England won because they had better boots...
Kazakhstan [ Oh never mind the z]coach Bernd Storck said that the 5-1 defeat to England was mainly because the English team had better football boots. He said the problems were due to the scarcity of studs in Kazakhstan. Some of his players were wearing boots for the first time after buying them in England - hardly ideal for a match against a team with a perfect record in the teams' World Cup qualifying group.
"You cannot find studs in Kazakhstan," Storck said. "If you lose studs, you must buy new ones. We were buying new studs here only yesterday."