Last World Cup England's "great players" like Frank Lampard and Stevie Gerrard never turned up. Their only consistently good players in that tournament were a g

Last World Cup England's "great players" like Frank Lampard and Stevie Gerrard never turned up. Their only consistently good players in that tournament were a guy who used to ply his trade in Germany (Owen Hargreaves) and Wayne Rooney of course (yes I'm a Man Utd. fan). Manchester United bought Hargreaves as a result of that showing. The media has hyped a lot of England's "stars" into the stratosphere so that a lot of people believe the rubbish that's published about them. Every time the World Cup rolls around all England have to do is show up and they'll win it. And when they don't it's the end of the world. Just cos you invented the sport, doesn't mean you have a divine right to win it! In Europe, I would admire the likes of Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands a lot more than England as they have a lot of fine, natural footballers (not to mention they generally play better as a unit) and I'd suspect one or two of the should reach the semis at least. ps. I hope France get annihilated in the group stages. Yes, I'm Irish. Those rotten cheaters should never have been permitted to get on a plane to South Africa. Even if you're French you shouldn't support your own country. C'mon Mexico!