What gets me is how a coach with so much choice of players can’t get a winning team. England again come up short.
Spain very deserving winners and the best team in the tournament overall. I actually didn't think that England played that badly but just came up against a better team. This is where I get annoyed at the media and so many clueless pundits and fans because the narrative will undoubtedly once again be overwhelmingly about how England "lost" the final as opposed to giving Spain to large amounts of credit they deserve for winning it. I've said it so many times before, England have some very good and excellent players BUT very few are genuinely the "World Class" individuals the English media make them out to be. They look better at club level because they are surrounded by other equally as good if not better players. Sadly too many fans suck up the hype generated. So few of their players are capable of playing the way the pundits think they should (ie. like Spain) as they panic and lose their calm in tight situations, giving the ball away to easily. Take Foden as an example, at Man City he looks great, but then he has the likes of Rodri, Barnardo Silva and De Bryne around him . Rice is a very good player but Rodri is better. Saka is good but De Bryne has undoubtedly been better (he's getting on a bit now, a bit like Kane). Bellingham for all the hype has been poor overall. He's exceptionally talented but is still finding his feet at an international level. Even if you were to agree with the media that England had the strongest squad (personally I don't) it doesn't necessarily equal success - just look at Belgium and until the last world cup, Messi with Argentina. It could yet still be another tournament or two before the English break their 'curse' and they may never do it.... Anyhow, time for this thread to close now isn't it????
