Yes, and he also plays with a lot of sub-par players, whereas at an international level the standards are higher all round in terms of ability.
International football has never even remotely come close to the quality of highest levels of league football, sure a very very few teams, like 2-3, manage to put in great performances, but the majority of teams even with very good players simply play much worse football because they don't have that level of understanding you get playing and training most days of the week.
Quite a lot of the teams going to the world cup would be beaten by the likes of Stoke quite easily and even France/Italy would have a hard time beating a Utd or Chelsea team. The level of quality of Spains football of late is a very rarely seen thing in international football.
Not sure I agree with Bridge's decision, personally I think the pride of playing for your country in the biggest sporting tournament in the world over rules an awkwardness between two people.
Man up I say
Get a grip, he did man up, he didn't decide not to go because it might be ackward, he decided not to go as they can't not talk to each other, left back and left centre back need to talk on the pitch, there will be tension. Everyone else will feel that tension and in general when people are arguing/having problems you tend to watch and take sides. He took himself out of the running so the TEAM doesn't get into squabbles over whose right and whose wrong.
What if Bridge makes a horrible mistake and his centre back needs to yell at him, or yell instructions at him, what if Bridge needs to yell something at Terry in the same way during a game. These games are even more important for communication than club games because of the very reasons I said, they aren't used to playing with each other, different manager, different system, different players they are playing against.
Bridge has for the benefit of the team given up the chance at personal glory and being in a potentially(theoretically, not practically) world cup winning side.
Frankly, he's done just about the bravest thing he could have, when he shouldn't be the one to have to do it.
Worst is Bridge has been outstanding since he got back from injury(first 2 games he was absolutely superb), and Terry's been pretty terrible the last couple of games.