A Good Start

after years of looking like a has-been team, england's finally showing its true colours. the team has made some good (some even great...see point no.3) decisions over the summer -

1. sacking old, scared-to-make-decisions, only-choosing-big-names ericsson
2. getting in a more confident, more decisive steve maclaren (i've seen clips of his coaching methods - really good!!)
3. letting go of 'i'm england captain' david (i wanna play in the middle) beckham (finally someone has seen the light!!)
4. getting a stronger captain in john terry

england won 4-0 against the european champion greece on wednesday (even if it is a friendly...but its a good start).

hope the form will continue and the glory days of england would return.

on the same note, i watch an old match of england v czech a couple of nights ago. i love the way the played football in the 90's. all teamwork, no individuality. nowadays, with the huge sponsorship deals, each player (in one way or another) wants to outdo their team mates and teamwork takes a back seat. back then, the england team had gazza, robbo, phsyco pearce, platt...individually great players, skilled players, yet when get together as a team, they play as a team. no one outdos the other.