Steve McClaren

But there seemed to be, there was always a frenzy, even with Sven, always a frenzy with myself.

And there's always a, I remember Gareth, and we talked about the initial, there was always a frenzy behind that.

So there's always going to be that.

And players have to deal with it.

And players have to, you know, they're England players.

They've got to take that pressure on.

and deliver as they do.

And a lot, you know, I've done a national team in Jamaica.

We're the same.

We used to come to Jamaica and, would you play for Jamaica like you play for your club?

You know, and I used to say, will you play for England like you play for your club?

With that relaxed.

And I've spoken to several England players

since then and some say well within the camp there was you know chelsea man united liverpool and there was yeah fraction factions of of discontent there never was there never was right we just couldn't we couldn't find the balance and people have asked me well we've got the world cup coming up

You know, from my experience of three tournaments, you know, the three key things is you need energy.

And that was always a problem.

We had three tournaments.

The players came, end of a hard season, the Premier League, Champions League, the top players were always in that fatigue.

We didn't know whether to go on holiday and give them a breather or to give them an extra boost of fitness to get them ready for the tournament.

So fatigue was...