Great expectations

DAVID GREEN hopes that the penny has finally dropped with England supporters

The England national football team is one that deals in extremes — play a perfect away game for three points in hostile territory and suddenly they’re the World Cup favourites, scrape a narrow win at home against ‘inferior’ opposition three days later and they’re a disgrace to English football.
You only have to look back to September’s double-header against Bulgaria and Wales to see how fast circumstance turns and opinion swings full circle. With England, there is no middle ...

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