SILVER LINING FOR THE GOLDEN GENERATION

RAY HARPER suggests that England’s recent stumbles put former displays into a different context…

RAY HARPER

All over: England’s players are flat out after losing to Iceland

Steven Gerrard

Frank Lampard

AS THE final whistle blew on England’s appalling exit to Iceland at the Euros last summer, a number of hard messages came home to English football.
We cannot win knockout tournament matches, or cope with the huge pressure piled on us by ourselves and the media. The quiet but significant outcome of the Iceland match is that the history of the ‘golden gen...

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