Monday, June 26, 2006

Erickson

What's wrong with Erickson? For someone who's paid more than 4 million pounds a year, he's capable of better management and tactics. For starters, he's the first non-Englishman to coach the England side(kind of an irony for a country who invented soccer) since 2000 and he has been in the news for the wrong reasons as he couldn't control his roving eyes and hands and indulge in affairs with a Bangladeshi woman who happens to work in the English Football Association.
Yesterday's match against Ecadour was pathatic as England struggled to find rhythm as they were playing in a unfamiliar 4-5-1 formation and Rooney, a support striker was playing as an all and out striker. Any manager in the world will know that Rooney cannot play in the position and the World Cup offers no luxuries of testing out formations when teams should have done that months ago. England for all their talent scored only 1 goal courtesy of David Beckham from a classic free-kick
The only highlight of the match was the camera zooming in on Victoria who was estatic after her hubby scored. I had rather see Victoria jumping up and down than see the team which I support play like crap. Their only salvation lies in the quarter finals and I doubt they will get past the quarters unless they can conjur up something remarkable. God Save the English!!

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