I am a footie fan and most other sports.

Compare and contrast - the rugby team played every game to win for a number of years before the Rugby World Cup, were fit as butcher's dogs; every player played in the same position game after game and knew precisely his role within a larger scheme of things; we won the Cup.

The football team plays friendlies and the team changes half way through (which it will tomorrow); changes systems every game (4-4-2 tomorrow diamond against France; we need a new fitness coach to get them fit by lapping the training ground; the players are played out of position (Gerrard - Lampard; the alternative to Lampard (Scholes) can't get a game in a poor Manure side); Becks plays in a position which he doesn't want to play in and his private life has affected his game so he is playing poorly; nine days before the French game Sven does not even know the team he will play.

Of course we will win!!

Dave
www.collectorsfolk.co.uk