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What? I didn't say we were supposed to do more. I was replying to a post that said the average FIFA rankings of the teams we've faced was high, and I was pointing out that the statistic was misleading. That's true enough. As things are though, we've had an easier route than Belgium, and the post...

And the sly acting classes the team had clearly been having, without the media finding out.

That seems like a great example of lies, damn lies and statistics. Included in that average will be our game against Belgium, which we lost. Belgium had to beat Brazil, France had to beat Argentina and Uruguay, while we had Sweden and Colombia. There's no need to try and cheat with stats, we've...

At the moment we're still in, and everyone's in a good mood. Well, most of us. Looking at some posts on NSC it seems some people are in a terrible mood, but I don't know why. Anyway, right now most of us are happy, and if we lose against Croatia we'll reflect that we got further than we have for...

Couldn't you wait until the end?

I didn't realise it was twice. The FA have gone up in my estimation (which remains rock bottom) for asking him again. Maybe nothing could have changed his mind, but I'd have allowed him to not lead us out against Scotland had it have come to it.

I don't think you can know that. He said he couldn't lead us out against Scotland, but I expect he could have been persuaded to lead us out against other teams.

Fergie is the man for the job.