The "football's coming home" thing is a catchy tune and probably the best football song ever, it stirs very deep feelings of pride, togetherness, and love for my country when I hear or sing it and makes me feel happy to be English. However, that doesn't take away from the reality on the pitch that I knew from the start we were riding our luck.WHU Independent wrote:
BUT when some of those WHU supporters ( and other teams supporters) support England they get swept up in all this "It's coming home" nonsense, believing we are nailed on to win the trophy, They become de facto international versions of Manure etc supporters believing England's gonna triumph. It's like they have a footballing brain transplant. I have a lot of non English mates and they saw this coming home thing as very arrogant indeed - we didn't win any friends with it.
Personally I think that maybe relying so much on Spurs players (who've proved to be "nearly men" and to regularly fall at the last hurdle) could have been a big factor in us folding at the end and I've been asking myself is this justified or just my WHU anti Spurs bias. Whatever the case until we have a strong holding midfielder who can clear things up at the back and play the ball forward (IMHO that's not Dier), a truly magical midfielder / winger (Sterling could be that player but Ali isn't) and a truly reliable striker like Shearer, Lineker (IMHO again Kane is a lucky striker but not yet the top striker we need) we've got to rely a lot on luck and will be inconsistent.