1. It was too hot in Nice. Not enough time to acclimate to the warm weather in the South of France. They wished they could have played up North. England can't handle the hot summer weather, just as Beckham complained in the past about not being able to play in the heat with his long-sleeves on, as he just had to look cool and didn't think he looked the part in short-sleeves. So how many of this squad played in long sleeves in Nice? Rooney, Sturridge and Alli.
2. England just doesn't know how to travel away from home as a unit for longer than 3 days in a foreign country. They do fine when they play for their respective league teams when they go away for 3 days in the Champions League and whatnot, but when they have to leave for an extended period away from their own home comforts they lose all sense and feel of themselves and can't find their feet. A direct result of players not playing enough in foreign leagues whereas all the foreigners get it from playing elsewhere like England away from their own country
4. The team were fed dodgy croissants in the morning by a bitter baker whose great great great great great great great great great grandfather was killed at Agincourt.
The water from the southern aquifer has too much Ca & Mg in it and doesn't allow the brave hart to work up a lather prior to the match
7. Woy's attempt to increase the size of the lads' nuts by implementing the 'hands behind the head for those in the wall' during free kick practice, backfired and several of the team are booked in at the Wellington hospital over the next few days for testicle recovery procedures.
The camera angle made them look worse than what they really were................. ( is that possible?)
It's the Yankee-fied pyjama-looking American style uniform kits that they wore, resembling some idiotic baseball team with the shoulders in different colors, and even the socks that don't match, making them look like clowns out to entertain kids at the weekend (and entertain, and play like clowns, they did)
They are paid too much. Collective weekly wages of the starting 11. - £1m. Collective weekly wages of England's starting 15 against Australia - £70,000.
In all the games, our players looked great playing tippy-tappy football, but sadly could rarely get anywhere near the goal. Corners and free kicks looked more like rugby conversion attempts
That's it! They thought they were playing rugby and had to put the ball over the crossbar, on which basis they were extremely successful.
