The England Effect; English Football Teams’ History Of Failure.

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Published: November 20, 2010

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I would call myself an objectivist, a realist, one in tune with the pigments of reality. I have a finger on the pulse of society. Yet, on Wednesday, I realised that for football it’s different. Once the referee's whistle blows objectivity departs. I become a fan, a drone, a mindless patron of shirt and ball. Realism...... I don’t know the word.

At the start of this season my team, Leicester City, were cemented at the foot of the championship table, yet I still expected promotion. We went to Portsmouth, a team with possibly the best starting 11 in the league, went a goal and a man down after 20 minutes and I expected us to win.

Such blind faith is not logical. Such unrealistic expectation cannot be justified. It is what makes the football fan the football fan, a united force bound together through thick and thin. Us against them.

For the national team though, the goalposts change. The fan base is no longer secular or regional. ‘The enemy’ becomes a nation—a people place and ideology we cannot relate to. Our best versus their best. National pride is on the line. With a nation roaring at its back our 11 lions, the best the nation has to offer, take to the field.

The story from here on in usually plays out in an all too depressingly similar vein.

When it comes to the crunch, the time to stand up and be counted; we fall short. Victims of unrealised potential, the expectations, hopes and dreams of a nation shelved to be rekindled another year. This year is always "our year," and yet it never is. 45 years is an awfully long wait.

And as I watched the French farce unfurling before my eyes I realised the problem. However hard to stomach it may be, it is us, the fans and the media, who erect the platform for the players to fail. We who build them up so they have further to fall.

I understand the finer nuances of "pressure." Throughout my school years I was the bes...
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