Why England aren't the best...

There is only one way to have good national team, have lots of money. Money is what most people are in football for, there is no getting away from it. There are the masses who love football because it is football (is there any other reason) but those people apart from the players are in football for money, almost all the FIFA executives aren't former footballers, they're businessmen who are willing to sacrifice are beloved game for a few extra zero's added onto a bank account in Switzerland (why do you think FIFA and UEFA are based there?) Money is what does everything for the game, look at any aspect of football and you can boil it own to money in some form or another, even seven year olds kicking a ball around on a rain sodden pitch while there parents cheer for them from the touchline in deckchairs drinking coffee from flasks, money is everywhere in the game and there is no getting away from it.

And people are worried about global warming, this is a real global disaster...

National teams especially need a big economy to drive them to greatness, the only exceptions are the USA and Australia, who invest in their own versions of 'football' or what we should call 'called-football-but-has-very-limited-use-of-the-foot-involved-so-should-actually-be-called-american/australian-rugby-don't-be-ridiculous-in-calling-it-football-you-silly-rednecks/pommies' (takes deep breath), but if you look at all the strong footballing nations they all have the backing of strong/large economies, I challenge you to name one. Even Brazil has the sixth biggest economy in the world. Actually, you could say Argentina and Mexico but even then they don't have economies you'd call small (plus Argentina have Lionel Messi). having a good national football team is a sign of strength. It's a good thing the cold war wasn't decided by a football match (real football, not fake 'football' with all the girlie padding and use of hands) as we'd now all be sitting in Gulag's in Siberia and saying 'comrade' to every one. And the one thing all the big teams seem to agree on is that the thing you invest most in youth football, the reason Spain and Germany are the two of the best teams in the world is the fact that they have great youth set ups. Real Madrid and Barcelona use there reserve teams as a way of training the young talent. This is the reason we don't do well, we rely to heavily on old talent, the way the German youth teams play is the exactly the same as the way the seniors do so when they get called up it is no challenge for them to fit into the senior squad. It is the opposite for England. If we did this then we would do better in major tournaments. It's not like we don't have the talent or anything, it's just we haven't got the right system. This is why we aren't the best. There seems to be only only one way to be successful and not follow this model. Be Brazil...