Oh Amelia, you aren't the only person who views your national team with derision. England had vastly more talent on the field and off it than the current Scots, but it didn't show ......
Kane gets seven out of ten every game from the papers, but every aspect of his game was dire despite coming up against centre backs below Premiership standard, Livermore isn't an international, Dier unusually was very poor again, Rashford didn't shine and England actually missed Sterling. I like Joe Hart but he ranks below ALL the preceding players.
Leigh Griffiths played well (very) but his two free kicks got a bit of bend without being vicious and Joe didn't get within 18 inches of either. Compare those kicks to the forty-yarder Lucena hit for Venezuela U-20 ...... not in the same league IMO!
As an ex-keeper I've always been of the opinion that if the defence didn't put a wall there the opposition would do it as an attacking move. But then Scotland obligingly agreed to play rush-goalies. I cannot believe there isn't a better keeper in even Scottish Divisions One and Two than Craig Gordon. He barely caught a ball. He's 6'4" and was 2'7" for Oxlade-Chamberlain's goal and the cross he allowed Kane to score from ????? - well I'm 65 next week and I could guarantee to catch it! It was piss-easy, slow and to the back post and the keeper's starting position should have made it simple.
It was a dreadful game enlivened only by goalkeeping that would have cheered up the poor guy who once let in nine for Scotland. As the only department in which Scotland currently seem strong is goalscorers I can't see why they don't play two of them instead of running one to exhaustion. And the English game is measured by the fact we're celebrating beating Venezuela with players who'll almost all, together with the Toulon winning team, be either benched, or loaned out next season and are scheduled in five years time to become part of an enquiry into why yet another golden generation barely left the test-tube.
Kane gets seven out of ten every game from the papers, but every aspect of his game was dire despite coming up against centre backs below Premiership standard, Livermore isn't an international, Dier unusually was very poor again, Rashford didn't shine and England actually missed Sterling. I like Joe Hart but he ranks below ALL the preceding players.
Leigh Griffiths played well (very) but his two free kicks got a bit of bend without being vicious and Joe didn't get within 18 inches of either. Compare those kicks to the forty-yarder Lucena hit for Venezuela U-20 ...... not in the same league IMO!
As an ex-keeper I've always been of the opinion that if the defence didn't put a wall there the opposition would do it as an attacking move. But then Scotland obligingly agreed to play rush-goalies. I cannot believe there isn't a better keeper in even Scottish Divisions One and Two than Craig Gordon. He barely caught a ball. He's 6'4" and was 2'7" for Oxlade-Chamberlain's goal and the cross he allowed Kane to score from ????? - well I'm 65 next week and I could guarantee to catch it! It was piss-easy, slow and to the back post and the keeper's starting position should have made it simple.
It was a dreadful game enlivened only by goalkeeping that would have cheered up the poor guy who once let in nine for Scotland. As the only department in which Scotland currently seem strong is goalscorers I can't see why they don't play two of them instead of running one to exhaustion. And the English game is measured by the fact we're celebrating beating Venezuela with players who'll almost all, together with the Toulon winning team, be either benched, or loaned out next season and are scheduled in five years time to become part of an enquiry into why yet another golden generation barely left the test-tube.