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Roger Hunt wrote:No question that Gerrard has had a poor tournament. Hope he retires from internationals, fed up with him coming back injured
Increasingly we all seem to want to blame England's failures on a lack of willpower by the players. IMHO this is bollocks. We are increasingly shown up at top level by our technical shortcomings, specifically ball retention and passing. The answer to that is with the FAs shit development policy. They should take a leaf out of the Belgian's book.
We have technical shortcomings, but that isn't the only problem. Plenty of worse teams than England(on paper) are putting in performances, even Iran were strong against Argentina and were only beaten by a long range shot and the referee. We're always hearing about players being "big game players", the world cup is the ultimate test of that, but when was the last time an England team raised it's game at a tournament?
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