TEUTONIC KNIGHTS SLAY 3 LIONS

WARNING! WARNING!  To all England supporters.  This rant may be a hard pill to swallow so I offer you a friendly warning that what is to follow is definitely not kind to the team formerly known as England.

England Put to the Sword By Prolific German Youth Brigade.

Germany Put the Boots to the Backsides of England as they Crash Out of the World Cup

England Taken Out Back to the Woodshed and Fed to the Wood Chipper.

Hunting Season Over as Germans Bag Three Dead Lions.

Germany Avenges 1966 in Very Eerie Style

Deutschland Uber England as the destroy Three lions 4-1

And the headlines could go on and on and on.  Fact is, Sunday’s epic Germany vs England match turned out to be one of the most exciting yet one sided matches between two heavyweights since perhaps the 1970 final when Brazil laid the same kind whoop ass beating on Italy.


Germany’s victory was not only complete but it was an awesome display of fast and composed counter attacking mastery that English players, coaches and supporters will not forget for a good long while.  Why should they, after all they keep bringing up the freakish 5-1 win over Germany in a friendly back in 2001 with the same repetitiveness and passion as they do their one World Cup victory.

You see, for decades now England, it’s media and supporters have been suffering from a very sad and destructive ailment.  They suffer from delusions of grandeur and unrealistic entitlement which I for one have always laughed at out loud because they have absolutely nothing to show for them selves on the international level for going on 43 years.  Yet they act like they are the greatest football power in the world when they would be more fairly ranked at the bottom end of the top twenty.  Their domestic league may be a strong and highly competitive one, but that has more to do with the major influx of foreign talent as well as top foreign coaches, trainers and managers, than by the less than impressive standards of English born players.

So what transpired yesterday was rough justice and a strong lesson in reality for a team that up to that match looked incapable of beating their own nation under 21 side, Togo or Canada yet alone the elite of Germany.  What transpired in Bloemfontein Stadium in South Africa was a total humiliation and lesson in football that England received at the hands of a youthful, imaginative and highly skilled German machine that gave a new meaning to fast break counter attacking that England’s overmatched, slow old guard could not cope with.  Alesson that they should have nightmares over for as long as they walked around boasting over a freaky win in a meaningless match almost ten years before.

I have been a football fanatic since back in 1972 and in that time I have watched many a great game and many a great team.  And when it comes to Germany, I can honestly say without hesitation that that was the most dominant performance by a German team against a preconceived football power since Germany did the same dismantling job of England in the European Championships Quarter-Final 1st leg back in 1972 when Gerd Mueller, Netzer, Beckenbauer and company tore apart a much better England club 3-1 at Wembley.  They then went on to meet Russian in the final and destroyed them 3-0 and believe me when I say that in both games, the score flattered the loser. 

Well pass the torch from one Mueller to another today.  From the great goal scoring machine Gerd Mueller we now have years of greatness to look forward to due to the emergence of 20 year old Thomas Mueller who on the day demonstrated vision, pace, finesse and finishing skill that dismantled the Three Lions in a awe inspiring manner.  He got help too.  Not just by old experienced war horses like Miroslav Klose, Arne Friedrich and Philip Lahm, but by a fellow group of young players who all made their bones last year in the European Under  21’s tournament in which they lifted the trophy defeating yet again England in similar fashion by 4-0. 

Unlike England, all German clubs were willing to promote and play their young stars as opposed to spending big money on foreign players

Mueller, Ozil, Badstuber, Khedira, Boateng, Marin, Neuer, Kroos are all names many may not know by heart now, but over the next decade they will become very familiar with them.  They are the best of an incredible German youth movement that was allowed to grown and be nurtured by a German FA and all Bundesliga clubs unlike the shackles and oppression evident in the English game regarding it’s young talent.  Unlike England, all German clubs were willing to promote and play their young stars as opposed to spending big money on foreign players who would take their positions away from them based on their high salaries.  No, instead German teams decided that they would build their clubs internally first and buy affordable foreign talent second.  This is why German players are now so good and why the German Bundesliga is recognized officially as the most profitable domestic league in all of the world and why all teams have consistent sellouts at their stadiums.  England!!!!!!  Are you reading this?  Wake the Hell up and get with the program. 

But the chances are slim to none of that happening immediately.  Instead the top English clubs like Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal would rather field a legion of overpriced and overrated foreign talent while stacking up unheard of debt in the process.  At some point the madness must end.

But I digress; lets get back to the problem with the English national joke.  Fabio Capello has obviously become a massive failure in a short two-week span.  He has gone from savior to goat in a matter of four games.  Should Capello stay on or should there be yet another regime change?  I firmly believe that before the manager is replaced, every muppet who is presently working and running the English Football Federation should hand in their resignation or get the sack.  Idiots like Lord Triesman and the others who survived after his scandalous end need to be forced out and new fresh thinking intelligent people need to be placed in charge.  The next thing on the agenda is to find a replacement for Capello who is not just guilty for England’s worst ever World Cup appearance, but who was too cowardly to make the necessary changes that would have promoted youth and energy to a stale, tired and lethargic English attack.

So who should replace Capello?  That’s not my job but if I am to be bold and offer one name I would throw the name Juergen Klinsmann at everyone. Klinsmann you say? Wasn’t he recently sacked by Bayern Munich?  Well yes he was but Klinsmann mantra and way of making big changes is a work in progress that takes a couple of years to bare fruit. Lets remember what he did with a broken down German machine that had four cylinders broken and looked slow, unimaginative and old. He came and not only changed the personnel by ejecting many of the old names, but he brought in his new trainers, tactics coaches and training systems along with yoga instructors, psychologists and experts from the US who revolutionized and shocked the German way of doing things. And it took time. Many hated the changes and it took the club over a year before the totally bought in to his news system which required greater physical fitness, positive attitudes and a faster better flowing style of play.

The rest is history.  Germany never won the World Cup on home soil but they surprised everyone with their style of play, energy and never say die attitude.  They won over an entire nation and many fans around the world that couldn’t quite believe they were watching Germany.  A third place finish was a fantastic result for a team many doubted could get out of their group.  The new revolution had taken place and after the tournament Klinsmann retired a national hero and in his place he left his right hand man, an unknown by the name Joachim Low to helm the team.  Well everyone knows Low now and what he has done for Germany back in the EUROS of 2008 and presently in this World Cup.  The credit has to go to Klinsmann for getting it right.  And I believe the former Tottenham fan favorite could do the same for England.  But then again, maybe not.  Not until the Sir Alex Ferguson’s, Arsene Wenger’s and Carlo Ancelotti’s of the Premier league start buying, promoting and using promising young English players instead of overpriced imports.  I won’t hold my breath.