There can be no greater thing than to play for your country and represent the hopes of your fans and your fellow countrymen.
Where it falls down is our side is full of overpaid prima donnas . I love the bit about trying to get out of playing in some games. Drop them from the squad.
I don't buy Reknapps comments one bit.
We’ve got good players, players who are good week-in, week-out in the Premier League. You look at half the other teams in the tournament and there are loads of players who come to the Premier League and couldn’t get a game ... You know we’ve got better players than them but for some reason with good manager after good manager, we just don’t get results." What is it, 48 years since we won a major tournament? Hodgson is getting something like £3.5 million.
My take? England isn't hungry for success. We just take part and don't expect to do well.