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I don't think anyone has degenerated Iceland, I've seen it widely acknowledged that they fully deserved their win. In fact they caught England off guard by being far more enterprising than the commonly assumed "parked bus" tactics we all thought they'd set up with from the off. So great for...

I think what we can deduce is that its not a very good idea having Rooney off the pitch. Roy took him off v Russia, we lose control of a game we were cruising in, and end up conceding. Then Roy binned him for the Group decider, and with a badly (and predictably) misfiring Wilshire and a...

We've stumbled through. Yes we're in the next round, but you want to see a team evolving into a tournament. We did that (to an extent out of desperation) against the Welsh. Then Roy scatters it all to the wind again, 6 changes, treating this game like a 2nd round League Cup tie against lower...

Well, quite. Everyone is saying it because its so BLINDINGLY obvious, and yet still we see Kane dutifully lining up to take them. Its started as an odd idea, and now I think its just downright stubbornness that Roy is continuing with it. And if by some chance we DO actually score from a...

Exactly. Get the delivery into the box right, and Kane will often do the rest. He's a real threat in the air, an accomplished header of the ball. And if something falls to him in or around the box, he's clinical. Yet we wilfully sacrifice that threat so he can lob one over. Its nuts.

Even if he WAS the best corner-taker in the team, I'd still have the 2nd best corner-taker taking them, because Kane is our best forward, and therefore he is the one most likely to finish if he gets on the end of one of them. He comes alive in the box, he reacts, he makes space, he's an...

Having our best striker taking corners is a total nonsense, Kane should be in the box where he can do some damage. Any one of our INTERNATIONAL midfielders should be perfectly capable of delivering a decent ball in from a corner kick. Kane has a grand total of 0 assists from dead balls for...

Baffling. Especially Kane on corners duty. Its so ludicrous I'm starting to think Hodgson is just being stubborn about it now.

I'm not claiming we were unlucky. The finishing was poor, that's the sole reason we didn't win. But IMO it was a vibrant, enterprising, encouraging performance from England. Far better than the woeful, cautious, plodding dirge we usually serve up at a Finals tournament. I thought there was a...

He wasn't busy enough because we were so wasteful in front of goal. The ball was flying across the box all night with nobody applying the finishing touch, Llalama had a clear sight of goal from 12 yards out and dragged it wide, we had 15 attempts on goal and only got 5 on target. THAT was our...

The side was nicely balanced, fluent, controlled the game and played some excellent football. We should have been out of sight by half time, but we were let down by one thing - our finishing. It was almost Sheffield Wednesday-esque. If one or two of those multiple chances we created had been...

That would be the same Wayne Rooney who saved Man U in the Cup Final, and was by far and away the best player on the pitch by a country mile last night ? Mmkay.