Re: Engerland

By Unnamed Sauce9/9/2025 10:48Tue Sep 9 10:48:03 2025In response to Re: Engerland

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I'd be happier with them just playing decent football and beating a fairly average/below average side quite well. Struggling to "overcome" Andorra twice is disrespectful. I don't expect a massacre (we'll leave that to The Boro) but a comprehensive victory or even showing willing would do.

I very rarely watch The "Premier" League but when I do, with a few rare exceptions its all this cagey, probing possession stuff. Not only boring, but ineffective. It's no use blaming it on the Germans or any other "foreign" football either. They don't play like that any more. Hamburg v St Pauli in the Bundesliga the other week was rip-roaring attacking football: end to end stuff. Germany's last quarter against NI was tremendous. Engerland's cautious football is coach-driven. Other than the Trillionaires, most clubs in the Prem are parking the bus and just hoping to survive another season. Even if they don't, they are still protected via the Parachute League until they go back up. It is a system which encourages negativity.

It says much about "Engerland" that Grealish doesn't get a look in , an uninjured Maddison is not required and the fading carthorses like Henderson Walker and now deadly Dan Burn are preferred.

Hopefully Boro will stream forwards in waves again tonight because honestly, I really love it when they do that. I think increasingly, our opponents will get wise to this and eventually may work out a way of stopping it. That style of football and some of the stuff played up the road is worth paying for. Fair play to the Villa fans for walking out on the England stuff. Exhibition football it wasn't.