FIFA World Cup 2018 Qualifying.

[Goonermerree]

Why does Vardy hardly ever get a game for England?

[Power n Glory]

It's bad management. I'd play Sturridge or Vardy over Kane. Or just play a two striker system. We should be able to build a fast counter attacking team.

[Letters]

We have a chance. Look at the Euros. Portugal have a very average team. Wales are average. On paper, we had a solid team but it comes down to bad management. I think it was during the World Cup in the first half against Italy, we were playing the best attacking football I’ve seen from England. Quick rapid attacks and it came from us playing Sterling behind the striker. Roy, like the idiot he is, decided to play Rooney in the middle and switch it from the second half and we looked a totally different team. We need a manager to make some hard decisions about selection because we’re not that far off technically.

Kane, Vardy, Sturridge, Welbeck, Rashford all are pretty decent front options. Germany, Portugal, Wales and Spain don’t have that sort of striker option. Our midfield isn’t that bad either. It’s weaker than our rivals but we’d be far worse off if we had a Lampard and Gerrard situation. Neither player distributed the ball well for their clubs and were lucky to have foreign partners next to them to ease that burden. We really struggled to play the ball to feet and would end up knocking the ball long to Peter Crouch or we had the days where we knocking it long to Heskey for him to nod it down to Owen. It was a piss poor long ball football.

We've been saying "it's the manager" for 50 years. I just think it's the players. I don't care who the manager is, the technical ability on show on Sunday was bloody awful.
The best players in the PL have been johnny foreigners for years.

[selassie]

Same dross served up on a different plate. Why are Lallana, Sterling, Walker and Rooney to name a few, any where near the team? And wtf does Vardy have to do to get a game?

I actually thought Lallana played OK, he looks half decent for England TBF. I'd keep Sterling in the team too, he's slightly headless chicken-esque but I think Pep will work wonders on him.

The whole team is a problem and will continue to be until the Manager takes the required action.

The fact that Big Sam more or less said Rooney has a free reign to do as he pleases says it all. At least he's honest I suppose.

[selassie]

It's bad management. I'd play Sturridge or Vardy over Kane. Or just play a two striker system. We should be able to build a fast counter attacking team.

Me too, Kane really struggles for England, he's been woeful.

[Power n Glory]

We've been saying "it's the manager" for 50 years. I just think it's the players. I don't care who the manager is, the technical ability on show on Sunday was bloody awful.
The best players in the PL have been johnny foreigners for years.

And I'm saying the technical level of our strikers, wingers and midfield is far better than what it was 10 years ago. We're still behind but we're a lot better than what we 10 years ago. On technical level.

Do you think Wales and Portugal are far more advanced than us technically?

[Xhaka Can’t]

I think it's because he's a pillock.

That, and the cup final.

He makes my ears vomit.

[Kano]

A lot of players are, but I judge them on footballing terms. You can't hate a guy for being able to put a ball into the net putting so much spin on it that it goes out of reach of the keeper.

It's our job as fans to irrationally hate some footballers from other clubs. Real world logic doesn't need to come into it because none of this shit matters at all.

But when they end their careers and end up on TV droning on like every other vapid pundit, then they deserve all the crap thrown their way. And that includes ex-Arsenal players. Henry was and probably always will be my favourite Arsenal player but I wish he'd shut the fuck up on TV.

[Letters]

And I'm saying the technical level of our strikers, wingers and midfield is far better than what it was 10 years ago. We're still behind but we're a lot better than what we 10 years ago. On technical level.

Do you think Wales and Portugal are far more advanced than us technically?

I don't think Wales or Portugal are more advanced technically actually so I guess if Portugal can blunder their way through and win it (and I still can't quite believe they did) then we can.
But I don't rate this lot at all. 10 years ago - maybe longer - I felt we had a chance against the big guns. In 90, 96 and 98 we lost on pens and in all 3 games we were fantastic and unlucky to lose.
I guess that was a long time ago now but now I don't feel we'd have any chance against a Germany or Brazil.

[Goonermerree]

It's our job as fans to irrationally hate some footballers from other clubs. Real world logic doesn't need to come into it because none of this shit matters at all.

But when they end their careers and end up on TV droning on like every other vapid pundit, then they deserve all the crap thrown their way. And that includes ex-Arsenal players. Henry was and probably always will be my favourite Arsenal player but I wish he'd shut the fuck up on TV.

Owen is woeful as a pundit, but I liked him as a player when he played for England. At least he knew how to get the ball in the net.