Over-confidence mixed with thinking before one speaks.
Greg Dyke is a man bursting with opinions – you never know when he might blow.
The former Director General at the BBC has been the FA chairman since 2013 and has courted controversy since his arrival into the high-profile role.
In his latest chat with the media, Dyke has done what so many Englishmen have been guilty of in the past – set high standards before a major tournament.
Dyke claims that if England do not make it past the group stages in this summer’s Euro 2016 ‘we’ll all shoot ourselves’.
The FA chief may be forced to explain the crass severity of that remark.
He added, “We’ve got to get out of that group. If we don’t, that really is bad news for English football.”
As we will be reminded all year, it is 50 years since England last won the World Cup. It has been a fallow five decades ever since.
Dyke commented, “We owe it to a generation of teenage dreamers to show we can do it again.
“The FA is the richest FA in the world, the most income. The FA has to take some of the blame.
“We should have won a tournament in the last 50 years. We haven’t. But we will win in the next 50 years, hopefully long before.”
