Sulley Muntari: “England’s Time Will Come”

Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari is still at a loss to understand England’s disastrous World Cup campaign in South Africa.

Muntari and his team-mates came within a whisker of becoming the first African nation to reach the semi-finals of the tournament when they were denied by striker Luis Suarez’s infamous handball and Asamoah Gyan’s subsequent penalty miss.

But by that point, Fabio Capello and his players were already heading home after their humiliation at the hands of Germany in the previous round having secured their passage from the group stage in less than impressive fashion.

Muntari’s Ghana will get a chance to test themselves against a team he believes is still one of the best in the world when Ghana meet England at Wembley on Tuesday evening, and their failure last summer remains a mystery to him.

The 26-year-old said: ‘England are one of the top nations and they play very good football. They have great players.

‘Everything about England is great and it was shocking that they didn’t perform well in the last World Cup.

‘I still can’t believe it because I didn’t think England were going to go out like that. I can’t describe it.I can’t say they played bad football, they were just unlucky at certain times.

‘Everyone expects big things from them and they had all the possibilities to do it, but they couldn’t do it.

‘It’s part of football, it’s part of nature. Maybe next year is going to be theirs, the next two or three years they are going to win everything and they are going to be at the top.

‘They will become heroes again. Everyone has his time.’