It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

You called!

Being discussed on Talk Sport as we speak.

Sterling is of obvious slight build. He is not a big guy. For instance, he wouldn't be much good at what is generally considered to be a typically good 'centre half'.

Objectively therefore, he must lack comparative strength in certain areas and it would not be surprising for him to become fatigued. It all depends on what happens in a particular match and how much work he has had to do in it - and also, as to whether he was fully recovered from the efforts of his last match.

Or with his girlfriend the previous night!

As in 'throughout the previous night'.

Bollocks Exec, he is a professional footballer. He is paid to play for LFC.

Bollocks to you Carson. Don't be so offensive! :-)

You don't know what Sterling was doing the night before the match. Neither, if it was likely to have a negative impact, do you know how long he was doing it for either.

Did you read about it in a tabloid?

We are all entitled to pass an opinion without it being trashed by others and with obscenites. FFS!

Are you suggesting that :-

"She Offered Her Honour. He Honoured Her Offer. And All Night Long It Was Honour And Offer!"

:0) I'm sorry Exec, just saying it as it is! Playing for England is not the honour it once was fact! The players earn obscene amounts of money and thanks to Sky, Premiership clubs live and die by staying in it. Managers are judged by the performance of the team, ask David Moyes.

You would have thought that he would have been gagging to play for his country. Gareth Bale played in the second half for Wales with a niggling back injury and he worked his socks off.

I really can't understand why professional footballers complain about fatigue when you compare the demands on tennis player's levels of fitness.

Accepted, Chris.

Sterling's mindset might also be connected to his Liverpool responsibilities and their recent (ups and) downs.

Exec - Sad but true.

Could be the night when little Iceland surprise mighty Holland....

Good call rf and the captain of Iceland is a bluebird !

I got to agree with Chris re Sterling . does feck all but train to play football then can't manage 2 games in 3 days or put another way 2 games in 2 fecking weeks !

He shouldn't be anywhere near the England squad if it's true but I'm not so sure it is.

And who would believe it Wales top of their group and we've only really got two players (Bale and Ramsey) and Ramsey is out injured.

We'll still cock it up though.

I've watched Wales a lot Dil, mostly because I'm a Bale fan and I don't think you will cock it up. It was a great team effort last night especially in the second half when they were down to 10 men and you could see how much it meant to the team when the final whistle went.

Scotland have a tough job tonight.

Fantastic results from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, England and the Irish Republic....hats off to them all !!!...really BRAVO !!!.....what a fantastic start to the European Championship qualifiers by these sides.....incredible.....(have to say I had a crazy odds bet on the Irish getting a result against Germany).....and the England under 21's have qualified....fantastic all round.....(not often I congratulate like this but it is deserved !)....

I'm not sure just how we managed to scrape a draw tonight, but well done lads!

Yes, great results. Good goal by Naismith, delighted he wasn't tired can't stop scoring.

Taken from another bulletin board;

"My missus pays no attention to the news at all.

When I told her that ebola was on a plane going to Spain she said 'I suppose that's another one gone from Arsenal to Barcelona is it?'"