England biggest footballing nation

He's a complete muppet. His comments have really irritated me in so many ways.

 

Lack of any kind of knowledge shouldn't be a bar on making comments. If we have learned anything from football messageboards it is that.

Richards is striking a blow for the stupid man and I applaud him

 

Well Scotland really is just Northern Cumbria, Nortehrn Irleand is a suburb of Bicester and I don't think Wales actually exists. Also England is a lot bigger than Russia and has won all the World Cups, so i think he has a point.

 

Is having an English coach really a big deal in England, or is winning the WC? I ask this, because USAbasketball will never ever in my lifetime have a foreign coach even if it increased our chances for Gold or a World Championship. I know soccer is different, but you kats are the birth place of the beautiful game.

 

This is the same genius who got Sheffield Wednesday over £50 m in debt, then took them down two divisions. It was also claimed by several Sheffield businessmen that he was clearly guilty of 'creative accountancy' whilst in charge. He is also the only Chairman to have fired Paul Jewell in his career, so clearly a visionary.

That being said, his accomplice, Barwick, is the man who
a) almost bankrupted every single club outside the Premiership with his ITV digital deal, told the clubs they had hundreds of millions of pounds to spend, then realized that they didnt...after the clubs had spent the money.
b) paid well over the odds to get Des Lynam for the ITV version of Match of the Day, then put it on at 7 PM on a saturday....when most fans are still getting home from the game, another monumental genius of the world of football administration


I am not too informed about the third member of the panel, one Noel White, but i am sure that he is equally (in) competent.

We have the worst FA in the world. Did you know that there is still a place for a representative of the RAF on the FA Council, but still no representative of the PFA? Madness

 

Bad start Dave.........

Not so bad..........

Cvnt.........

Oh dear....................

California syrup of figs???

So, it's Bruce Arena then???

 

retarded. erikson's done a good job antway, i dont get it.

 

Basketball in the US is very different from soccer in England. England may be credited with inventing the game, and basketball did develop in Kansas, but that's pretty much where the similarities end. International basketball is a tiny, albeit growing, part of basketball in the US, which is undoubedly the epicenter of world basketball. If we cared about international basketball, we'd win everything anytime. But we don't, we've lost plenty, and they stopped calling the US teams the Dream Team a long time ago. Leagues in Europe are growing and their national teams get better while many of our players see internationals as less important than vacation time, but the fact is international basketball means little in the US. You're right we probably won't hire a foreign coach, but it's a different world in soccer.
England is a great soccer nation and the premier league is possibly the most exciting in the world, but just look at the amount of foreign managers in the Premier League or the number of World Cups that England has won compared to other nations and you can see the difference, even without the major differences between international soccer and basketball.

 

I'm pretty sure that the modern game was born when the football association was formed, that's when the rules were officially standardised.