“What I saw of the English in their 1-1 draw against the USA had very little to do with football,” Beckenbauer said. “It looked to me as if the English have gone backwards into the bad old days of kick and rush. “I am not sure if the England coach, Fabio Capello, can still change much there. The English are being punished for the fact that there are very few English players in the English Premier League clubs, as they use better foreign players from all over the world.”(Is that why Michael Ballack, the German Star, couldn't hold down a first team place at Chelsea who have now dispensed with his services?)
Franz Beckenbauer(The Kaiser)  was born in the post-war ruins of Munich, the second son of postal-worker Franz Beckenbauer, Sr. and his wife Antonie. He grew up in the working-class district of Giesing. We note that a certain Kaiser, who once swept unsuccesfully at Wembley in 1966, is having a go at England for using a "long ball". May we humbly tell this bespectacled old man that England are using the same ball as everyone else. It is meant to be round, not long. If he wishes we shall be pleased to recommend him to an optician in order that he can see the same as everyone else. It only took 4 mins for England to short pass the ball through the USA defence. Unfortunately it was a long ball from Dempsey that equalised for the USA. But then maybe the myopic Gentleman thought he was watching an old American boxer throwing a sucker punch at Gene Tunny.