Originally Posted by
Niall_Quinn
English football is not about helping a kid like Wilshere to mature and improve the national team so we might actually compete. It's about something much more important than that shit, it's about hype. Oodles and dollops of the stuff. Lovely hype that swings wildly between the absolute extremes, preferably with a bit of sex thrown in. From disaster to triumph with a void in the middle. These journos can't figure out that by paralysing the manager and the players with their ridiculous expectations and stupid claims of players like Lampard being "world class" rather than efficient, they're going to see mediocre performances designed to grab the bare minimum required to avoid public slaughter. Hence Ukraine, 1 point needed, 1 point obtained, 1 castration avoided. Journos, they say they want the team to do well and then they do everything in their power to prevent that outcome. Wilshere could step up into that world class bracket, he's shown glimpses (like the Barca match). But he's still learning his trade. Unfortunately he has to do it in the middle of a circus ring run by fat, drunk journalists. Shame but goes with the territory because we can't be bothered to fix the territory. He had a year long injury but that's barely worth mentioning.