Are English sportsmen in meltdown?

[yes yes yes]

Yes the English are the best at Darts…
Yes the English are the best at Snooker…
Yes the English premier league is probably the strongest in Europe. If you compare its top four teams with the best four in the other strong nations in Europe at present the best has to be the English or Spanish.

However Darts and Snooker are not major sports.The top four teams in England are Manchester UTD, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. If they are not all owned by foreigners i'm sure they will be soon. They are all managed by foreigners and most of their first teams are dominated by foreigners. God help the premier league if these foreign billionaires get tired of throwing money at footballers. :eek:

So in a week where England’s football, rugby and cricket teams were all convincingly beaten does England have a major crisis in its top sports? And if you think the answer is :yesyes: :yesyes: :yesyes: what do you think can be done to turn things around? And before you suggest it NO! NO! NO! the English cannot adopt Tiger Woods.

 

[mrtrebus]

What a silly question! Oh & darts & snooker ARE major sports, unlike American Football for instance.

 

[D-rock]

I find it funny that there are people in the UK that will say about how the US is only good at sports it's invented, (Even if almost all of that is due to the fact we just don't care about them.) when the UK has an uncanny knack for not doing well at ANY major sport at all even the ones they created, and their population is roughly around where the other large European countries are at. I don't care about soccer, but I hope someday we win a World Cup, even if we completely luck our way into it, just so that we can say we have won as much as the place that invented it. (Even then their win wasn't totally non-controversial.) Even if there isn't a World Cup like thing for the sports that we play, and if you went with something like gold medals do you know how many times somebody else would have to win to equal our amount in basketball, or Canada's amount in hockey. That's kind of what you expect for places that invent their own sports. :tongue:

 

[GregCentauro]

England's football team was beaten by Brazil with only a handful of players from the first line-up on the pitch. Friendlies mean nothing. England comfortably qualified for South Africa. I don't see a crisis there. Capello has done them good.

Overall British sportspeople are as successful as ever. The medal count at Beijing was extraordinary. And it is likely to increase (slightly) at London 2012.

And nobody needs Cricket. Let the Sri Lankans have it!

 

[Lungzyn]

One bad week and theyre in a meltdown? Sounds like something the English sports media would say :dunno:
I dont like them :crash:
There does seem to be a large amount of foreign players over there, limiting oppurtunities for local talent?

 

[yes yes yes]

Oh & darts & snooker ARE major sports, unlike American Football for instance.

Fair point! But that all depends on how you define major. Being an English man and living in England I get the chance to watch both darts and snooker and it is noticeable how few countries across the world participate in these sports and many darts and snooker players have second jobs as they cant earn enough to live on. So not major in my eyes.

American football is the biggest sport in America and it’s growing in popularity in many parts of the world. They even played a sell-out game here in London a few weeks ago. And the demand for tickets was so huge there is serious talk of staging a game in England permanently. And being a fan that’s great news for me.

One bad week and theyre in a meltdown? Sounds like something the English sports media would say :dunno:

You are spot on. :thumbsup: It's a major story in the sports pages in England. However, the English have had more than just a bad week in rugby and cricket. :crying:

 

[Lungzyn]

You are spot on. :thumbsup: It's a major story in the sports pages in England. However, the English have had more than just a bad week in rugby and cricket. :crying:

Just wait until they all win on one week and the media will start talking about how great they are

 

[yes yes yes]

Just wait until they all win on one week and the media will start talking about how great they are

:rofl::rofl:

 

[Lungzyn]

You know it's true

 

[yes yes yes]

You know it's true

I agree and that's why i'm laughing. :thumbsup: :hatsoff:

However, there are problems that need to be addressed.
Like much of what Chuck Norris said in a previous post.
And I wouldn't argue with Chuck.

 

[Shadowfax 10]

In football, the English FA should reduce the number of forgeiners that play in the premiership, there too many of them and we need more English players in the premiership and if we don't do that then we have to start finding English players in the lower leagues. English football clubs should do more for young English school kids so when they grow up they could progress to be a potential talented players in the England international side.

 

[L3ggy]

I don't get it; even though that England has some of the worlds best players, they still lack to be able to beat teams that's lower than them in skill.

 

[PornKhaos]

I don't get it; even though that England has some of the worlds best players, they still lack to be able to beat teams that's lower than them in skill.

In Football ANY team can beat ANY team. Look at that team who beat Barcelona in the Champions League group stages the other week. It really doesnt matter how powerful a team is they can still be beat.

 

[assholebythedoor]

That does not mean England is letting other teams win.

 

[jasonk282]

It was a fuckin friendly match that ment absolutly nothing. kinda like pre-season NFL games.

 

[assholebythedoor]

They don't play as good as they use to?

 

[wigster]

Ok so let me get this straight you think English sport is in decline, even though we beat Australia in the Ashes, we've been to the last two rugby world cups winning one of them, and are football team had one of the best qualifying records in the world cup qualifyers.

 

[assholebythedoor]

English teams are nice to see.

 

[Shadowfax 10]

Ok so let me get this straight you think English sport is in decline, even though we beat Australia in the Ashes, we've been to the last two rugby world cups winning one of them, and are football team had one of the best qualifying records in the world cup qualifyers.

Good point, England may have one of the best qualifying record, but England never won a World cup tournament or a European tournament apart from 1966 which I feel we capable of winning.

 

[wigster]

Good point, England may have one of the best qualifying record, but England never won a World cup tournament or a European tournament apart from 1966 which I feel we capable of winning.

I think we can win this world cup if are first eleven stay fit and don't get suspended, are major problem is back up, we just don't have enough world class players that can come into the first eleven and do the job.

But are first eleven i feel can beat anybody on there day.