Football

to the casual observer last night after a period of playing with flourish we seemed to settle into type - Sterling for the last twenty minutes kept on getting boxed in on the right hand side.............but they kept on with that?

Also with 8-10 mins left to play, England seemed content to just keep passing across the pitch like they had another 30 mins left........woeful

I'm hoping that was because of the conditions. Whoever held the lead in the second half was carrying all the trump cards. Italy are the masters of sitting back and letting the other team do the work. It's hard to unlock a ten man defence. Maybe it was time to launch a few balls into the box.