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Most teams need a little bit of huff and puff in them and this is supplied by the English players. But when you only have huff and puff to select from you end up with the crap that is the England national team. As someone else pointed out; English players are good when they have a foreign player...

I would not say it bad, but from what I can tell it is at the same level as England. And rightly so given the investment and focus which has been put into this generation since just before the 2006 world cup; for the first fruits of the reform it is now or never. In fact some of the players have...

The expectation on this particular crop of German players to win this world cup is as great as anything I have witnessed in England.

We have been here before; some of us are old enough to recognise this as the start of the usual cycle which ends in vastly misjudged expectation and disappointment. Remember the golden generation for example?

And it completely ignores the expectation placed on other nations. England are not unique.