Ha Ha Ha its the oldest Joke in town - england played a game of football last night.

I have to admit that I was very perturbed at the thought of paying yet another fee to another awful TV channel for the privilege of seeing the new england under fabulous cappello.

I listened instead to 5live and need not have worried that I had missed anything novel. Did the FA sell the rights to sentantneatta to raise extra cash to pay off wombley stadium? At least if you watched the Olympics they seem to manage to perform to extremes on lottery money better than our so called "superstar" footballers.

When will the england players realise that once they put on "the shirt" they are judged solely by their performance and not by the number of zeros in their salary? I was booing in my living room at them. They must surely realise that if they were paid £500 per week they would at least get some sympathy for the incompetent performances.

Time to switch off the sports channels so that the revenue that created the Premier league ends and we get back to loving/hating our footballers based on whether they can play or not. It is no longer value for money despite what the money makers in the league say.

Frankly Im totally disillusioned with all football matters above the championship, it has become a meaningless charade of who can pay even more ridiculous money for players who turn up for 90 minutes once or twice a week and are tired at the start of the season. Which brings me to another point - the premier league have been after a Xmas break for ages to rest the players - seemed a good idea after all they do it in spain. But now they want the break to organise competitions abroad to sell the brand, what a bunch of greedy people.

Yours disrespectfully to money football Henners

PS I support sheffield united just so you know and no I wasnt surprised that we survived 1 season in the premier league - I was more shocked we actually got there in the first place. :-)

Well said Henners. You have to wonder if football is stood on the edge of a precipice. Financially and morally bankrupt in so many ways and progressively alienating a vast chunk of the core support in pursuit of the vast soap opera that is modern football. If revenues do start to fall the whole lot is going to implode.

How the national pride of our olympians has shown up these footballers.

Bruce

Did we win?

Several of the reasons why I don't give flying fuck about football anymore.
Premier League players motto: Big bucks - no pride.

No complaints here.

This is just the sort of crap that the FA should be selling to Setanta.

Steve

Same old same old shite.

Sack Cappello - we won't qualify - hopeless

Unusually, I agree with all the above comments.

Premiership footballers are overpaid to the extent that they are now a total irrelevance.

I would rather go to watch Dagenham & Redbridge than watch a Premiership match. OK, the standard of football would not be as good, but I could not sit and watch a match questioning the sanity of a "sport" that has money as its' focal point.

Maybe the Premiership players should be barred from the England team: just have the Championship etc supplying the players. We may get stuffed, but I bet there would be more effort put in by the players when they were getting stuffed.

Sid Bonkers, Neasden FC

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Premiership footballers are overpaid to the extent that they are now a total irrelevance.

Well said Big Al

Are you the Big Al - one the greatest centre halves I've ever seen



ATB Rotf

Sorry, no.

I like to think that if I had been fitter, more dedicated and more talented, I could have been a reasonable left back. In the dressing room most likely.