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Originally Posted by lancsdave
You mean he left behind a squad full of world beaters for that lot ?
Or could it just be the system is so screwed by the money men we will never have world beaters again ?
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Again? They weren't world beaters in '66, they raised their game a bit given home advantage and won against the odds. Remember how everybody laughed at Ramsey when he said we could win it then? Ever since, for some reason we've seemed to expect to do it again, against even bigger odds.
Not that I don't agree the system is screwed - if the best English players can't get regular games for their clubs on Saturday, how can we expect them to compete at world level?
And Hodgson certainly didn't leave a bunch of world beaters behind who would have made the difference. A couple of lucky bounces might have ....