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Inept managers, both foreign and English: Sven McLaren Capello Hodgson None of them deserved to manage England, with a decent squad.

Obviously Nigeria did. Leaving England's players looking shell shocked, hoofing, disjointed. I've been one of the NSC optimists about England this summer. Now that's taken a big dent. My suspicion, but I hope I'm wrong, is that Lingard, Alli, Sterling, etc look good in the CL/PL because...

Dodgy England performance in the second half, as soon as Nigeria put us under pressure. Dier, Lingard and Alli haven't had the best of games. Dier caught for pace and out of position in Nigeria counter attacks. The benchmark - Iwobi is nothing special in the PL whatsoever, but has been...