All I have heard since Saturday, and it's piling on today pundit after pundit ... the talking point is: "We were the better team, we should have won". Blah, Blah, Blah, bollox.
At no time in that match were England ahead. The best they can possibly claim is that they were equal for periods of the game. France scored two open play goals. England had to rely on French defenders committing fouls for a chance to score: one they took, one they didn't. England had to bust a gut to nullify the French forwards, which they did for the most part but for two moments of excellent football where France scored.
I can't help but find similarity between England and Martin's Madness at the Liberty .... how many times over the demise of the last series of matches and long stretches of last season have we heard this same lament: "We were the better team. We deserved better. We should have won". Again bollox. For too many matches this season and last the score, the result, informs that this is not true. It's not a one off. It's not an isolated instance of shit luck. It's a persistent series of performances and outcomes. For all the "beauty" of being the "better team", when we get the ball into the final third we're like an old man with a limp dick. We fail to penetrate, we fail to score. It doesn't get any more complicated than that.
Results don't lie. We're not the better team. We don't deserve to win. We get what we deserve. Swans, England, English pundits and English managers. Our weakest managers have been English.