What an adject, dismal and disappointing display by England. Once again Hodgson set the side up to defend in a static 4,4,2 formation and continued to select both Young (who's form has disappeared) and Milner (who does not have the pace or guile to operate in a forward right midfield role).
I said earlier on in this thread that Capello would have been slaughtered in the press for adopting this formation and tactics - yet from looking at the BBC website the opinion seems to be that the side over-performed against expectations and that the manager is to be congratulated in getting to the quarter finals!!!
I watched the whole match and noticed that whenever the camera showed Hodgson, he appeared to be bemused by what was going on - no animation, no arm waving and shouting instructions - nothing. England ended up punting long balls into the centre forward area - the same tactics that have failed in every other competition of recent memory.
On a slightly separate issue - did anyone else pick up on the fact that in the Spain/France match there were a reported 2,000 Spanish and 800 French supporters? Imagine the demand for tickets were England able to field a side like Spain.