Quite. But on the plus side, none of our (English) players will be stuck in a Russian hotel for a week (or possibly 2 weeks) while the locals set off fire alarms at 3 in the morning, and the KGB put mildly diarrhetic drugs in our water supply, so the players continuously feel like and play like...
Exactly. So in the biggest tournament in the world we are 'planning for the future' and 'following a pathway' and yet at the lowest level (park and kids football) it is all about 'winnng it' and 'stuck in'. We have everything the wrong way round.
This.
Honesty, sometimes I'm astonished the extent to which some people think other people spend all their time sticking pins into a seagull effigy. :shrug: