England Rooined

For real? Yep. For real.

But were they so bad, that they crashed out of the round of 16? No, I personally don't think so. England could have gone onto the semifinals, had not it been for their extremely poor showing in the group stages. they were just really unlucky to meet the German stride. Just as Portugal face Spain tonight, and one of them is destined to end their World Cup campaign in the Round of 16, a good team doesn't become bad, they only become unlucky.

England could have qualified without any problem to the semi finals, but they blew their chance. In fact, had they topped their group, they did have a fairly easy chance of making the semifinals. Look at the quarter finalists there! Uruguay and Ghana.
Ghana would have been a formidable challenge indeed, and looking at their current form, you would say, England would have lost against Ghana any way.

But I would indeed beg to differ. England could have put through everything had their coach would have been something of more open against everyone. He struck to the 4-4-2 formation which every English team has applied since don't knwo when, and have consistently failed!

Only heaven save Capello now.

And by the way, Lampard, that was a goal. Doesn't matter, you played bad anyway.