Oh come on now.
Who "dominated" the CL in that group? Gerrard for one half of a final (where he was great, no doubt)?
He was also by far the best player on that team at that time.
Rooney never dominated anything in the CL. And as someone pointed out, with a group of foreigners around him, otherwise no win.
I don't like to defend the fat oaf, but this is the lineup from when they won the CL.
GK 1 Netherlands Edwin van der Sar
RB 6 England Wes Brown
CB 5 England Rio Ferdinand (c)
CB 15 Serbia Nemanja Vidić
LB 3 France Patrice Evra
RM 4 England Owen Hargreaves
CM 18 England Paul Scholes
CM 16 England Michael Carrick
LM 7 Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo
CF 10 England Wayne Rooney
CF 32 Argentina Carlos Tevez
There is an awful lot of England in that lineup. Why are they able to win that and never win international knockout games?
Same with Lampard and Terry. Never won anything without a big help from foreigners. They were good players on those squad, but hardly the main reason they won.
They were better than good. Of course, no player at club level wins anything without foreigners.
When you had Capello, was it down to coaching as well? You can't call him incompetant, surely?
First this makes it seem like I'm an England fan when I don't care one bit about England. I don't care about any national team other than the US even though my ancestry is mostly German, Irish, and Scottish. I just don't care.
Capello wasn't incompetent at all, but some of his team selections were extremely odd. Heskey as starting striker and Gerrard as left midfielder are the kinds of things that it seems like only the coaches of England NT try to do and it seems like this happens all the time. I also thought it was possible they'd have a good tournament in 2012, but he resigned so we'll never know.