[Cantona7]

Originally Posted by The Hunter

Italian football:

English football:

The miscomception that nothing bad ever happens in English football is something that we should really explore.
The world cups in the thirties were won fair and sqaure, this has been explored by UEFA, and this only came up after some sour Englishmen decided to tarnish are repuation, probably out of jealousy. Its sad that some members of the British public believe these lies.

Lastly, to paint a picture that English football is holier than though, and nothing ever goes wrong is quite the laugh.

Capello was brought in, because unlike Cantona7, the majority of the English public are tired of losing to small tier nations like Croatia at home. That is scandalous.

In the 1930s if England had entered the World Cup they would probably have won them. The reason we did not enter was because there was a long running dispute between the FA and FIFA and we could not be asked to enter and as I have said there is enough evidence that questions those early World Cup successes Italy had in the 1930s. Even prominent Italian writers have questioned some of the methods used at the time. The 1982 success was lucky in my opinion. The best team was Brazil in that tournament and in arguably the best ever international game that I have ever seen Brazil scored two of the greatest ever goals for pure skill and technique that I have ever seen (Socrates and Falcao) and basically gave Rossi a hat-trick. Italy could never play great football like that even in there wildest dreams. There game plan has always been to counter attack or defend a lead. If the British public had to watch football like that the game would go bust in this country our fans just would not accept it.

The 2006 World Cup what a bore and once again the Italians knew there only way to win was to offend and abuse Zidane.

English football is more holier than what Italian football could ever be. There have been enough scandals in Italian football to last a lifetime and they always get away with it. So lets put that to bed straight away. The Juve scandal's are something out of a best seller. If the team doctor is not drugging all the players for a whole season then the president is bribing referees and other match officials. It's outrageous and then there are fans being shot and policemen being killed, I could go forever.

Finally the English FA are a spineless bunch of suits who don't give two monkeys about English football and never listen to public opinion. Capello is the easy option and he will fail because he will never understand the dynamics of English football. We dont play defensive football we play offensive in your face football and all we need is a little tweaking here and there and to get our players to understand how lucky they are to put on that shirt with the 3 lions. The players attitudes are the problem.