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That's because our team now so weak so they've become big games. We're akin to Leeds in the Championship, where Middlesbrough and Sheff Wed are now big games for them. Rooney remains Rooney, but go back 10 years to when he started and consider who else he was playing with - Gary Neville, Rio...

How about he scored 7 goals in the 2014 World Cup qualifying group? That's one more than Sturridge and Welbeck combined. Not only that but he scored the opening goal home and away against Montenegro and home against Poland in that campaign. These aren't bonus goals when the game is already...

And I put it to you that the real problem with England is not that one man isn't world class, it's that the other 10 aren't even decent international class.

I understand your frustration with Rooney, but I can see it from his point of view too. 41 goals in 96 matches for England is a decent return, and 15 in his last 27 since 2010 indicates that the decline - if at all - has only been minor. If he scores 8 in his next 10 he matches the great...

Oh dear! On 22nd May 1994 in the wake of the Graham Taylor nightmare reign England played Norway in a friendly at Wembley. We'd endured rubbish football for the best part of 3 years. As expected, it was a dull affair. The final score was 0-0. The crowd? 64,327. Is Hodgson seriously...