>invents Football>realy cares about Football>watches Football all the time>has the most expensive league in the world and arguably the best>sucks at FootballSeriously, what could possibly be the reason for that?
>>154487014they're still based tho
>>154487196From right to left; cheated, second best rugby, cheated
isn't it a combination of bosman rule and the exceptions in 'homegrown player' mean that the big clubs just sign foreign players and even fill their acadamies with them?
>>154487297u mad
>>154487014>>has the most expensive league in the world and arguably the bestthat's their problem.
>>154488781They have "sucked" long before the mid 2000s tho
>>154487014Greece and Denmark have won the Euros but England couldn't LMAO.
Irish Diaspora
>>154487014Why train your best players when you get more gate receipts and kit sales with Portugal, Brazil, Argentina and Germany's best players?Why get good managers when you can bring in the best Dutch, German and Spanish managers? It's pretty easy when you look at business instead of momentary national pride
>>154491422This except instead of money you think of results. They play in a league where Bournemouth can buy multiple wonderkids from Brazil, France and Argentina. Realistically, how do you stay competitive in England while developing local talent? Ligue 1 is poor and that precisely why they produce enough talent to feed not only the French NT but multiple African NTs too.
>>154491517I doubt these bottom PL teams are any better than our mid table teams just because they can buy some "wonderkid" who may or may not be a fraud.
>>154491517Just put a foreign limit, honestly if Arsenal vs Liverpool was just 22 englishmen it wouldn't affect viewership that much. The world just prefers the english game.
>>154491517You can't. Clubs in England need to stay competitive at all times, they can't afford o wait for players to develop.We are seeing more and more british players going abroad. Many even end up at random portuguese clubs loke Marcus Edwards
>>154487014They've been consistently good for like 6 years now.
>>154492299Thats meanigless in the bigger picture. Germany has 4 World Cups
>>154487014Conquered race of pathetic cowards and liars
>>154487014ranked above Brazil btw
>>154487014England are the most successful national team of all time. That is an indisputable fact.
Many angry jfs itt. Sad to see!
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>>154491726this is the correct answer, instead of having to have only 8 homegrown players in your squad (and being allowed less if you leave gaps), they should make it so you're only allowed 8 foreigners and the other 17 must be english
Best womens team
>>154491726>if Arsenal vs Liverpool was just 22 englishmen it wouldn't affect viewership that muchThe absolute state of this board
>>154494627it's a jf cope to pretend english clubs were shit until ten years ago
>>154494126>>154494187>one WCYou guys will never live this one down LOL
>>154487014>hates england>posts shit about england>has to use the english language to do it because no one speaks his shitholuese
>>154495379We're due>2017 - Under 20 WC winners, U19 Euro winners>2018 - Semi Final WC>2021 - Euro Final>2022 - WC Quarter Final>2023 - Euro Under 21 winners>2024 - Euro Final>2025 - Euro Under 21 Winners>2026 - ???
what's going on with this thread??it is displayed at the top of the catalog even though it is on page 2, plus it has that (P: 2) marker in the catalog other threads don't have, plus there is this weird border around the image
>>154493402Trvke
>>154495591you pinned it, you dumb newfag fuck
>>154495608lmao what, no idea how I did that or that we can even do that
>>154495518>2026 - Ro16 England loseIf England win their group to Mexico in the heat, smog and altitude of Mexico Cityor if Croatia win it and England are runners-up then they'll get beaten by Spain, that is if England survive the Ro32Ghana and Panama are dross so don't count.
>>154495621Hold alt and click on the thread in the catalogue.
>>154495675I don't think I did that, maybe there is a keyboard shortcut I hitfor example I found only recently by accident after years on /lit/ that you can do the spoiler text by selecting it and ctrl+s, no need to manually type out the [spoiler] tags
>>154495033English Football had it's moments of dominance in the 70-80s when the PL was still 95% british lads, but the lack of WCs and Euros is an indicative that they were never THE top guys.
>>154495658My complex simulation has us playing South Korea in R16. That's a cheeky 1-0 win with a Harry Maguire substitute header.
>>154495846It's rigged for Mexico. Only way for them to reach the quarters is hosting it. Worst Korea are trash. If England win the group it'll be Mexico. Mexico going out in the quarters again.
>>154495922Mexico are shit and most of the games are in the US in air conditioned stadiums. I fancy Canada to go the furthest out of the host nations
>>154489399Basically everybody BUT England has won them at this point. Denmark, Greece, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, Soviet Union, kek.
>>154496003All others in Mexico's group are shit too. Mexicans will run their asses off. Play all their games in Mexico, pretty much all in the heat, smog and altitude of Azteca, incl. Ro32 and 16.
>>154495758>they were never THE top guysObviously not but they were often not as bad as people thought. In 70 they went out to Brazil, in 74 and 78 they failed to qualify but the tournament was only 16 teams so there were more quirks like this. England had several good players like Keegan (Balloon Door winner) Trevor Francis (European Cup winner). In 82 England didn't lose a game but after 3 wins and 2 draws went out to the weird double group stage structure. In 86 - hand of god. In 90 semi final. Should have been in the 94 world cup as they had loads of good players but a tough qualifying group and Graham Taylor as manager fucked everything up. 1998 - one of the top 4 teams in the tournament, Beckham red card. 2002 - went out to Brazil the eventual winners. 2006 golden generation implodes again to Portugal. 2007 to 2015 dark era, England commit to overhaul the grass roots and bring through new players. 2017 to 2026 England start to bear the fruits of the new youth structure and are consistently a top 4 team.
>>154491716thats true for all leagues
>>154496143why would you write this epic tome just to argue with a favela-dweller? lol. just be english and you've already won lad
>>154495703huh i [spoiler]didn't[/spoiler] know that
>>154496288I want to get in their heads early. Have them believing it's our divine right to win so it seeps into the crowd.
>>154487014>FootballSoccer.
>>154496143England being insular as it was only went to the wc for the first time in 1950, that might have fucked you guys development compared to the rest of the world. Also, the refusal to learn from JFsBut the old 4-4-2 was succesful against European competition during the 80s, why is that you think?
>>154488766Andy Murray is a haggis muncher.>>154487297We'll own your north forever, because, despite the absolute fucking state of the mainland, your countrymen would still rather be bongoloids than spudownies. >>154489973They left because they wanted to be considered human for a change. Found out recently that the Irish are more closely related to the potato than anyone else. Kind of justifies the potato famine in that we prevented cannibalism.
>>154497603>taking credit for someone else’s accomplishmentsHow very delightfully English
>>154497990Provide examples. Or are you just going to do what you do best? Picrel.
>>154487014>>has the most expensive league in the world and arguably the bestAnd what % of it is English?
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>>154497603>the mainland
>>154496143I want you to know that these excuses are incredibly embarrassing for you.
>>154492411England didn't really lose, chud
>>154496288Bit rude innit?
>>154487014Two back to back Euro finals and 4th place at the World Cup in 2018 put them at a better spot than Brazil right now.
>>154515535Croatia has also been great the last two world cups, still not one of the top dogs
