That Goal

Okay, the goalie messed up. That is not why England failed to win. They should have scored two more goals to make up for the mishap. Blaming their unconvincing result on Green is misleading. England had the strikers there to score and they did not. The Americans played well and showed themselves well disciplined and good sportsmen.

The issue for England is this. We have to get away from this notion that everything hangs by a thread. It should not matter if somebody makes a mistake or another is injured or whatever. We are not there for tactics or strategy or to play beautiful football. We are there to win and that is why and only why we play. We will, with perhaps the best strikers in the world in the team, go on scoring as many goals as it takes to achieve that objective.

If it comes to a penalty shoot out do not even think about missing. If that skill has not been practiced to utter perfection and beyond everyone in the team should send three months pay to charity. They can all afford it.