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I'm loving this England team, Southgate and the whole new era. I also agree with you about the high quality of the England team and squad in the noughties. Packed with players who played winning CL football, where they were played by quality club managers for years (managers who could've...

Photos of Rooney opening smoking at pool sides during his summer holidays over the years, bears out your comment. Players such as Cruyff smoked 45 years ago, but football now is far more physically demanding and Rooney was competing with players who looked after themselves 12 months of the year.

Great post, I agree with all your points. It's easy NOW to rubbish the opposition in our 4 wins, but in the past we always stumbled in one or two of these games. We've not only won these 4 matches, but we've dominated for very long periods in each one. 3 of these teams resorted to violence at...

6 years ago Wilshire's style of a brilliant short passing game, including some great CL performances in a dodgy Arsenal team, could have seen him playing for Barca. His career has declined due to his injury record, caused in part by him chasing every ball and going full throttle into every...

Not knocking Rooney, but Charlton scored those from central midfield.

Not Rooney’s fault whatsoever, but when he played and after our other CL quality players retired, the lesser players left felt obliged (in their own heads, not from coaching), to always pass to Rooney. It was very predictable for the opposition. He wasn’t holding us back as such.

Getting rid of Allardyce was an amazing bit of luck. For the first time, I want to thank a tabloid, for the entrapment.