Originally Posted by Bosox:
“People won't want to hear this, because we're in full on self flagellation mode, but England have actually played better than Belgium at this World Cup yet thanks to a more difficult group and a certain amount of bad luck we are out with 0 points and they are through with 6.
Which is not to say that there aren't real problems with our game or that Belgium can't get a lot better.”
This is true, be we can't really complain about it.
We had (as we always do) an easy qualifying group in which to get to a major championship.
This is probably part of the problem, as we rarely get tested on qualifying & when we get to tournaments, we're ill prepared.