northen monkey? southern fairy?
I was at the bar on saturday watch arsenal playing against tottenham scums. Well, as most of u would have known, the result was 2-2. A very disappointing result. We could have won it if those 3 shots that hit the post could have gone in the net. Arsenal has been so unlucky in front of goal this season. Against liverpool was the same story, hitting the post 3 times as well. Anyway the essence of this isn't gonna be the review of how the scums can be proud of their performance despite not winning, and draw against under-strength gunners is a magnificent achievement. Scums fans, listen, you have not beaten arsenal, not since nov 1999 when arsenal lost 2-1 away.. Try harder next season, but your efforts will just be as futile, cos the game on saturday showed the gulf between your team and the gunners.. despite the result. Ok, back to what i wanna say, i'm digressing again.
I was at the bar, and there were English-Gooners among the crowd. When Jenas scored the injury time equaliser, the bar erupted. (Due to the fact there were more neutral fans who wanted to see goals and drama) So, there was this jackass at the end of the bar who decided to tease the english-gooner.
jackass: "F*** Off Arsenal!"
So one gooner wasn't too particular happy about the comments made by that jackass.
angry-gooner: "Oh Yeah? How long did u all need to score?"
jackass: "At least an englishman scored! I don't even support spurs,i'm from middlesbrough"
angry-gooner: "Northen Monkey!"
jackass: "Southern Fairy!" (and the jackass left the bar)
Hahaha.. people often say football unites the world, mm yeah... but now it seems to me it can divide a country too.. English fans (I mean real english-english fans), they seem to be blaming their international woes on clubs like arsenal, whose first eleven including the bench can be made up of non-englishmen.
I wonder if blame is a natural reaction of an englishmen..
Poor World Cup showing?... Blame the heat in Germany!
Poor World Cup showing?... Blame Becks!
English managers struggling with first team?... Blame the 'major club' s' managers
Rooney's broken metatarsal?... Blame on the boots!
England's exit in world cup against portugal? Blame C.Ronaldo!
Problems with english football?... Blame the foreigners!
blame the arsenal's lack of trust in english talent, blame lampard's penalty miss, blame sven's poor management, blame becks poor showing, blame ronaldo's invisible card flash, blame portugal dirty play, blame this, blame that.
Seems that the blame culture runs in the country's footballing setup.
But let's just face a simple fact.. England is just as good as Holland or Spain can be.. No doubt, england has the best football league in the world (my opinion). Just like Spain, they have a tough league, but the spaniards hasn't delivered in the international stage. I really wonder why England think's they'll win the world cup every time? They can't beat Sweden for nearly 40 years, and sweden doesn't have a strong league like the EPL.. Swedish players are making it big outside sweden. Who have England got who succeed outside the EPL? Hargreaves maybe, but he'll most likely come to the premiership next season in a red outfit. France, Brazil, they're all recent worldcup winners who has done well without a strong domestic league. (with exception for italy) But even italians has made it big out of the EPL..e.g. Zola. But who (English) has really made it out of England?
In my opinion, England's woes are simple. LACK OF TALENT. Can anyone tell me other than 1966, has England ever really dominated the international scene? In 1986, Maradona single handedly danced through the english midfield,defence, and rounded Shilton to score... In 1994, England wasn't even in the World Cup. Euro 96 was one of the better performance from England but still not good enough to beat the would be champions Germany...southgate was the poor scapegoat then.. Before 1996, the EPL was dominated by english players wasn't it? And foreign players was scarce.. Who did they blame for their non-international dominance then? The standard between 10, 20 years ago and now hasn't much changed.. the standard has always been the same. England are a strong team..but not a super power like Brazil or Argentina..
You can blame Arsenal for not giving local youths or local players enough chance. Would u prefer a 300k Fabregas or a 18million Carrick? Arsenal do not have the financial might like Man Utd or Chelsea.. We can just splurge on an unknown talent for 20million. Even Arsenal's up and coming young english star, Walcott, may end up with a total transfer of not less than 15million.
English players are too over-priced and most certainly, England are over-rated.
So why are english football players so expensive? Maybe its a supply and demand thing.. many fans seem to want successful english players in their teams, complaining too many non-english players in the EPL.. and they're only limited decent ones out there.. Therefore, when a club comes sniffing around, they jack up the price up to an obscene amount because they know they can get away with it just because the player's english.
So how about blaming english fans (like the jackass mentioned above) for england's international woes? ;P
P.S. came across an interesting pic
so now who's really to blame?
