Team are not up to the Cup

England are through to the World Cup in Russia next year, but what have they to celebrate?

Of their opposition in the qualifications, Slovenia were little more than a championship team and Lithuania have never played in any major finals so what chance would they have against England’s star-studded £100,000 a week footballers? Lithuania’s national game is basketball.

The problem is that England players just aren’t good enough? Gareth Southgate says England have a brilliant crop of youngsters and he is optimistic for the future?

But I recall the so-called golden generation of the Nevilles, Beckham, Lampard, Scholes, Gerrard, Cole, Ferdinand and Terry. Was that England much better than today’s and what did they achieve for their country? Absolutely nothing.

Sky Sports and Match Of The Day proclaim the premier league to be the best in the world, though I prefer the Spanish La League – but it’s the foreign players, who are the real stars not the English (Spurs apart).

How many English are in the top teams?

It’s obvious the current team will not perform in Russia? So instead why not take England’s under 20s, plus the best of the current England team. This would be a great way to groom a team for the 2020 Euros.

It would be good to see a young England team that is vibrant and incentive, rather than the sterile play of pass, pass, pass and they are still in their own half.

A few years ago Germany and Spain brought their young teams through as a group and look where they ended up.

England are not going to win in Russia, so what have they got to lose, nothing. Scott Andrews