He may also hear negatives from players involved in the set up, or have an axe to grind over Eddie being utterly devoid of class as a bloke and his teams frequently failing to show the values to which we would all want. He certainly seems excessively confident that we will bomb.
There is quite a calm and measured discussion on the DW site about England et al at the WC, under the training announcement thread, I am not sure anyone is up for making such certain predictions there, which says something and puts these comments in perspective....