Carlos Tevez scored two goals a 3-1 win over Mexico.
His old teammate Wayne Rooney had another stinker as Engerland were thrashed 4-1 by the new Germany.
England were pitiful.
I feared meltdown and that’s what we saw.
Clueless attempts to attack and the worst defending ever by an England team.
Yes , we are journeymen. We are one-dimensional.
But we were competent until two weeks ago.
Capello took a planeload of crocks to South Africa. He tried to take even more crocks when he asked Man United for Scholes and Hargreaves. Today was the first time he’s played the same team twice in 28 games. For Slovenia and Germany, he picked the same eleven. Never before in 28 games.
The good teams in this World Cup play 4-2-3-1. That is what superyob John Terry was asking for. The mutiny failed but the mutineers were right.
One of the greatest coaches in football history made a pig’s breakfast of England’s World Cup, after qualifying perfectly and beating a good Croatia side who would not be out of place in the World Cup quarter-final that England failed to reach.
Roy Hodgson will be more suitable.
He has managed Switzerland and Finland and will do well with England. We lack talent but we don’t have to be a shambles, as we were in Bloemfontein.
Liverpool are now looking at Dechamps and others.
Lots more could be said but the hour is getting late. Well, not late. It’s 11.44 on Sunday night.
SEE ALSO :
June 13 4 big Capello calls. He got 3 wrong
June 18 England stuttered for 52 minutes, then I walked out of the room
June 20 Capello’s last 4 days as England coach? Let’s wait and see