I think there are too many games, probably domestically and internationally. What I don't like is all the international friendlies that tend to be really boring and neither side is really interested in. The managers don't even tend to experiment that much with different systems or players and seem happy just not to lose them, however rubbish the game is. As well as this, there are too many easy games in qualifiers. England nearly always qualify with ease from their group and they are hardly a great side. The attitude to these games seems to be that the manager doesn't seem to care how bad the performance is, as long as they win.
The amount of poor games at the European Championships was quite high, I thought. When I was a kid, part of the appeal was you saw players you hadn't seen before that were really good, but you don't really get that now. I think that the quality of the champions' league over took international football, although the last few seasons seem to have declined a bit.
With England, back in the 90s, there was at least the though that maybe we had a few good players and might be able to beat a good team. The possibility seemed to be there, particularly at Euro 96 (I don't remember 1990, but I think there would have been the possibility there as well.) But since then, I always thought that the best teams were clearly better than us and would inevitably come out on top eventually. I do think that is because the English players since then haven't been as good. But even worse has happened to Scotland. They used to be pretty close to England ability wise, but now they are probably the worst British team!
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