World Cup Fever

I say it's world cup fever, not just because the world cup is on, but because, it has very quickly spread around the world like the H1N1 virus.

Every facebook status, every conversation, every pub, and every television is themed on the World Cup.

Now I am openly not the biggest fan of football but I do enjoy the World Cup when it's on, but does it really have to dominate every facet of life like this? Whilst writing this blog I am yes, believe it or not watching football.

Realistically I have no idea who's going to win because I don't know enough about football to make an educated decision, but from the disgust of a lot of my friends about the performance of the English team so far, apparently they are in with a chance. Either this, or like every major competition that England plays in, the media has overly publicised the fact that the World Cup is on and with an internationally renowned manager and the 'talent' of some of the English players, they are in with a fighting chance.

As of recent times however the entire country has destroyed Fabio Capello in the media, and figured that he's the worst coach in the world. I remember a time not so long ago, when everybody raved that they had such a clever and experienced coach, and this seems to be the case with many an England manager. Sven, Keegan, that red headed prat, and even Capello now have all been victimised by the British public.. The interesting fact being that all of these managers have had winning records. In for the past 55 years only two coaches have had losing records the reason being both of these managers were simply caretakers after another had been fired and they only coached 4 matches between them both.

The realistic problem being is that maybe, just maybe, the England players aren't talented enough. Blame it onthey're lack of playing time together, blame it on the media's high expectations, blame it on the high profile of the players caring more about earning money than playing for their national team, blame it on what you want, but is it really that fair to pin all the blame on the manager.

The fact of the matter is that the talent hasn't really been there. There are a select few world class players; Rooney, Gerrard, umm, I'm going dry now. But also players play within systems for their clubs and it's very hard for certain players to adapt to different systems.

So all I'm saying is, there will be a lot of pointing fingers at Capello and he will probably be fired but lets try picking on your beloved players on the actual pitch first.

Rant over