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I gave him too much credit. Anyone who still wants to defend him please consider his pre-match comments about why he picked Sterling as being the key to beat this side and then the changes he made during the game. It might be an England manager disease as Hoddle aftertimed and contradicted his...

I agree to a large extent tbh. It's also very often a refereeing decision that goes a long way to determining an outcome (which I think is why Alex Ferguson behaved the way he did towards referees to mitigate the randomness as much as possible.) There is definitely motivation as a factor but I...

I don't think it matters particularly until you have to beat a team that is of similar ability to yours or there is real pressure to win. Walking the qualifiers is one thing, winning in the knockout phase of a major tournament is another. We obviously should beat Iceland, Roy doesn't need to...

I was just giving the backdrop to Hodgson's appointment - however you view the Liverpool period (and losing at home to Northampton is pretty miserable whichever way you slice it) you can't argue that his stock was so high that he needed to be tempted with £3.5 million per year. An utter joke.

Capello was an Italian fellow that came for the money. Roy is an Englishman who had endured an atrocious spell with Liverpool and had done ok so far at WBA prior to getting the England job. Not in a million years did they need to go to £3.5m a year to get him.

Apologies in advance as I haven't read the entire thread so it may have already been pointed out that Roy Hodgson is paid £3.5m per year to manage England. £3.5m per year! I would suggest that whoever negotiates the contracts for the FA might want to try a bit harder next time. I rather...