England expects.....too much

The sad demise of England's football team to Germany was ill-fated but hardly surprising. Germany played their game in their usual industrious, no-nonsense manner, whilst England and the English still cling to their delusions of nostalgia for 1966 and their pretensions to be the chosen World Cup winners.

Such a mania has to lessen, but has become so endemic within the culture and now even the economy of this country, that I fear it will be a long time before the English get off their high horses (and let's try not to forget the Scots, the Welsh and especially the Irish who failed to qualify) especially if the 2018 World Cup bid is successful.

When they all realise that it is a sport - no more, no less - then England will have a far better chance of winning if we start behaving like true Brits with a little more humility and sporting spirit, rather than so much bulldog patriotism.

Such nationalistic zeal is, to put it frankly, not very British.

This article sums it up pretty well too.