Shellshocked

England assistant boss Terry Venables says McClaren was astonished by the level of abuse he had endured after the defeat by Croatia.

"Steve was shellshocked by it," Venables told the News of the World. (BBC)

According to answers.com "shellshocked" means:

shell-shocked or shell·shocked (shĕl'shŏkt')adj.
Suffering from shell shock.
Stunned, distressed, or exhausted from a prolonged trauma or an unexpected difficulty.

Shell-shocked? McClaren was shell-shocked? Please. He's not new to the circus that is the England Team. The man could see the abuse coming from the moment that ball skipped over Robinson's foot for Croatia's second goal of the match. I don't think that Venables has chosen the correct word here to describe how McClaren felt. Far from leaving him stunned, the loss has simply fed into what got McClaren the job the first place: illusion. The man talked and acted and smiled his way into a job that he has no right to.

England need to bring in a man with brains and balls. But the FA isn't really interested in that are they?