Tiredness kills England hopes - Sorensen
Stoke and Denmark keeper Thomas Sorensen feels England struggle in major tournaments due to the tiring English football season.
Sorensen, who has been given the nod to line up for the Dane's in Wednesday evening's friendly international against Fabio Capello's Three Lions in Copenhagen, is a keen observer of the national team given that he has spent a vast amount of his career playing in England.
And, while England regularly qualify for the big tournaments such as the European Championships and World Cup, Sorensen feels the players struggle to live up to expectations because of fatigue.
"England have always had really good players - absolutely world class," said Sorensen.
"As a team, you look at them player by player and they are only behind Spain and Brazil, and England belong to a group of eight to 10 countries capable of winning the World Cup next time.
"England always go through easily in the qualifying stages but maybe the players are tired when they get to the World Cup and European Championships in the summer after the long and very hard English season.
"They just never seem to deliver what people - and themselves - expect."
"I always follow England. I've lived there a long time, for 13 years, watch them on TV, follow them and wish them the best - England has become a bit of a second country," he added.
"It's always difficult to analyse from the outside, I wasn't close to it but there's been a lot of talk about the long English season and maybe a few players were burnt out a bit."
