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His personality has not helped make people regard him as a great but I already covered that. With those players and in those 6 or so competitions one could have realistically have expected them to at least reach a couple of semi finals. Yes, it could have been worse but should have been better...

He's played about 20 more games for England but scored less goals than Lineker. Taking into account qualification rounds Rooney played in 6 and Lineker 4. Rooney had better players around him. The golden generation. Rooney arguably got us knocked out in 2006 by being sent off. To be generous...

Lineker was mid 20s when he got in the England team and pretty much stopped playing due to a foot problem at 30. So many less games. The 86 'success' was due to fate really with Wilkins and Robson being absent and Beardsley forming a partnership with Lineker. The team had nowhere near as much...

2004 great white hope, 2006 Silly dope sent off and probably got us knocked out, 2010 Couldn't even trap the ball, 2012 Yet another poor to mediocre performance, 2014 A bit better but had he been sharper, could have got us a bit further. A very good player though not really world class. Could...