Well it's finally here... whether or not you like football you might have noticed that the World Cup kicked off last Friday. As usual England failed to deliver what was expected by the nation, but do we expect too much? People always speak about the "Golden Generation" but when it comes down to it how many of the players are actually world class? Personally I would only say 2 players fall into that category and they are Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney although neither one has been a consistent performer at International level. Don't get me wrong a lot of the other players would get in many of the big teams across Europe but none of them are of the level of Messi, Torres or Ronaldo.
Don't get me wrong I think England will get through the group stage but I don't see them doing any better than the Quarters, that's if we don't meet Ze Germans in the group of 16! Hopefully I will be proved wrong and England will go all the way to glory, after all in 66 we started with a goalless draw to Uruguay... Yeah right!
Also there has been some controversy over the match ball used at the world cup. Firstly the keepers complained about difficulty in predicting the flight of the ball then everyone else has started to complain, the last time i checked a football is a air filled sphere encased in leather so what makes this ball different? Some say the ball is lighter but the manufacturer Adidas denies this as they say it has to meet stringent FIFA standards and there is a set weight. Now the next excuse has come out that it's actually the difference in the air at altitude and nothing to do with the ball! I say just get on with playing the game and concentrate on winning, not on excuses as to why you didn't win!
If the ball really is difficult to handle then why haven't the players had more chance to get used to it? The main reason is the Premiership has contractual obligations... what am I getting at you may ask, well the Germans, Brazilians, Argentines and the Americans among others have been using the world cup ball all season in their domestic leagues but we couldn't do that here as we had signed a contract with another ball supplier! Well done the FA!
Anyway enough of my ranting, I will post more photography soon and am going to look into promoting the site as to get more followers.
Thanks for reading
Stoosh
Interesting stuff Stu, its alright the goalies blaming the ball but they,d do better if they took off their oven gloves. In my day goalies only ever wore gloves if the ball was slippy through wet and mud and even then the gloves were very thin so you could still feel the ball. These days they,re scared of getting their hands stung , its like all the players than wear wool gloves on the pitch, bring back the proper men that played for the love of winning instead of the money.
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