Kaizero

My personal take on England is that the mentality is so off throughout the entire system. The players are looking like playing for England is just something they do every other month. They don't seem proud to be playing for England. They think they are good because they are good players - no focus on working as a team. Big egos abound and the players seem like they hardly know eachother. There's no pride. No passion. No belief in the team above individuals. Look at Italy. They've sent one of their worst squads in history (based on player by player comparisons - not actually how they work as a unit) and are looking like they want this. They play for eachother. They are proud to play for Italy. They want to bring this home. They're not just there because it's something they kinda have to do. I don't see a qucik fix for England. You need a manager that can sort out the mentality of the players and make them love their teammates and be proud to be involved, not just feel like they are there because they're entitled to. Even if you get a big personality in like a Bielsa I don't think it can sort out the mentality issue as there's just not enough days with the squad to build that. It needs to be changed at club level. You need to pick the players that are hungry. Your Vardy's, your Drinkwaters, your Townsends. The players that want to play for England and feel proud to don the shirt. But due to the way the media controls your entire squad, and the way you keep picking weak managers to manage the England team - always picking from name and not performances - you'll always have the same issue. They'll feel they are entitled to play for England. A team full of weaker individuals proud to be there and wanting to fight could still outperform a team full of entitled cunts. We saw it this season with Leicester. It's what needs to happen to England, but it will never happen - and that is very sad. International football is the one stage where you could put someone like Shearer in charge and it could have a very positive effect. An English legend steering the ship could change some mentalities, even if Shearer isn't, on paper, the best manager ever.

You watched that youtube doc too that was posted here a few days ago? Nah, an article in a Norwegian newspaper. Was linked to an article with the headline "Miracles exist"

Poland 1 - 2 Portugal Wales 1 - 3 Belgium Germany 0 - 1 Italy France 1 - 2 Iceland

Been reading up on Iceland now. They have some amazing things in place for developing their youngsters, even the coaches for 4 year olds need to have at least a UEFA Pro B license All kids play for free, parents don't need to pay a participation fee. Parents not allowed to say anything to the coaches or they're not allowed to come to the matches Kids get divided into how good they are from they are four years old. We need to adopt this model. This seems like some good shit.

Probably send us all a f***ing participation medal as well. There will be a trophy now. Guaranteed, man I was gonna do it anyway because I'm a sad b******, but now I'll feel good doing it Spend your money on something else man. f*** that trophy. Imagine having to ship it to khay or Coco the devil? It's honestly not that expensive My only issue is if whoever wins it will pass it on when they lose it the following year Just make a new one, you could probably afford about 60 trophies. Good thing Mike is out because like fuck would he let me ship something to him

Portugal, Belgium, Italy and Iceland. France will implode at some point and I'd love for it to be against Iceland

Probably send us all a f***ing participation medal as well. There will be a trophy now. Guaranteed, man I was gonna do it anyway because I'm a sad b******, but now I'll feel good doing it Spend your money on something else man. Fuck that trophy. Imagine having to ship it to khay or Coco the devil? It's honestly not that expensive My only issue is if whoever wins it will pass it on when they lose it the following year

He had like three days left.

It's not. Iceland are a very good side with results to back it up. It's absolute arrogance to dismiss them based on the fact they used to be nothing. Their captain has just been relegated from the Championship They are not a good side at all man. Again, it's a team sport. Danny Simpson played for us, now he's a PL champion. It's about how you get your pieces to play together, man. I don't get why this is hard to understand

Probably send us all a fucking participation medal as well. There will be a trophy now. Guaranteed, man I was gonna do it anyway because I'm a sad bastard, but now I'll feel good doing it

For posterity: http://i.imgur.com/XJDP7so.png

It's not. Iceland are a very good side with results to back it up. It's absolute arrogance to dismiss them based on the fact they used to be nothing. We should absolutely beat them. No. England are not a good team. There's a reason I bet on Iceland. Yes, I'm sure you were saying we're not a good team when we won all of our qualifying games and when we beat Germany. We massively underperformed this tournament through poor squad selection and tactics. There's plenty of ability in our team. You have many talented individuals. Player by player comparison you were probably better on paper. You're not a team though, and that is the main issue in a sport where being a team is the main purpose. I'm not sure how you'll solve that either.

It's not. Iceland are a very good side with results to back it up. It's absolute arrogance to dismiss them based on the fact they used to be nothing. It's the whole Leicester thing again. "But next week they'll be shit... Maybe next week... Surely they'll lose next week... They'll not beat Man City at the Etihad... No way they'll win the league...... .... .... Leicester are the best team ever, said it all along."

Think you just shut the door on best foreigner, tbh. Trumping his own campaign right there

It's not. Iceland are a very good side with results to back it up. It's absolute arrogance to dismiss them based on the fact they used to be nothing. We should absolutely beat them. No. England are not a good team. There's a reason I bet on Iceland.

It's not. Iceland are a very good side with results to back it up. It's absolute arrogance to dismiss them based on the fact they used to be nothing.

So arrogant. Because i think we can beat we can beat Iceland? GTFO Not like i'm saying it about a legitimately great team now is it. If me thinking we can beat Iceland is arrogant then go ahead and call me arrogant. You're fucking arrogant

Iceland really nullified England tbh. England were shit, but Iceland played their game to perfection. It's Roy's fault for not knowing that Iceland plays the same way every fucking match.

Nice one man Chile to win the Copa, Italy to beat Spain and Iceland to advance. Who the fuck would have thought that?

Icelandic expert: "I don't get it. We play the same way every time. Every time. Yet nobody seems to be able to understand how we play."

EVERYTHING IS GREAY FOREVER HAHAHHAHA HAHA YES YES WHAT IS LIFE

HAHAHHAHAHAHA FUCK OFF MOLE

Love the commentator on Norwegian TV goong "the fuck is Kane taking the kicks for? He should be in the box!"

Three Bjarnasons on now

Should've been years ago.