I just find the combination of treating an early pre-season friendly as the basis for serious judgements of players who aren't even fit, coupled with an obsession with not just kicking a player when he's down but also gleefully piling in and kicking him into non-existence, every damned day, a tad irksome. Especially when it compares with all of this 'we must see the good in every England player because it's the law' attitude this summer.