England Expects (Too much)

Engerlaaand are out of the world cup. Their worst performance ever. We have run out of excuses and the media seem neither shocked nor vitriolic. No turnip head brolley wally abuse for Roy. But will we ever learn to succeed in these tournaments ? The success of the premiership gives us false hope we have a squad used to playing against the best in the world but those players never seem to gel well enough to properly compete.

England play perhaps due to fear and anxiety with a combination of sterility, hestitancy and exhaustion. The mental stress due to the expected success must be enormous. They would never have the mental freedom to play the way Costa Rica have.
The burden of 40 million people and blanket media attention makes the stress debilitating. Also they over reach. Perhaps a greater respect for opposing teams and play with a spoiler game plan like Costa Rica and Chelsea do. England are full of good individuals but maybe this knowledge raises the ambition. Instead focus more on not losing and temper the ambition. Nil nil or 1-1 are good results in world cup group stages and later stages if you are good at penalties The hyper sterility of Capellos team has been replaced with a better attacking verve and England were only two missed chances away from qualifying. Suggesting England should play like Liverpool might not be the best advice. A leaky defence and midfield lost Liverpool the premiership. Without a Uruguayan's goals and a Brazilian's creativity they would have been mid table.

Had England man marked Suarez and Pirlo and played 4-5-1 with 5 defensive midfielders and no attacking full backs they could at least  unleash the flair team in the last must win game. This meant England fans might have lived the world cup win delusion for at least 4 more days. Even Allys army in 1978 had a chance to go through in the last game.

England failed through tactical naivety and this is the managers fault and he should resign. Managers should be judged on the what would Mourinho have done, its far easier to copy a managers thought process than a players skill and he would have worked out a way to win this group.