It was just like watching Brazil. That's if you consider Brazil to be an ill-prepared team struggling for identity and looking for a formula. Such complaints have been constantly levelled at England down the years but it was the five-times world champions who looked bereft and disorganised.

The concept of the friendly international is a troubled one in football. In rugby and cricket, the game's closest equivalents as world games, there are test matches between international teams. ...

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