I know practically zero about football but here's my take.....
A few months back Rooney was injured and didn't play in 'friendlies' , England won games against some good teams, they played as a team. Rooney comes back and the team gets very lack lustre and don't in my opinion play as a team, they are more like a group of individuals going out to have a Sunday kickabout. Hodgson should of just picked the Leicester team as they would have been proud to represent their country (ok if there are foreign players in that team they would have to be replaced....I understand that

) and the money they would have been paid would have been an added bonus.
As for the politics, I don't discuss that brings about too many arguments but IMO it will all come out in the wash, at least the people of this country have made a decision and the politicians really, again IMO, didn't influence them one way or the other. Most people, I expect, voted for what they wanted,
That's it footie and politics covered as for SAD and JiM, still could be one big media job by both their management companies.