quadraspaz

Even his flounces are fucking shit.

Germany were already a country with a history (and consequently a set-up and, more importantly, a culture) of producing technically proficient players capable of doing well at major tournaments. They consider semi-final exits to be failures, meanwhile we still wistfully hark back to Italia 90 as though it was some sort of golden age rather than a flash in the pan. So lets not make out they were in the football wilderness and 6 years later they had sorted everything. And you could argue the very fact they acted to put things right shows how different they are to us and how far they are ahead of us so many aspects. Italy are similar. They play the game in the right way from a very young age and their players are taught to protect the ball and having a good first touch is considered essential rather than a luxury. With that in mind and the paradigm shift required to really advance us as a football nation then yes, 10 years is ridiculous, because you really can't quantify in time what it would take. I bet we're still saying similar things in 10 years time though.