Originally Posted by
Xanjori
England produced no world class players over the past 5 decades? Linekar did well to win that Golden Boot despite being bad apparently, Barnes, Gascoigne, Shearer, Gerrard, Ferdinand/Campbell/Terry all in their primes, an 18 year old Owen took apart Argentina and if it wasn't for injury would have easily become Englands all time top scorer. Ashley Cole as mentioned was easily the best LB in the world, he made Cristiano look like an average player, I believe Zidane told the world that Scholes was the best CM in the game.
What we've failed to produce is a world class manager, which tbh seems to be an issue across multiple sports for England, Sir Clive Woodwood is the most recent English manager of anything to do anything of repute, and even now the Rugby Union side is relying on a foreigner to lead it to success. You can say that England teams haven't performed at a world class level, but to claim we had no players at that level is ridiculous.