Wow - that has to be the worst performance and most embarrassing result I have ever seen from an England side. I don't know where to start with it TBH. One thing though, stuff like 'this has been coming' is just an empty soundbite. Because it hasn't 'been coming'. Fine, we've been toothless upfront which is where we were supposed to be strongest, but aside from a Joe Hart fuckup which again you'd not expect him to repeat, there was nothing I could have foreseen to prepare me for that disgrace.
For me, it all stemmed from that equaliser. A total failure to do the most basic of requirements - it completely ripped any kind of confidence in the side, we panicked like crazy when Iceland were 40 yards away from our goal, and whenever the ball went out of play for a thrown (a fucking THROW IN for fucks sake) we looked about as comfortable as Glasgowolf at a SNP conference. With the confidence also went any kind of gameplan - not a single player seemed to have any idea what they were supposed to do.
Individuals? Bloody hell, with the exception of a bright cameo from Rashford, every single one of them had an absolute nightmare. The centre halves were dreadful - Cahill has zero organisational/leadership skills, Walker negated by the showboating lummox playing in front of him (more on Sturridge later). Dier - our best player in the group stages - forgot how to pass the thing 5 yards, Rooney had a shocker and failed to act as the leader he should be, Sterling was better than he was v Wales, so his overall contribution can be upgraded to mere 'crap', but the two crowning turds in the waterpipe were Kane and Sturridge. Kane did his best to emulate Kevin Francis, with free kicks that reminded me of that Peter Kay advert for John Smiths. Fucking abominable - why was he on the free kicks?! His body language was atrocious as well. As for Sturridge - the last player I went that mental at was probably Steve Corica. He could almost be congratulated for choosing the wrong option EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. He simply does not have a footballing brain. Actually, remove the word 'footballing' from that last sentence. The booking he picked up showed how utterly moronic he is.
I'm thoroughly pissed off - the players threw Hodgson under a bus with that lack of effort, application, passion etc etc etc. It was bereft of pretty much everything you need to win a game of football, especially against a team who are just that - a team.
It's absolutely essential that whoever takes over is able to get that lot playing together, and not for themselves. That's not going to be easy. I hope they take their time with this appointment because we DO have a good nucleus, we've got more promising youngsters coming through and I don't want a substandard manager with zero coaching ability brought in. I don't care if the next coach is foreign either TBH, there is SOMETHING there to build on but right now, those players have badly let their country down.
