It begs the question, who is more fickle? The fans, the media or 'the crotch stain'?
You got it the wrong way round. The manager has a proven pedigree in Europe but it was the plyers who were out of their depth.
...when that should be the most important oart of the equation. Holland and more recently France have shown what happens to a talented squad when you take the word TEAM out.
It is also a problem that friendlies are not used to create a Plan B or try out something completely different like a 3-5-2 formation. The 4-5-1 trial was a glimmer of hope but that came about more down to a knee-jerk reaction rather than intricate planning and thus was doomed to failure from the start.
....but it is good to have a Plan B for when Plan A doesn't work and completely different strategy is needed. Even a Plan C is needed at this level of competition and a Plan D wouldn't go amiss either for £4 million a year. That us why you get to pick a 23-man squad not just a first-11.
.If the training and preparation work was done properly then it wouldn't be a new and strange tactic to adapt to. Rather a fluid and organised change implemeted dynamically as and when the situation requires it.
A 4-3-3 with any combination of Beckham,Wright-Phillips, Gerrard, Lampard and Cole in the middle with the front three of Rooney, Owen and Crouch or Defoe.
Hands up who think SvenGoran Eriksson is a twat 4020That's the problem. Sven has established the norm, regardless of whether it works or not. He's established it so well that it is almost impossible to change without major upheavals. For example dropping Beckham...
...and here's me thinking you were an optimist.
