DRESSING ROOM AFTERWARDS WAS HORRIBLE

ICELAND will stay with me. I know it is easy to say you have to learn from those experiences and use them to motivate you so that it doesn’t happen again, but I think it will always stay with the players who were there. It was a very bad day for everyone involved. That is probably one of the worst places I have been in my career. Even though I didn’t play, I felt very much part of the team. We were all in it together and I really believed in us as a team. As it was, we let everyone down badly — the country, the fans, the manager.

The dressing room afterwards was horrible. Really horrible. People were emotional. I think the manager was emotional with the talk that he gave afterwards. It wasn’t nice to see. Everyone is human. Sometimes people think we are machines and they can just chuck everything at whoever the manager is and criticise. At the end of the day, I can tell you we do care. But I can understand why the fans were mad. They had every right to criticise us.