Originally Posted by
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There is something deeply wrong with England in major tournaments and it is not just in Football, this has happened in the last Cricket world cup and the last Rugby world cup that we have seen.
If you ask me those players last night looked scared, scared to try anything incase it led to blame for failure.
If you look at the England cricket side at the last world cup the message was similar, however after that failure it has turned to being more successful and has rebuilt, there is talk in the cricket that the attitude changed and expression was encouraged, and that mistakes when trying to make things happen where not followed by a row in the dressing room.
If you look at a player like Harry Kane, he's a great player at spurs and the type of young player that England should be looking to build their side around for years, however this tournament he has gone from a must pick, to a liability in 4 games, that's to much, that players development has taken a hit, that may never recover.
If you compare that to Wales, in some ways we have to throw our youngsters in, but we have more of an environment where the mistakes are not the end of the world and the success is celebrated in the extreme.
England will never produce a Gareth Bale, they will never have a player that will get to his caps at the age that he is. If Gareth Bale was English they would have never brought him out of the left back position, he would have been dropped early in his career and never allowed to develop the experience at the national stage.
There are talented English football players, they certainly have more depth than a lot of teams in this tournament, however they play with a paralysis of what will happen to them when they fail.