Worthy: "I am not a tosser"

"To toss it away when we're so close to something special was bitterly disappointing," Worthington said, before going down the questionable route of blaming the media - for being too kind. "The mind is a funny thing," he said. "When you hear people writing and saying so many nice things about you, you start thinking you don't have to work for a result. That is garbage, as we found out. We just weren't switched on from the first whistle.

"Will I have to lift the players for the Czech game?" he asked indignantly of the final group match, which, following Slovenia's win over Poland, has become almost meaningless unless San Marino can somehow defeat Slovenia while Worthington's team beat the Czech Republic in Prague. "Why can't they lift themselves? I've got to lift myself so they've got to do the same. We tossed it away. Not I, not me."

Posted By: Old Git, Sep 10, 13:27:58