Our International team is vastly overrated as a direct result of the Premiership being so vastly overrated.
One thing Sky do extremely well is package its Premier League offering in such a glitzy glamourous way that the average viewer is convinced it really is THE BEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD. It blatantly isn't, and never has been.
It turns English players like Joey Barton and Wayne Bridge into GREAT PLAYERS, and it makes players like Kieron Dyer and Paul Robinson WORLD CLASS. It turns Craig Bellamy into a European class striker when in actual fact he's just a no neck welsh cunt from coventry.
Most games in the premiership are boring as fuck and the standard of our Top players is massively misrepresented to plastics up and down the country every time they watch the match down the pub.
Consequently when these poor bastards all get together and put an england shirt on, and you strip away all the razamatazz and take away their foreign team mates, they are disappointingly average players.
We probably have 3 players you could argue are/were world class, Gerrard, Beckham and Owen. maybe Scholes when he was playing. The rest of them? Rio Ferdinand a world class centre half? you're having a giraffe he has one major lapse a game, at least.
I don't neccesarily blame the players attitude as it isn't their fault they're grossly overpaid/overrated, I just don't think the talent really is there.
We'll still win the Euros though, of course.
