LONDON (Reuters) - It was meant to be an opportunity to let England's young lions roam free to demonstrate how they may just be equipped to inject fear into the two best teams in world football.
Instead, the build-up to the glamour friendlies against Germany and Brazil at Wembley has been accompanied in the English media by mutterings of "farce" and "embarrassment" amid the plethora of withdrawals from Gareth Southgate's squad.
