Jacob Steinberg was at Wembley tonight. Here’s his verdict. Thanks for reading this MBM. Nighty night / Good morning (delete according to which team you’ve been following).
A gravelly throated Australia coach Graham Arnold speaks, just about, to 4seven. “Sorry about my voice, I’ve been trying to out-yell 65,000! … I thought we did well … once again, we didn’t take our chances … when you play against a team at that level you have to take your chances … overall I was very happy with the boys … we miss Harry Kewell! [puts arm around Channel 4 pundit] … we don’t have the quality of players other teams have, so we try to be in the faces of the opposition and take away their strength … England have a fantastic team … since the World Cup I wanted to play difficult games … we played Argentina as good as [tonight] … we played Mexico in Dallas and drew 2-2, were up 2-0, should have won that … so it’s the small details … we’ve got a great cohesion and a great culture … it’ll come, it’ll come!”
