Apparently it was too hard for the team to keep running around and pressing for the last 20 minutes of a 90 minute football game. Including Gordon, who is 25 years old. Let's take off the only player that can be arsed running around for his 1.2 million a month pay.
England should bribe Argentina with the transfer of ownership of the Falkland Islands and bribe Spain with the transfer of ownership of Gibraltar to throw their matches against England. Shine Box FIFA will approve both moves, since they love and were founded on bribes.
He can keep it as a funny story, add “... in my dreams” underneath, change the year to a future one, or turn it into something totally different with a good cover-up. A talented tattoo artist can turn that “premature confidence” into a legendary conversation piece.
The Britts have been doing this thing since 1970 at every world cup they have qualified for and have never made it to the finals since 1966, so here is just another hopeful who did not care about the history of the team and just went for it. Poor guy!