[quote author=singlerider link=topic=40658.msg1123825#msg1123825 date=1277020902]
[quote author=Portly link=topic=40658.msg1123381#msg1123381 date=1276906745]
Gerrard was far from being the worst offender. Rooney and Lampard didn't deserve to stay on the pitch. At least in Heskey's case, he only reproduced his usual club form.
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[quote author=refugee link=topic=40658.msg1123373#msg1123373 date=1276905775]
I think Gerrard is being unfairly criticised, he was involved in almost all of Englands best move despite being played out of position.
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I haven't read the rest of the thread, so I don't know if other people have been criticising him as well, but I think it's merited for Stevie, not so much for the performance - as I said he produced some of the most incisive play of the night - but the attitude.
He was shunted out to the left wing, didn't like it, and made damn sure everybody knew it. He was sulky and uninterested, compared to the previous game where he was all over them, this time he quite happily let players go past him when he could have put in a tackle, or let the ball through when he could have stuck a foot out to intercept.
He actually spent quite a lot of time ambling around in the centre of the park, leaving Cole on his tod on the left. Certainly not a captains performance
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True enough, but he was hardly alone in all that. Few of them looked as though they wanted to be out there.