Despite failing to even qualify for Euro 2008 with practically the same team, the press and the nation still bigged us up as potential winners, even though we've been dicked on when we've played Spain and Brazil recently.
Now, all the absolute knobs saying "sack capello" "retire rooney" and other shit like that because we got knocked out by a better side.
The disgraceful game was the Algeria one. Not this one. Nobody with any sense really thought we were going to do much more than the quarter finals - problem is we ended up playing a quality side a round too early.
Obviously Rooney's been the biggest disappointment, because he's not even looked like scoring after being our main man in the qualifiers. He's been crap, yes.
Another major disappointment though - Aaron Lennon. It's all very well saying Rooney's shit, but half his goals have been headers this season. Lennon and SWP's crossing in the first two games was gash. I think Rooney's had one shot in the area all tournament, and part of that is down to our midfield being as creative as one of the H block goons at Withdean.
Knocks= excusesPS Rooney I believe is still carrying an injury, he never tracked back or went in with the 50/50 tackle, that is not Rooney!
he aint been the same since Bayern