Megson not gettting carried away

10 September 2009 13:35
Capello's men thrashed Croatia 5-1 at Wembley on Wednesday night to book their place in South Africa, having won all eight for their qualifiers. With that success comes great expectation, which Megson believes needs to be managed ahead of the start of the tournament next year. The Trotters manager said: "I always think we are going to win the World Cup - we have great players, great staff; we have everything going for us in that we have that momentum," said Megson. "The thing that may cause us problems is talk of us winning it rather than going there and doing our level best. "I think if we go there and do our best we are well capable of winning it - but it is not for a long time yet. "Fabio Capello will have to cope with a little bit of Englishness he has not seen before - in that when we get high we go too high, and when we go low it is the opposite. "We have to accept we have good players, a good team and we have that capability. "The expectation was that we would qualify, so we have lived up to that expectation." It is merely a case of so far so good, Megson advises. "We have done it in style; it has been terrific, and everyone deserves great credit," he added. "But it now needs putting on the shelf for a little bit and start talking about what we can do in terms of the World Cup when it comes around - because there are a lot of things that can go wrong between now and then. "You may lose players through injury, which could make us an entirely different squad."

Source: Team_Talk