Re: Hands up who think Sven-Goran Eriksson is a twat?


"Lescor" <lescor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "POD {Ò¿Ó}" <DONT.EVEN.TRY.IT@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> His crap team scrape though to the world cup, he is so close to losing
>> his
>> job, but now that they have gotten through, this crotch stain is talking
>> about winning the thing!?!?!

It begs the question, who is more fickle? The fans, the media or 'the crotch
stain'?

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> He might do it too. Liverpool proved that it is possible to win a cup
> despite a poor manager who seemed out of his depth.

You got it the wrong way round. The manager has a proven pedigree in Europe
but it was the plyers who were out of their depth.

> I have always disliked Eriksson's methods. He seems to hand out
> caps as rewards to players in form ,like the worst England managers
> did way back, with little regard for a continuity of style and pattern.
> The concept of TEAM seems to play little part in his thinking or picks.

....when that should be the most important oart of the equation. Holland and
more recently France have shown what happens to a talented squad when you
take the word TEAM out.

> Friendlies are used, not to give the first choice side more time to get
> some understanding, but to give the second string 20 mins, often out
> of position, to try to prove their worth. This is an idiotic policy for a
> side
> which suffers more from lack of familiarity rather than shortage of
> talent.

It is also a problem that friendlies are not used to create a Plan B or try
out something completely different like a 3-5-2 formation. The 4-5-1 trial
was a glimmer of hope but that came about more down to a knee-jerk reaction
rather than intricate planning and thus was doomed to failure from the
start.

> If the main strikers are likely to be Owen and the crazy kid, why play
> Crouch when one is unavailable rather than a player closer to the style
> of the one missing? The attacking style for a team with a lofty centre
> forward is not going to be the same as one with a player like Rooney.

.....but it is good to have a Plan B for when Plan A doesn't work and
completely different strategy is needed. Even a Plan C is needed at this
level of competition and a Plan D wouldn't go amiss either for £4 million a
year. That us why you get to pick a 23-man squad not just a first-11.

> Will Crouch play in the WC? Unlikely, unless forced by injury. Then we
> will,once again, be forced to adapt to a strange attack rather than slot
> in someone who is familiar with a style of play like the rest of the
> side.

..If the training and preparation work was done properly then it wouldn't be
a new and strange tactic to adapt to. Rather a fluid and organised change
implemeted dynamically as and when the situation requires it.

> Is it so difficult for him to understand? Look at any good league side
> like the recent Arsenal and Man U sides, Chelsea now, and certainly
> Pool in the past, and we see a team style. If any of these had to field
> 4 reserves the style of the side remains unchanged. Although it might
> lose a bit of skill it would still look and play in a way every member
> understood. Does anyone yet know what the England teams style is?
> One game back it was a lone striker with DB central of 5?
> Now a towering forward with DB on the right? What next?

A 4-3-3 with any combination of Beckham,Wright-Phillips, Gerrard, Lampard
and Cole in the middle with the front three of Rooney, Owen and Crouch or
Defoe.

> This squad has more talent than the one which won the WC under
> Ramsey. But everyone in that group knew exactly what was expected of
> them and played as a team familiar with each other and the system,
> and this was the same for the reserves. Doubt if it will can ever happen
> with this man.
>

....and here's me thinking you were an optimist.


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