Dieppe

Shiftless, unimaginatve, cosseted England got exactly what they deserved. And still Lampard goes on about how England "deserved" to win.

Message to England: You don't "deserve" anything. The fact that the game originates there and that the Premiership is a half-decent league does not give England the "right" to anything.

It certainly doesn't give England the right to throw away two decades of progress at learning to do things like "passing" and "keeing possession" the minute some 6'6" glandular freak shows up on the field and tempts you to go high and long on route one on the off chance the ball will go in off the freak's head.

And for Christ's sake - how does a country that has gone out of three of its last five tournaments on penalties not practice them sufficiently to avoid the kind of humiliating one-out-of-four performance they put in on Sunday?

The only good Englishman on the pitch was a Canadian. He worked hard, he showed people what England might have been like had Erikison had the cojones to break up the nauseating Lampard-Gerrard duo, and unlike the others he actually scored from the penalty squad. Typical England: leaving the dirty work in a losing battle to the colonials....