Some Swede: ‘Frank’s Fat and You’re Not So Hot’

Anders Svensson, who once dazzled us all at Southhampton, is the first to bare his claws for today’s tilt in Cologne:

On Frank Lampard: “He is not really like a rocket, is he?…If you pressurise him and disturb his play like Paraguay did then he struggles.”

Then he reckons that England will lie down: “The English game depends on their aggression and the attitude in their hearts. But they are already through so their way of playing will disappear.”

There are other comments from people less willing to rile elsewhere in the article.