I think I have finally recovered enough to reflect briefly on the embarrassment that was the England performance in the World Cup against Germany.

It was a truly shocking performance – especially defensively and yet again Rooney, Gerrard and Lampard especially underperformed, but the team generally didn’t look capable and frankly despite their reputations individually, they just weren’t good enough.

If by some incredible miscalculation on the part of the FA – they approach me for the job, I would start from scratch and everything would be dictated by the next world cup, so that means I wouldn’t pick anyone over 27 now – develop a stable young team – team being the key word, not being scared to leave out “stars” if they don’t fit in the team – and take it from there.

I bought an England shirt in 2006, wore it once and this time dug it out and wore it twice. I can’t see myself ever wearing it again. An utterly disgraceful perfomance.