At Home Park. A large but quiet 11,500 crowd witnessed a 2-1 win for England.
On show, Moses Odebajo (spelling?) for his debut, played wide right and looked class. But he was outshone by a certain John Swift who scored the 1st from Odebajo's low cross & setting up the 2nd with smart footwork in the corner, and cutting back from the byline.
After seeing the future of our England team, I'm not convinced bar the odd one or 2. Looks like the same tippy tappy football, which is all very nice, but the USA matched our technical ability. It was only our 'experience in football' that won the game.
The 2 players you mentioned are ok but will never make it at the top level- Both destined for successful football but in the second tier.
We are and always have been second class ( except 1966-1970) internationally with but a handful of very good players over the last few decades.
I use to follow England but since capello the heart and soul has gone from us and I can't get up for it anymore. God knows how long it's been since we were a good English football team.
-- Edited by ian on Sunday 29th of March 2015 11:21:40 PM
The 2 players you mentioned are ok but will never make it at the top level- Both destined for successful football but in the second tier.
We are and always have been second class ( except 1966-1970) internationally with but a handful of very good players over the last few decades.
I use to follow England but since capello the heart and soul has gone from us and I can't get up for it anymore. God knows how long it's been since we were a good English football team.
-- Edited by ian on Sunday 29th of March 2015 11:21:40 PM
I'd like to put my two penneths worth in here ian, i disagree about being second class, it's our system that's wrong and is failing all of us...our youngsters are coming out of the academy's as good as any players across the world technically, we're consistently reaching semis and finals of major competitions at u14,15,16,17...our issue is that clubs just do not use them, do not blood them into the first team squads, where they will train and play against the better players, where they learn the most. Instead our top clubs just go and buy foreign, ready made players. Those youngsters, at 17, 18, 19 years of age, are then pushed out on loan to championship/L1/2 clubs, where they're playing against players who are no better than them in terms of football ability, where they cannot improve and end up stagnating and playing at that level. It really is about time the FA grew some balls and sorted the premier league out instead of cowtowing to them.
