{"id":30926,"date":"2016-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/commentator-s-furious-outburst-at-english-footballers\/"},"modified":"2016-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:00:00","slug":"commentator-s-furious-outburst-at-english-footballers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/commentator-s-furious-outburst-at-english-footballers\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentator\u2019s furious outburst at English footballers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Image | Twitter<\/h6>\n<h3>Fox Football commentator Robbie Slater has rained down scorn on the English footballers knocked out of Euro 2016 by Iceland, calling them out-of-touch millionaires who are the \u201claughing stock\u201d of the world.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt was absolutely embarrassing,\u201d Slater told FIVEAA\u2019s Rowey and Bicks of England\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the darkest day in English football history by a long shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slater said <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/iceland-s-absolutely-ridiculous-win-over-england\">England&#8217;s 2-1 loss to Iceland<\/a> on Tuesday was&nbsp;\u201cpathetic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve left as the laughing stock not only of Europe but of the football world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis smelt of players who were overpaid. They\u2019re multimillionaires these players, but you can\u2019t get to them. They don\u2019t accept criticism. They\u2019re guarded by PR agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slater said Iceland\u2019s part-timers could only \u201cdream of the lifestyle of these players that live in their massive houses, have about five or six houses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will haunt English football for decades,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO ROBBIE SLATER:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/271195621&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Slater said England\u2019s young players would be scarred by the loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere just seemed to be no \u2013 dare you say it \u2013 desire to be there. And that\u2019s a terrible thing to say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey go back next week and they\u2019re going to cop it from the English press, but they\u2019ll go back into hiding into their cocoon lifestyle earning \u00a3200,000 a week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slater also said he believed manager Roy Hodgson\u2019s decision to quit after the game was pre-planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI fail to see how you could write such a polished speech from the final whistle to the press conference. There\u2019s not that much time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/ben-cousins-full-blown-drug-addict-and-a-danger-to-himself-and-others\">BEN COUSINS IS NOW A DANGER TO OTHERS, SAYS INSIDER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/banking-enquiry-would-be-a-lawyers-picnic-says-pm\">BANKING ENQUIRY A LAWYERS\u2019 PICNIC, SAYS PM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image | Twitter Fox Football commentator Robbie Slater has rained down scorn on the English footballers knocked out of Euro 2016 by Iceland, calling them out-of-touch millionaires who are the \u201claughing stock\u201d of the world. \u201cIt was absolutely embarrassing,\u201d Slater told FIVEAA\u2019s Rowey and Bicks of England\u2019s loss. \u201cIt is the darkest day in English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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