallcot and bantly all over englands leauge clubs u just need to stop watching tv and look for ur self!!!

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:14:21 +0000

difference is that there is absoloutly no flair or an creative imput to the coaching and playing staff in England.

joe cole maybe but he has no pace to get away from his opponent like ronaldo messi etc.

this forces him to lose his postion and forces ashley cole to adapt to marking 2 players which then brings the ‘great’ steven gerrard into the game as he will always get in the way.

england are overated

rooney’s best when hes not playing
seriously, has no stength or pace, proved it when he played upfront on his own in germany.

owens lost it , no secure LM or front two.

hopefully cappelo will change it

By: harasuke

harasuke — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:20:13 +0000

manutd fan n fm playa…. worst combination in the world…

n lamps is not a workhorse, just an overated player benefitting from better teamates( essein, cole.etc..)

By: Hursh

Hursh — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:12:15 +0000

we need more fresh blood in the England setup, the likes of Agbonlahor, Ashley Young and Aaron Lennon to inject pace and freshness, as well as Nedum Onuoha, Ben Foster, Joe Hart, etc. Its also worth taking a look at Nathan Porritt (thanks to the countless hours I’ve spent playing FM08 :$), an explosive 17 year old left winger in the mould of Stewart Downing (he even plays for Boro too!)….

By: Hursh

Hursh — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:07:39 +0000

ive just also started to manage England in FM 08 and ive found out that tactics do not matter so much, we have the players good enough to win a championship. I played standard 4-4-2, with full backs Cole and Richards pushing up at every opportunity and a diamond midfield with hargreaves/carrick/barry as the mainstay at the base, and either lamps/gerrard at the apex (NOT BOTH – note how this solves the problem of having to play them in the same midfield). Result: I won every single match I played with England, culminating in a 3-1 victory over Spain in the Euro 2008 Final (beating the likes of France, Portugal and Italy en route)!

By: dA_mIx

dA_mIx — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:23:50 +0000

I do not believe that England does not have the quality to go for glory, at least not in FM08. I strongly believes it has all to do with finding ‘The Tactic’ for the team. For example, I recently started to manage England in FM08 and they are flying high when incorporated into the tactic that I have desgined. Up to now, 8 games in, I have managed to won all matches and score at least 3 goals per match (including 4-0 over Germany in my first game). As with many successfull inventions, I have gone thru a lot of trial & errors before arriving to this ‘Tactic’. With all the other tactics that I’d tried with England, they are just performing on an average level before discovering the right Tactics. Hence, I strongly believe it’s a matter of finding the “Right Tactic”, then follow by putting the right players in the right place…. at least when speaking in FM08 terms.

By: Svenalike.co.uk

Svenalike.co.uk — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:28:55 +0000

I am beginning to think that TheFA should not be receiving quite so much of the critisism for so disasterously “selecting” McClaren as Sven’s successor?
It was rumoured that NO world class coach/manager was interested in the England job around the time Sven was driven to quit by xenophobic elements within the British media and it appeared that McClaren was engaged “by default” as the least worst option then available and/or willing to put his head in the same noose?
This rumour is now further reinforced by TheFA being snubbed by a succession of the world’s top rank candidates even though they have apparently raised the ante to Â£6,000,000 a year remuneration.
It appears that (even in the greed driven business world of football?) many leading football coaches may consider that there’s more to life than money?
Many England fan organisations tried to raise support to boycott those newspapers they considered responsible for their “creative” hype in systematically attacking Sven’s batchelor (private) life style, and thereby making a major contribution to wrecking England’s football prospects. Maybe those patriotic fans were on the right track?
When (if?) another international coach is obtained (who is hopefully approaching Sven’s calibre), I hope that he has the sense to live like a Monk and guarantee to win EVERY match and the World Cup in 2010, because Sven’s un-equaled statistics and the way he was “rewarded”, prove that NOTHING less will satisfy some within the media….?

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:50:49 +0000

England do not have world class players, in fact the majority of their players are over-rated. You know this is a fact as none of their players play overseas, only in england. The only people who think highly of english players are the english themselves. I would love to see them play mexico who are somehow ranked below them.

By: Svenalike.co.uk

Svenalike.co.uk — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:24:39 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion Ahmed. See you in Vienna, and if I don’t recognise you, I guarantee you will recognise me my friend.
http://www.myspace.com/svenalike