Former Arsenal and Chelsea defender Ashley Cole has suggested that selfishness and a lack of team ethos was a driving factor in the failure of England’s fabled ‘Golden Generation’ to break the country’s decades-long major trophy drought.
During the 2000s, England boasted numerous world class individuals all over the pitch, including David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, Michael Owen, Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand and Cole himself. But the Three Lions consistently fell short of success.
