Oh Dear !
The result that was considered a foregone conclusion has turned out to be nothing of the sort as the England football team has produced another miserable performance and been beaten by Iceland. I repeat, England has been beaten by Iceland.
Iceland is a nation with a population of 330,000 or thereabouts while England lays claim to having the best league in the world and, listening to the 'experts', also has some of the best players around. In truth, the league is good because of the huge number of foreign players it includes and the best of the English really don't cut the mustard. Iceland has no professional league of its own and its players only come together for international games but they have passion, something which most of the England players sadly lack.
In the past, we were told, by English pundits, that the likes of David Beckham were amongst the greatest in the world and yet neither Beckham nor the others of his generation were ever as good as they were said to be. Today, we're regularly told that Wayne Rooney is a 'great' player; we're told that Kane, Vardy, Sturridge, Sterling and the rest are, at the very least, very good. Watching this bunch of no-hopers tonight was an embarrassment; they scored a goal, from a penalty, conceded 2 from open play and then spent the next hour or so making little impact and giving Iceland few problems.
This England team was dreadful. There was no passion, no plan, little skill and no spark. The manager, Roy Hodgson, probably has little more than a few hours or days in his job but the players will continue to draw their vast club salaries; what do they really care about it all ? Yet again, they've been shown to be mediocre at best, poor at worst, and England has been humiliated at its national sport.
Let's hope Andy Murray wins Wimbledon, even though he is a Scot; it would at least help to take our minds off of the football for a while.
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