So is England going out of the World Cup to Germany a national disgrace or just a consequence of years of endemic problems in the game in this country?
Or could it all be blamed on inept referees and linesmen and the absence of goal line technology? The debates seem familiar and tired, and the results all entirely predictable, and surely the country's best hope of winning a World Cup again lies in being able to host the tournament in 2018. But as South Africa and South Korea, and even Germany have proved, being the host nation doesn't guarantee you are going to become world champions. This time around there appears to be a multitude of reasons why England failed: The Premiership season is clearly too long. In no other major Europe...
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