Okay I take back whatever I said about James Collins single handedly throwing our chances away, it turns out we're just trout in general. How Gary Speed god rest his soul managed to perform miracles with the same bunch of players is something we'll never know.

On England:

It still riles me how their selection policy is still 'Look for English players in the top six teams then call them up regardless of ability'. Out of the 22 selected, a mere four (I'm discounting the frankly baffling inclusion of Jack Butland) of them weren't from Manchester, Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs or Liverpool. What the smurf is Raheem Sterling doing in the side? He's made a grand total of five senior football appearances in his career (so far). Phil Jones and Tom Cleverley didn't get a look in for England until they moved to Manchester (or in Cleverley's case, he was Wigan's best player while he was on a season-long loan there before the 10/11 season, but the England selectors didn't give a trout).

I'm willing to put money on Adam Johnson rarely getting a look in for England now that he's moved to Sunderland. On the topic of Sunderland, you just know that if Frazier Campbell was still at Man Utd he'd be a shoo-in for a place in the first team. smurf.

I know, I'm still pissed that people like Raheem smurfing Sterling get a spot in the squad over Nathan Dyer who is a far better player, plays in the same position, and has scored more goals than Sterling ever will (and he's only 24).