46 years of hurt?

That's it. Another World Cup and another dismal England display. We've had a great array of players to chose from over the past decade. Starting with Michael Owen, Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and David Beckham, and climaxing with Wayne Rooney, John Terry, Ashley Cole and Steven Gerrard, England has had world class talent. Where's it all gone wrong? And why has it all gone wrong?

It is all to easy to blame the coaches. But taking everything into consideration, it has to ultimately lay at their door. Since the early 2000s, forgetting the disastrous McClaren reign, we have had expensive foreign coaches. Coaches who you would have to say, having watched them controlling the team, don't understand how the English game works. We're not technically brilliant. We need to play with passion, while being organised, having a good goalscoring forward, who is complemented by wingers, playing on the wings and putting in crosses. We have to have a combative midfield, getting in amongst people and doing the dirty job that you don't see in an Italian or Spanish game. So why the hell is Capello playing Gerrard, the combative game winning midfielder on the left? He is not a winger; he can't provide teasing crosses from the left because he doesn't have a brilliant left foot. If you're going to play him on a wing, at least the right would be feasible.

SA 2010 comes down to poor management of the team. Heskey isn't a player who can score goals. And at the biggest tournament in the world you can't play a striker solely because he's big. If that's the case I know a few guys from the pub who could be in the squad. So why would Capello bring him on in search of goals? He also bought on SWP as his supply line! Shaun Wright-Phillips should bang a nail in the wall immediately and then hook his boots on it. He's awful, and yet Capello thought he was a better option than keeping the composed, dangerous Milner on?

I'm out of optimism. The England team has robbed me of that. Where do we go now? What do we do? How many tournaments have Fat Frank and Steve Gerrard got in them? All I know is Capello's 5 million a year will help him sleep at night, and just think what that five million could have gone towards. Embarrassing. I kept making excuses; they can play better; they are a good team. It's just the other team's negative tactics. It's time to face it. It's time to be realistic. We went out in the second round because we're only in the top 16 nations in the world.