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June 28 - They say a great football team should be greater than the sum of its players, but in the case of England's national football team, this proved not to be the case after England was eliminated from the 2010 World Cup on Sunday.
Although the England national football team consisted of many of the best players from the nation's top domestic football tier, the English Premier League, it failed - yet again - to bring back a World Cup title for the first time since 1966.
England fans watched in horror as their team - led by top-rated Italian coach Fabio Capello - delivered yet another in a long line of disappointing World Cup performances yesterday against arch rivals, Germany, losing 4-1 at the whistle.
And even though an England goal - obvious to the millions of football fans watching the game live on TV around the world - was disallowed by the referee and his cohorts, it did not change the fact that Germany were the far superior side.
Ironically, even with Capello at the helm and the likes of English Premier League stalwarts such as Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, John Terry, Ashley Cole and many others on the team, the squad never seemed to 'gel'.
Spirits were high amongst the England squad and fans upon the team's arrival in South Africa, but its first Group C match shattered any illusion that England was the team to beat after it only managed to tie 1-1 with the U.S. in game 1.
Disappointed, England fans hoped that the squad would pull itself together for game 2 against Algeria, but it played even worse, slinking off the field tied 0-0 by the whistle. The recriminations came thick and fast, mostly directed at Capello.
At this point not one England player deserved praise, except perhaps for goalkeeper David James, who was constantly in the firing line of his team's ineptitude. England fans now doubted if the squad would progress from the Group stage.
However, a lone goal against Slovenia ensured England scrapped through to the final 16, although by the skin of its teeth, finishing second in Group C behind the United States. So England lived to fight another day, which was on Sunday.
But yet again the collective of the English Premier League's top players failed to work together, and a younger, far more competent German squad ran rings around England. Back in Blighty, Capello's head will no doubt be on the block.
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