They weren't all that a year ago either despite the revisionist hype. Real missed opportunity that was. So many parallels with the Sven era.
Very true Italy were awful in the first half of the final and should’ve been put away.
As said such a reactive manager, bit like someone closer to home.
9 times I’ve watched either England or wolves this season and just 5 goals they’ve managed.
Fair to say football is a grim affair currently.
His post match interviews were delusional to a point it’s very worrying.
It’s absolutely not a given that we’ll get out the group. People have looked at Iran and the USA and thought easy fodder before we play Wales.
Iran yes nothing special but by no means no mugs at all. USA functional but not a push over.
Wales won’t need any motivation to beat us either.
I’ll put good money on this being an absolute shambles of a World Cup where we’re drab barely score, scrape through the group then lose comfortably to The Netherlands in round 2.
To then be told by Southgate “the players gave it everything” or “we had no preparation time”
As for the players yes we’ve got some talent Kane, Bellingham, Foden spring to mind. But we’ve also got some vastly overhyped players.
Declan Rice just reminds me of another Scott Parker.
Whoever plays at the back are a car crash about to happen.
Playing Saka at LWB doesn’t work and makes him look far worse than he actually is.
People said it last night he’s trying to shoe horn his best players into the side.
Set the side up that allows your most creative players to play in far more advanced positions.
Stop having Foden dropping so deep, stop having Kane push wide to create anything.
