The players have never been the issue, or the players available to England, the quality has always been there.
ITs tactics, formation and starting line up/squad thats let us down, and thats 99% down to the wrong manager choice every single time. We fire one guy and bring in the most similar manager available who makes all the same decisions.
We need an INTERNATIONAL MANAGER, not a successful club manager, bring in a proven world cup/euro manager rather than anyone but that, and have them pick the team rather than the FA and the readers of the sun.
I agree with some of what you say, however I don't understand where you and others get the notion that the players are there, it's simply a selection of managers forgetting that they exist.
Where are these players? Who are they as I can't seem to think of them.
The technical ability of the England squad (even when all are fit) is nothing short of a disgrace, most of them can barely complete a 10 yard pass when they don't have plenty of time to think about it, apart from a few the movement is frankly laughable.
I was hoping that the debacle that was the world cup would have slapped people in the face just how technically **** poor our players largely are, and if that wasn't enough we've just had the best team in this country made to look like a pub side by Barcelona who are built on home developed players and technical ability in abundance but still we dont get it and think that our players are somehow good enough when the majority are patently not even close. The fact that we finished the game with a front line from a team that were largely complete garbage in the premiership this season is testament to just how bad it is.
The footballing ability in the England side is on par with that of a team at the bottom of la liga, the players from clubs like hercules are more technically gifted than 75% of the England side, and that will win you naff all, you might fluke 1 tournament (which 66 is looking more and more like that, we were far from the best side in that tournament) but you won't do anything more.
Until there is a fundamental change in the way we bring our players on I'm happy to predict thatnwe will win nothing.
Our players are not disciplined enough to play capello style football, and until they loose the Billy big ******** attitude that most of them have then they will nevr get anywhere unless they are surrounded by far superior foreign players. Lampard looks good for Chelsea because he's had truly world class players like makalele and essien to do the donkey work for him, take them away and replace with the likes of Gareth Barry who is comically poor and he's really not very good.
Rooney and Ashley cole are the only two players we have who can be considered world class.
After that we have little until you get to a 19 year old kid who has the ability in abundance, but can't play in the u-21 championships because he might get tired, so his first experience of proper tournament football will be in euro 2012 surrounded by a handful of decent players, a load that are past their best and some more that were simply not good enough in the first place.
He should be playing in the under 21's this summer along with all the other good youngsters we have and they should be being moulded into a system and a squad that can then be brought through to the full side alongside the likes of Rooney, Cole and hart, dawson etc, as a team with a coherent system that works for the players and with experience of playing together in a tournament and with our best players potentially winning an international tournament, then we might get somewhere in the euros or at least the next WC.
Many predicted that germany would be crap at the last world cup, purely based on the fact that they kept a few of their senior players and largely called up the majority of their u-21 side who had been playing together for a few years, and as we so comprehensively beat them in south Africa that proved to be a thoroughly silly idea didn't it? Maybe we could learn something from the Germans, the Italians, the Spanish etc, as they have been consistently there or there a bouts for many years on the international stage while we've been blundering along with the same arcane coaching methods for 40 years now and wonder why we are crap.