Club or Country?

The club or country dilemma for football fans has been a long lasting argument, if you ask many people, they will say hands down, 'club over country' I, myself will admit to this, but pride and respect still should be held to our home nation, even if you do prefer to follow your club over your country. The majority of football fans, especially England fans have a tendancy not to be very bothered about our national side, until of course we are in the World Cup or the Europpean Championships, then the entire nation comes together and everyone is the biggest England fan in the country. The 'club over country' thought goes very much out of the window or it seems to do so. Personally you should back both your club and your nation, even if you have a preferance, which I have nothing against, but when your nation is not doing very well or are playing meaningless games, you should get behind your country as much as you would do for your club.

If England had a squad at their disposal to which Spain have would the attitude with English fans change, I think it would, currently the English side really should be better than it currently is, we boast one of the, if not the strongest elite divisons in the world, yet we have a second rate national side to go with this. Look at the other nations with big leagues, they boast squads which would or have played England off the park. Germany, Spain and Italy come to mind. But as I said above, regardless of our current state of affairs it should be irrelvent, everyone forgets how second rate our side is when we pop up in major championships.