Gutted: a failure of management, not of bottle...
- 1 Jul 06, 07:05 PM
There is a serious moral to England's defeat that makes it no less bitter: the whole campaign was marked by failures of management.
Sven picked too few strikers: incontrovertible. He never found a workable formation - never mind that: there was no philosopy, let alone style - other than the one they found after the 62nd minute, which is the default style Sven encouraged: Italian football circa 1990. He transmitted hesitancy to the entire team, and you could feel that right to the end - I have a hunch that Sven ordered them to put all penalties on the floor, so as not to risk being off target: I saw him for the first time ordering them to do something before the penalties and I bet that is what comes out.
Click here to watch my Newsnight report on Sven
But these were just tactical failures of management. Sven's failure on the bigger picture was threefold...
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