Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
England do not have enough quality players or any world class players. The ones that are decent are over paid spoilt brats. Every world cup since 1982 I build my hopes and this is the same result again.

1990 was the best team we ever had since class 66.
But it can't just be about that. Because that doesn't explain the team's lack of success between 2004 to 2010 when the team had at peak or near-peak the likes of John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Lampard, Gerrard, Beckham, Owen, Rooney. They were all world class or very close to it, and nearly simultaneously. Yet we still didn't reach a semi final, final, or win anything in that time. So there must be more reasons than a lack of quality players.