A few points from me...
1. Anyone that expects or even thinks we are anywhere near world-beaters has not been watching English football with their brain in-gear for about 15-20yrs
2. Better performance tonight, actually did enough to win it IMO
3. The defining comment for me about England's football future was from the commentator on ITV tonight...words to the effect that Costa Rica were supposed to be the whipping-boys in this group! EVERYONE casting judgement about Roy Hodgson needs to think about whether they're victims of negative media propaganda because that's their line now & when he was with Liverpool. THEY said Costa Rica were the whipping-boys. THEY got it wrong...THEY are not "experts" at all. Don't fall for their idiotic agendas on anything let alone football.
PUSB
A few points from me...
1. Anyone that expects or even thinks we are anywhere near world-beaters has not been watching English football with their brain in-gear for about 15-20yrs
2. Better performance tonight, actually did enough to win it IMO
3. The defining comment for me about England's football future was from the commentator on ITV tonight...words to the effect that Costa Rica were supposed to be the whipping-boys in this group! EVERYONE casting judgement about Roy Hodgson needs to think about whether they're victims of negative media propaganda because that's their line now & when he was with Liverpool. THEY said Costa Rica were the whipping-boys. THEY got it wrong...THEY are not "experts" at all. Don't fall for their idiotic agendas on anything let alone football.
PUSB
1. I don't think anyone would think we would win the friggin thing but to crash out of the tournament in a gutless defensive way was piss poor
2. Playing well and winning are two very very different things.
3. Personally I don't think the England camp did enough research into any of our opponents, we were tactically naïve against Uraguay, gave Italy way too much respect and expected to walk over CR. This clearly didn't happen.
I have none of that negative media here, although I can imagine what its like, my opinion is from watching them in Miami and then watching the games on tv.
My opinion is that we got our tactics wrong , by playing to deep and not pressing high enough, giving teams too much respect and time on the ball. This is down to the coach. And I'm not swayed in anyway by the SUN . I haven't read that or and English newspaper since Christmas.
I'm just hoping we learn and use this wretched experience to help us grow for euro 2016 .