Listening to Andy Goldstein on Thursday night on the radio travelling back after the San Marino game on talk sport and then Stan Collymore on Sunday night after the Estonia game infuriated me, basically slagging off the team for poor performances and not enough goals ..... Erm Hello...what did we all say before the World Cup ? That we had no chance of winning it and were rebuilding with a young squad for the future...and so it transpired as we did not win a game in all five of our matches including the pre tournament friendlies.. On returning home our captain Steven Gerrard then retired from the national team alongside Frank Lampard..two giants of world football ..let alone the England team..and on the back of losing John Terry and Rio Ferdinand not so long ago..it was acknowledged that the current European Qualifiers were a perfect opportunity for Roy to experiment and that the games would provide a LEARNING CURVE for our young players to gain experience and build for the future..so correct me if I am wrong but 3 wins out of 3 with 8 scored and none conceded is a pretty good start to that target.. Granted we may not have played the most cohesive flowing football at times...but this is a LEARNING CURVE for our young team to develop..in the current qualifying campaign you have to look no further than Portugal, Spain, Holland, Italy and even current world champions Germany to find results against lower ranked opposition that have rocked them.. So before we shoot them down as the media oh so love to do in this country lets give them a chance..our goal should be 2018 and beyond..because believe it or not we probably wont win in France in 2016.. Get behind the team..its a YOUNG TEAM..they will make mistakes , thats life, but they only way they will get better is with our SUPPORT...having a go at them will do nothing for their confidence..its always the press and the media that want to put us down for never being good enough..well I have got news for you..in 2016 it will be 50 years of hurt..we have no divine right to win anything..So.to the true supporter I salute you..and will hopefully see you at the next home game v Slovenia at Wembley for our Captains 100th appearance for his country..and soon to be highest ever goal scorer..Wayne Rooney take a bow..
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:10:00 +0000
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