Alan Shearer insisted that England criticism 'is not personal'.Source: BBC
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00:00I'm alright with that, that's probably the siege mentality which you need in your team.
00:06We've all been there.
00:08We've all been there, we've all had criticism, I mean I got criticised, I hadn't scored for two years almost for England, 13 or 14 games leading up to 96.
00:15We got criticised before the tournament, we got criticised after the first game, but as I've always said, you as a player always have the right to reply on the pitch.
00:26Big players bring the big moments in the big games and his country needed him, needed something special last night and he delivered.
00:36So he's well entitled to say what he said, but I don't ever have a problem with criticism so long as you never get personal.
00:44I don't think we have it, I don't think anyone has.
00:47I think everyone's well within their right to have criticised their performances.
00:52Even the players, even the manager have been saying that it hasn't been good enough and it's our job to analyse it and we have analysed it and it hasn't been good up to now.