England crushed like the bug it is!!

[d000hg]

Football is hardly a minority interest. It is by far the most widely followed sport in the UK.

[NickFitz]

I agree in part, but let's face it; football is important to a lot of people and it affects their mood from day to day and it can entertain them at the weekend. Dunno why, but it seems to be so.

Yes, but they're all plasterers. A few walls that aren't as smooth as they should be hardly signify the End of Days

[Unix]

What about the fact that non-English players dominate those teams? RVP, Ronaldo, Suarez et al have been massive names in the English teams - many of the top names we're watching in the world cup are the mainstays of English teams (or previously played for English teams).

Ronaldo? He plays for Real, if you don't know that you shouldn't be arguing about football.

[d000hg]

Ronaldo? He plays for Real, if you don't know that you shouldn't be arguing about football.

Learn to read, especially learn about the past tense, you dumbo.

[Mich the Tester]

Ronaldo? He plays for Real, if you don't know that you shouldn't be arguing about football.

Football isn't the point; maybe he knows something about a sport where England manage to win things. You're displaying the attitude that makes England fail at football; inability to listen to and learn from others.

[d000hg]

From the Olympics we surely learned that success is measurably related to financial investment. A sport gets more focus and more resources, and results improve. Football has massive money but it's not primarily invested in developing English players. Imagine if it was!

[Unix]

Learn to read, especially learn about the past tense, you dumbo.

Dominate
verb
have power and influence over.

past tense: dominated; past participle: dominated

HTH BIDIVM

[Mich the Tester]

From the Olympics we surely learned that success is measurably related to financial investment. A sport gets more focus and more resources, and results improve. Football has massive money but it's not primarily invested in developing English players. Imagine if it was!

Yes, but there is more to it than that. The money in English football simply means there's no excuse for 48 years of failing to win anything. The culture of English football needs to change, and that will start when the chiefs of the FA, the captain and coach of England AND the management of the clubs collectively admit to failure at the international level and start critically examining everything they do, and everything they are, to work out how to move forward.

[d000hg]

Dominate
verb
have power and influence over.

past tense: dominated; past participle: dominated

HTH BIDIVM

You'd look less of an utter moron if you just admitted you didn't read it properly in the first place. Maybe read up on punctuation.

[Unix]

You'd look less of an utter moron if you just admitted you didn't read it properly in the first place. Maybe read up on punctuation.

Switching tenses is just as bad, learn to write properly you cretin.