Jamie Carragher insists England’s ‘Golden Generation’ did NOT ‘underachieve’… but believes a better manager than Sven-Goran Eriksson could have taken them further than the quarter-finals
- England reached three consecutive quarter-finals between 2002 and 2006
- Jamie Carragher does not believe England underachieved in that time together
- That’s despite England boasting a collection of outstandingly talented players
- Ex-England defender believes a better manager could have taken them further
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Jamie Carragher says ‘a better manager’ than Sven-Goran Eriksson could have taken England’s golden generation to a major tournament final – but they shouldn’t have been expected to win it.
The 38-cap defender discusses the Three Lions’ gifted group of the noughties in new book How to Win the Cup: Secrets and Insights from International Football’s Top Managers and argues that a wider view needs to be taken on the strengths of other national sides at the time, not just England’s teamsheet.
Yet Carragher doesn’t believe the golden generation tag was unfairly attached to a group including the likes of David Beckham, Michael Owen and Rio Ferdinand, even if it means people looking back at that era with nostalgia-tinged glasses now.
Jamie Carragher believes England did not underachieve between 2002 and 2006 at two World Cups and a European Championship, even though they didn’t get past the quarter-finals
‘The golden generation tag was probably given rightly – when you consider some of the players in the England squad, there were world-class players – but it probably didn’t help,’ said Carragher in How to Win the World Cup.
‘What you’ve got to remember is what other countries had at that time,…
Source : dailymail
