Following on from comments with regards to England's struggles as an international side, Arsène Wenger has branded international football boring.

The comments came after Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson blamed Arsenal for England's failure to beat Spain and not having a successful World Cup campaign.

Wenger said: "National football is boring. Club football has moved forward and national football has gone backwards.

"I'm not the fault for England's frustrations.

"It's a vicious circle because your expectation level is very high and when England go to the World Cup, you expect England to win it.

"You cannot go overboard in February about a friendly against Spain who have a good team.
"England have good players — Dyer, Carrick, Rooney. You have to accept you can lose sometimes."

its totally ridiculous blaming other ppl just bcoz they dont have a good enough manager to handle national side. why this so called chairman of m'boro steve gibson (wondering why chairman of the club goes by the name steve gibson in rhyme with former manager m'boro ste-c) chirping about england failure in a wrong direction. probably its time for england to look at their own weaknesses rather than pointing at someone elses nose. what do you expect from a manager who only managed guiding his former club to UEFA cup final. its too much for a man such as ste-c. if youre not good enough, why would arsene wenger bother to look. i believe hes a manager with the ability to differenciate between personal judements and his work. he picked theo walcott, out of only God knows how many young talents out there, and hes english. so steve....mind your own club and perhaps it would be better if you could start a massive search around england to get another bobby robson, bobby charlton etc etc.