The bakers would have filled Wembley. With jam tarts, sponges and wickedly delicious chocolate cakes.
When the premier league is on the TV every week, the result is people not giving a **** about English football, the lower leagues and proper football supporters.
Fans are fickle. The second England win a few games and the media jump behind a new messiah (sounds like that'll be Raheem Sterling now that we've found out that Wilshere and Barkley aren't the savours of the national team) the fans will buy into the hype and start coming again.
Wayne Rooney’s stirring first speech as England captain went largely unnoticed by teammates who presumed the noise to be a mechanical drone. Rooney was attempting to motivate his colleagues ahead of England’s friendly against Norway, a game which nobody can remember organising but which nevertheless must be honoured. Having been entrusted with the honour of leading the team by Roy Hodgson, Rooney was keen to rally his troops but his Churchillian monologue didn’t have the desired effect on the other players, who weren’t aware that the Manchester United man was speaking. “I did hear a noise,” John Stones admitted. “It was kind of a repetitive humming sound and I could see it was irritating several of the lads. “We all just presumed it was the groundsman doing some last-minute preparations on the pitch, so we just carried on pulling on our kit and making lewd, artless remarks. “Every now and again it did sound like someone was saying something about loving your nation and I thought I heard someone mention ‘the greatest honour a footballer can have’, but I don’t see how that would have anything to do with playing for England anyway.” Rooney was named England captain six days ago after all the other names on Hodgson’s shortlist were found to be fictional or long dead. The former Everton man hailed the appointment as ‘the realisation of a dream’ and celebrated by realising his other childhood dream of eating nine consecutive dinners.
