AS probably expected, the World Cup dream is over. But it must be said that a lot of home truths are now starting to come out of the woodwork.

Face the facts! England are a million miles away from being a team like Germany or Holland. They play so boringly and predictably and are pampered like they have a god-given right.

We are a country that will continue to struggle to keep up with the best due to the fact that we are not producing homegrown talent. The Premier League is awash with unknown foreigners who come to Britain for a few years, play a few games without breaking sweat and then disappear back to outer Mongolia, Honduras or wherever.

Our home talent has no chance and in years to come you are going to have lower division players getting into the international set-up due to there being no English talent playing in the Premier League.

Some of the players need a reality check because they seem to think they are world-beaters when really they are only average run-of-the-mill players.

Euro 2012 is up next and unless some new home talent emerge I foresee another disappointment.

Lets just admit it we are not good enough.

M HIBBERT, Ivan Street, Burnley.