The mentality, through many tournament blowouts, is to find sound bites and put them in the mouths of dejected players. Take the flak and run. This is not explaining, or trying to make amends; it is synthetic PR damage limitation, dreamt up by an organisation that closed its final training session, even though the team were already out, and staged press conferences while Spain were playing Holland and Germany were facing Portugal, as if no one in the England camp could possibly want to watch those big games.