What is on my mind and I'm sure is on a lot of others is 'What went wrong'? What happened to England being an elite team in the world of football. I mean we invented the damn game so you would kind of expect a team with so much footballing history to be able to make it a little bit further than what we actually did.
However, I'm not as affected as I thought I would be, I've quickly accepted that my teams are out. I knew as soon as we drew with USA that there was no hope, I'm even surprised we made it to the knock out stages to be fair. But there was part of me holding fingers crossed on both hands and wishing for a miracle, but this was not to be the case.
Most know me as a very patriotic person, I swell with English pride, I will forever represent England. But what I witnessed in this years tournament was just pure sloppiness. I mean yesterday's game was abysmal. Where the hell was the defence?!?! No one can fault David James for letting in them goals, because for most of the game he was on his own.
What is going on? England why are we becoming the butt of other's jokes? Gone are the days of people bowing down to England in fear. We used to be a country with so much power and influence and now we are slowly, slowly becoming a joke.
We have footballers that are over paid and lavish in the world of celebrity. These footballers are more concerned with getting 6 figure deals, buying big homes, driving 3 or 4 fancy cars, getting beautiful women, partying hard and getting their faces on the cover of the biggest weekly glossy.
Not that I'm an expert or anything, but I believe if we are to qualify for the World Cup 2014 and go far; we need to get rid of the millionaire footballers that don't take tournament seriously and play with passion, because they ain't getting paid the big bucks they get from their own clubs and recruit the fresher talent that want to do it for the country and play with their heart and souls.
Maybe then we will experience the sheer bliss of 1966...
