So it’s 30 minutes into the England – Slovakia game. England are now 0:1 down and playing like a bunch of <expletive deleted>. Why? They’re all top players, capable of holding their place in top European sides, but when together they play terribly.

What do we do – blame the manager? No, I don’t think so. Whatever system he plays, the players, who are some of the best, should be able to make it work. The obvious answer is the players simply don’t want to win. Why? Search me, but I’ve had enough. Wast of time watching them play like a 3rd division tesm, so I’m off to do something more useful.

My suggestion for the second half is to bring on the wives and girlfriends to form a scratch team. I’m sure they’d do better!

Update at end of normal time:

England equalise in the 95th minute. Good goal by Bellingham (overhead kick). So maybe the WAGS won’t be needed.

I did, in fact, put this question to my son Alfie: “What do you call a team whose wives and girlfriends could make a better scratch team?

His answer was, “OK, I’ll do it then! F.C.”, which I thought was quite witty!

Update 2nd minute of extra time:

England score! Harry Kane finally turns up and scores!

Good, but TBH, they’re not actually playing very well. Germany or other top side would eat them for breakfassemi-finalt!

Full Time;

England win, but on this performance Switzerland will roll them over in the next round, no problem!

Update – quarter-final.

Well funnily enough, Switzerland didn’t and England won on penalties. But really, they’re not looking all that impressive.

Further update: semi-final with the Netherlands.

Well, we scraped through again! This time 2:1. Maybe……. nah, not possible!

Final vs. Spain.

Nope – we met a good side and it all fell apart.

Oh well, at least I can still remember the 1966 world cup!