"Capello’s defence were a collection of hesitant strangers, his midfield painfully less than the sum of their celebrated parts and the attack anonymous."
"England 1 Germany 4: match report"
by Henry Winter
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The Guardian
"The Frank Lampard-Steven Gerrard generation have had failure's nail banged into them and it shows. Deep in their minds a voice must cry out that success at World Cup and European Championship level is simply beyond imagining. The temptation across the English game must be to retreat to the sanctuary of the Premier League, with its Super Sunday clashes between empires of debt. These expeditions in the Three Lions livery are only a trail of tears."
"World Cup 2010: England re-enact a drama of failure"
A brutal pattern reasserted itself here as German youth flourished and English maturity tipped over into obsolescence
by Paul Hayward
[graphic from Telegraph article. Caption: Down and out: England's players react following Thomas Muller's goal for Germany in their 4-1 defeat in Bloemfontein Photo: REUTERS]
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