Danish coach tells dire England 'good luck' at the World Cup

Grim display at Wembley from lacklustre England does not bode well for the summer

Steven Gerrard
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England 1 Denmark 0. There were 68,000 people at Wembley last night to watch England play Denmark in the Three Lions' final friendly before coach Roy Hodgson selects his squad for the World Cup. This morning they must be wondering why they bothered.

They could have gone down the pub or stayed in and watched England's cricketers win something for once as they beat the West Indies. Surely, anything would have been more interesting than 90 mind-numbing minutes of third rate football featuring 22 players whose minds were elsewhere.

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Bill Mann is a football correspondent for The Week.co.uk, scouring the world's football press daily for the popular Transfer Talk column.