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I don't think any of those things you've mentioned are down to physical 'effort' and indeed I'm struggling to see how you can relate them all. And I don't think the keeper making a world record number of saves speaks very highly of the 'effort' (your definition) being put in by the players in...

The USA and Algeria games were after extra time, so I'd expect their players to be more tired than ours were after say, Costa Rica. (With the added factor that that they were playing in games that mattered as opposed to a dead rubber). So yes, I feel our players put as much effort into playing...

No, I really don't think you can say that we got knocked out because the players "didn't try". There's a lot of things wrong with the English team but lack of effort isn't one of them. In the past people (not accusing you) have blamed lack of effort/passion/committment as the reason for our...

I completely, totally and 100% agree with everything you've said .... except the last sentence with which I violently disagree! I can just about stand to be in the same political union as the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish, all of us supporting the same football team would be too much.

One thing on a slight tangent: population size has nothing to do with success. Scotland has a population of about five million, Uruaguay has a population of just over three. Granted the Faroe Island or the Vatican would probably struggle to win the World Cup, but once you get over a certain...

We've been second-tier since we first started playing competitive international football in 1950 - the only difference is now we recognise it. in 1950 we lost 1-0 to the USA in Belo Horizonte and that was a major shock. After all we were the nation that invented the game, so it follows we should...