"There'll be a period of reflection. That will have started last night.

"The manager will have taken the team aside at the end of the match and had a private conversation with the group as a whole and with players individually.

"He'll have started to work on what's required, which is a set of mental skills. The players are physically and technically able so it's the mental skills that become important now, in enabling them to release this game and let it go, to thought-stop any negative aspects of recollection of the game.

"Thought-stopping is a technique. You say 'park that, let it go. What's the positive we can take from the game?'"


Yes, because none of them would have ever lost a football match before

#fraud