Far as I saw, before the match, all the blubbing was from the press, not the players.

Joe Cole was saying stuff like "The ball is still the same shape, it's still football, we've just got to get on with it."

However, I might have missed stuff, as I avoid lie the plague the chasm of banality that is pre-England game sports pages in newspapers.

Posted By: Arizona Bay, Oct 18, 11:19:44