So it's not coming home then, just as the rest of the world suspected.
As for all this "it's just the start of something big", is it fvck! They'll never have a better chance, they've played 2 decent teams and lost, and that could stretch to 3 defeats after Saturday. They've done nothing out of the ordinary except fluke the spawniest run of games any team's ever had in a World Cup.
Roy Keane made a brilliant job of pointing all this out to the deluded fools on the ITV panel tonight. Not a fan of him really but fair play to him for telling it like it is.