This is key. World Class for Liverpool. Ok for England. And why? The manager. Erikkson has to take full responsibility for players out of position and curtailing their natural ability. Gerrard should have been played on the right hand side. Where, he has had his best season for Liverpool. Carrick and Hargreaves in the midfield, Joe Cole on the left. Rooney and Crouch upfront. (For Rooney, replace with Lampard, when he was injured) He decided that he would stick 11 players on the pitch and get them to conform to a system which was not appropriate to the fit players, let alone the unfit ones. Half the time, the players did not look like they understood their positions. No surprise that Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney had average or poor tournaments. Another point is that the English media do not help by applying criticism dependent on who plays, not how they play indivudally, or as a team. Unfortunately, Sven was too gutless to resist this and the result was seen in the World Cup.