If murray wins the aussie open and england win the cricket world cup....do you think our England football team?

Lack of self belief. England has a real pessimism culture, where we expect the worst, and the. Get very stroppy when we get it.

This filters down to he players, and they subconsciously believe that no matter how good they are, something will go wrong: a key player will get injured, the referee will have a bad game, we will have a goal disallowed, we will lose at penalties, and so on. After a while of this kind of this mental training (whipped up by the media) it starts to affect the players, and they play with fear, rather than gay abandon. Look at Greece winning Euro 2004 when nobody expected them to and when there was no pressure on them.

Pretty easy wasn't it? At the same time, the media simultaneously whip up the players to unexpected heights, so there is a contradiction: the media expects, maybe artificially, the fans don't really expect, and he players know that they have hoe to live up to, but may not rally believe that they can achieve. They then know in he backs of their minds, that if they don't live up to false expectations, then there will be a lot of angry, narrow-minded people and hash media headlines to deal with when hey get home.

There will be a lot of criticism from pundits and experts, and a lot of little Englanders calling them passionless, over paid prima donnas, and nobody wants to have this experience. How do England win? It's not a case if us lacking the players, nor is t a case f them not caring and Danny too much money ( the likes of Spain and Germany earn just as much) it is a case of them building their own special mentality.

WHATEVER HAPPENS, WE STILL WIN. It doesn't matter if a player gets injured, or it goes to penalties, or they go a goal down, the team still wins somehow. This is how the 2003 rugby team operated, and they won the.

World cup n the back yard of their greatest rivals. It is also the reason why Germany have been so successful at international level - they believe in he selves and have the bloody minded mental strength required.

The team with Gazza should have won a Euro or WC but thanks to some criminal management, we didn't and in the early 2000s, there was Shearer. Why we never won recently beats me. Probably the occasion gets to the players We've never built a dominant one day side in Cricket.

We currently hold the Test Championship and beat Australia in Australia. That is better than a fixed World Cup 'victory' (India's in 2011, Sri Lanka's in 1996).

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.