England.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

You need to get into the right mindset to really appreciate how positive it all is. Try injecting morphine and inhaling laughing gas, that's what worked for me.

Morphine is quite special.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I think the positivity is meant to come from our youth getting experience and probably actually being our best players. You know, Sterling and er.... Barkley I guess. But we've never had a handful of good players come through at around the same time. Maybe we could give them some sort of snappy name. Golden Cohort.

But as many predicted before the tournament, you can pick anyone you like, if you're going to play shit football and accommodate shit footballers then you're going out. What makes it worse for me is that this time I genuinely believed we had the chance to play in an exciting and attacking way and we still played like shit. At least in 2010 we knew what was coming.

I guess all those players who "didn't have the baggage of England failure" have some hand luggage to haul back with them now as well.

There is little to no chance of Woy getting England to play in a way that is going to be moderately successful and no way is he going to be dropping Wazza.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I suppose because the squad is younger they've been afforded more leeway. But yeah the "positives" are minimal at best.

We sucked the big one. The end.

Pretty much.

[Heisenberg]

Rooney is Shearer's pick for next England captain

[Niall_Quinn]

Rooney is Shearer's pick for next England captain

Sums it up. The old boys network, the hype, the myths, the money machine. football doesn't really enter into these things any more.