stu_longshaw's JumboTweets
- Enough of this bulls**t. How about you ask the fans views on a new manager. We are the ones that support them through the little highs and the ongoing lows (50 years and counting), we are the ones that pay hundreds and thousands supporting the team, travelling across the world to see abject performance after abject performance. We pay year after year on new kits, only to see the players underperform in it game after game. We are the ones who don't see any passion, commitment, proud, angry, happy players. Where are the days when you would have players screaming at each other to demand more from them, not because they hated each other but because they knew that the other player had the ability and commitment to the cause. Where are the days where you would see players like Gazza cry on the pitch because he had given everything he had on the pitch, players like Ince in blood soaked shirts with a bloody bandage round his head giving his all to help England, Pearce scoring in a penalty shootout and letting out a great roar (that still gives me a rush of blood to the head now even writing about it). All footballers are interested in nowadays is being mollycoddled, they are too afraid to shout at one another, they are too afraid to grab each other by the scruff of the neck to help lift the team, too afraid to show commitment and passion, too afraid to make a decision, too afraid to take responsibility, too afraid to lift one another in the dark moments. Long gone has the spirit of '96 when we might not have had the greatest team ever but they certainly gave their all in every game. Granted it was on home soil but that pressure would have made it 10x bigger than what our players would have felt in France 2016.
The players need to sit down with fans, who cares if they get their feelings hurt. Try being one of us who see and feel it year after year, tournament after tournament. They need to evoke the spirit and passion that the players had in the early 90's. Players like Gascoigne, Linekar, Adams, Pearce, Shearer, Sheringham, Beckham need to have a long hard talk with them too.
You can have all the managers in the world but until something changes with the players and they get the feelings that us true fans feel then England will never progress at all. I'm not saying Hodgson should have stayed because he shouldn't have (in fact I don't believe he should have got the job in the first place). What we need is a manager (someone like Pardew, Dyche or Howe), give them a 10 year plan and let them know that failure isn't an option for these players. We have some talented players in Dele Alli, Eric Dier, Marcus Rashford, Jack Butland, John Stones, Ross Barkley ( even though you don't always see it) the team should be built around them and compliemented by the experience of play Rooney in a striker position. For crying out loud he is Englands all time leading score, soon to be Uniteds top scorer and yet we play him in midfield. Who cares if he wants to play in a number 10 position or in centre midfield, he is a proven goalscorer so he plays there, regardless of if he wants to or not.
The other option is to scrap the required number of homegrown players clubs in the Premier League have in their squad for the year and make them have 7 English players in their matchday squad of 14 ( Of which 5 have to start). We need a complete overhaul of the league. We need to not be afraid if our best imports leave the league, we have to sacrifice that for the greater good. If it means England have success in the long term then that can only be a great thing. With the money that is coming to clubs in the next few years then they aren't going to lose money and therefore England can only gain from such a plan.
Anyway I think I have ranted enough
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