I’ve got a big emotion connection to England but international break is just tedious. The expectation is to top the qualifying group and recently we’ve been very good qualifiers so most games are confortable wins against nations that are much worse than us. Italy and Ukraine games are betters but we still won 3/4 of those.
Like this weekend is just pointless for England. We’re playing two teams who (no disrespect) we’re going to beat even with our B team and we’ve booked the top spot barring an infeasible goal difference swing. It doesn’t really give us anything in terms of prep except giving some players a run out for England like Cole Palmer.
I know I probably sound like a cocky England fan but it’s the truth for the last 15 years. Or maybe it’s because this summer is massive for England, we’re probably going into this tournament as favourites alongside France so I’m already sick of us winning games in anticipation of the inevitable knockout round loss.
No. Football is one of the few professions where the players actually get paid close to the true value of their labour.
As basically best players = best results = maximised revenue, the best players hold the negotiating power to capture all the profit from football. Clubs are very unprofitable in general for their revenue and I think it’s better that players get this share than owners and shareholders.
You can’t compare to public sector, so don’t. Compare to bankers, lawyers and other private sector professions.