Tbh the only country that I thought had a better squad than us was Brazil. Though I agree, atleast some of the criticism is very much with 20/20 hindsight.
The idea of playing a formation other than 4-4-2 would have been ridiculed.
you see former players saying we should have done this, we should have done that, a lot of their suggestions are ideas that have come in to prominence in latter years.
He’s a good bloke though and you can tell he was as proud as any Englishman to have represented us.