England and quota

Gooners

I usually don’t give two seconds to England or international football for that matter. The only reason I watch those sleepy internationals are to watch how the Arsenal players are performing. My interest always ends when they are substituted or only begins when they come in.

But when the managers, players and media start talking about matters that concerns Arsenal, while I can look away most of the time, the current accusation of Arsenal being bad for England is just too much for me. In the next few days, we will see whether the press will either shut up about how great the English national side is or continue to over hype average players as if they are Gods on the pitch. I hope it is the former. What England need is a reality check. The only thing going for them is their marketing ability. That guy/team should get a huge pay rise. Not the men sitting on top of the FA administration.

As for the managers and players who blindly advocate for quota, I have only one question for them: if you are so damn righteous about the idea, why don’t you start or get your non-English manager to start?

On Agbonlahor, the media just loves printing shit. I remember The Independent running an article on Benayoun to Arsenal for over £15m. The only thing those media goons have that we don’t is access to clubs’ officials. Otherwise, they are no better than most bloggers on the web. No wonder blogging is such a massive success. Granted there are few really good writers in the media around, the rest are just shit.

Villa would be lucky to get more than £5m off Arsenal for Gabby. £15m for achieving what? And pro-quota wonder why Arsene would rather buy non-English players. If Gabby has potential, going by what has happened in the previous few seasons, Arsenal will only do a structured deal ala Walcott. Dream on if they think they can hustle Wenger for £15m up front. Then again, it is probably the media having shit for brains on this.

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