Originally Posted by
Jimmy Floyd
I watched every England sports team be conservative shite wasting great talent for 20+ years of my life (because that is culturally how we play sport in this country), even the rugby team that won in 2003 was pretty dull and didn't have to play the All Blacks or Springboks. Then our white ball cricket team threw that out the window from 2015, decided to play with ambition and actually use the talent at its disposal, and since then we have won 2/4 major tournaments and threatened to win the other two.
Because of that I'm kind of done with watching the football team, with its best array of players in my lifetime (maybe the top 5 players were better in the 'Golden Generation' but the top 15 are better now), try to game tournament football and deliberately draw 0-0 with the USA. It's no fun. I really hope we start playing better stuff in the knockouts because we have the players to do it and indeed have already done it against Iran, so it can be done.