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Quite clearly, it's pretty far removed from that. The fact is, the problems with the English national team are very deep rooted - we don't have enough good players coming through. This is borne out by the fact that our terrible defence picks itself, as the back ups were even worse. We can't...

If we'd got the draw against either Italy or Uruguay, nobody would have said it was ill deserved. And I wonder whether Costa Rica would have beaten "a Uruguay team fielding one Premiership player"? I see Italy didn't. As it turned out, it was our shìt luck that Suarez wasn't available for...

3/10? Ridiculous. We were narrowly beaten twice. You could play those three games on another day and we'd have got far more points (which equally wouldn't have made us world beaters). We've have cruised out of 5 of those 8 groups as a second seed.