What has a 'small wool town' got to do with it? The small minded attitude is to hide our best players away from the spotlight ...probably the same people who expect us to compete at the highest level but would like us to be called Walton L4 and for no one to know about us. We should be shouting from the rooftops that we have THREE players in the full England squad...and THAT is something that improves our standing in the football scene...which, in case you don't know, extends beyond the end of Walton Road and is in fact GLOBAL
Some people want it all ways......they say'the media ignores us' and at the same time they say 'lets not join in with anything because it will draw attention to us. I'll tell you one thing...football clubs thrive on the global attention that they recieve, and having players on international duty goes a long way to creating this attention.
Honestly read back what you just wrote there mate and come back to me when you've got the media, his agent and half of the nation trying to unsettle him into a move.
The small wool town comment was based on what I see which people from those places having a strong identity with the English football team, which makes sense as sporting wise it's likely their town isn't going to be particularly proficient at anything to make them proud.
But Everton, a scouse team, are not too into the England thing and just want boss players to play boss footie for Everton. Getting into the England team at an early age seldom helps us with retaining our best players.
It won't increase our global standing by Ross making the England team, foreign lids will see him as an England player rather than an Everton player. Winning trophies consistently will increase our standing though, and we need our best players for that.
See where Im going with this?