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In that case I've not made myself very clear. We're not at a 40 year low point. I'd consider this an average England team (or maybe very slightly worse if pushed). The previous 40 years have produced next to nothing. In fact, outside tournaments hosted at home, we've only ever reached one...

I've no idea, and I'm struggling to understand what point you're trying to make.

I agree that having low expectations of this team is more reasonable, because they're nowhere near good enough to be troubling the best in the world - they are necessarily lower because 40 years of mediocrity finally seems to have sunk in. But that is not what I am saying. I am saying it is a...

Expectations being low is not a good thing for a nation like ours. I could accept it if I felt the FA was making necessary changes to improve in the long run. But they're not. We'll continue to be shit and these hungry youngsters will soon start acting like arrogant twats and embarrassing the...

This just proves that football is a game of opinions where statistics can be easily manipulated to prove one's point of view. I expect us to get to the last 16 usually, but we ought to be capable of getting to a semi once a decade, not once every 40 years. Our resources and population are...

I didn't say humiliated, I said outplayed. Ones that jump out at me are: Germany 1-4 Brazil 1-2 (looked second best even when Brazil were a man down for half an hour) Totally outplayed in the 0-0 v Italy in 2012 and against Portugal (2-2?) in 2006. Both ended in "unlucky" play off defeats...

I used to care a lot more - I went to Germany in 2006. But ultimately, we are never going to compete at the level we ought to be competing with the situation as it is, and that is where my apathy comes from. Every single major event comes round and we nearly always end up being totally...

This. It's only England FFS.