Re: Euro Qualifiers
England lack structure. Badly. I'm sure everyone has their role in that side but when you add them all together you end up a tad short of a football team. Part of the problem is that their club sides, Utd, Pool, Chelsea, Spurs all play in very different ways and have far greater differences in style than most continental sides from the same nation would have. There's this daft idea that all English sides play a "high tempo" game and therefore it's all compatible but this tactical similarity is minor compared to the differences. If McClaren wants success he needs to pick a style that the largest number of his players are comfortable with and have the others adopt to a role in it. Seeing good players like Rooney and Gerrard get wasted and frustrated during England games is just silly. Fundamentally while they know what they're doing at club level they're effectively rudderless on the international stage.
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