[bennythedip2]

..Yes your right in some ways about skill's but the real truth is, there are players today with fantastic skill's, take a look at Ronaldinho at Barcelona. The problem in this country now, is kids and youth players are trained to play in a formation, individual skill gets blocked in favour of tactic's and formation's learned on a blackboard, then practiced on the training ground's, it's all about midfield play. This is probably the reason why England as a football nation are only second division in world rankings !
.. I really don't understand the media in this country , they are not interested in what goes on, on the playing field, their interested comes from selling news papers, or the sport radio stations are only interested in whipping up public rivalry at club levels, and knocking players and managers and sensationalising who is going to be the first manager to be sacked !
.. When you look back over the last few years, really since the formation of the championship league, money has become the motivator of everyone involved with football. Chairmen and the board of director's, managers, are not motivated to win anymore, their all afraid of losing !!
.. So ultimately we are where we are today, sensational media hype ,about a game that lost it's way years ago in this country.
.. 'The good ol days', will always be 'the good ol days', no matter what generation, I remember the football in the days when i played (minor league admittedly) when players like 'Rodney Marsh , Stan Bowels, George Best and many others played the wonderful game, and even these players were mullered by the press , but at least they played football the way we all loved to see it , as we payed at the turnstile we knew we 'd get value for our money, those were the days when the supporter mattered, and the game was ......football .. Benny