After the East Berlin uprising of 1953, Bertolt Brecht wrote his poem "The Solution," in which he made the suggestion that the government should dissolve the people and elect another.
Successive England managers must, less ironically, feel something similar. The public and its reaction to the national team—and the media are implicated in this, simultaneously shaping and being shaped by the public's mood—are largely ridiculous.
England did not play particularly well in Trnava, Slovakia, on Sunday. The game was boring. That seemed to make people angry. But what did they expect? Had they not watched Slovakia at Euro 2016?