i think its balls to blame the manager..why?
well from all the qualifying campaigns that all the teams had, england was one of the teams with the highest goal tally (and this time we did play some decent teams too not just crap like azabaijhan or some other goat country).During this time Fabio became Don Fabio to the english fans.
now you tell me, how can the same team, with the same players, same tactics perform so poorly? Fact is, players like rooney, lampard etc are just highly paid pieces of dog shite, that rather play for their clubs than their country. we see it day in day out in the premier league,champions league, where rooney demolishes some of the worlds best defenders. yet he couldnt handle fredrich/metasacker (SP) from all the german squad they are the most suspect, the weak links in the chain.
having said that...i dont think england deserved to go thro the group stage. The easiest group and they qualify by scoring 2 goals? if i had my way, id send the lot to a glue factory.
Germany deserved the win by a big margin. i also hoped that we lost 4-0 instead of getting a consolation goal.