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The new England shirt.
Has no vision. No talent. No faith in its own ability.
It’s not a conductor in a pair of shorts.
operating in claustrophobic spaces
conjuring up counter-attacks
running shows,
dispatching pin-point passes and clattering 6ft strikers
It’s a shirt
It won’t defend by keeping the ball
Can’t burst into boxes, into tackles, into the minds of the opposition
It can’t stand up and be counted.
And it won’t lift a nation just by being on the pitch.
It’s a shirt
It’s what you do in it that matters