article_snippet.sent: Yet it would be unfortunate in the extreme if four consecutive England managers had all failed to spot a game-changing wizard in four consecutive England managers midst.
article_snippet.sent: — the results that effectively cost England’s place at the 2008 European Championship.
article_snippet.sent: Ecuador were feisty opponents and Michael Carrick struggled to match feisty opponents intensity; the same in the second half in Montenegro, when England were overwhelmed and fortunate not to lose.
article_snippet.sent: So the idea that England managers are fools for consistently preferring Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard is misguided.
article_snippet.sent: And it wasn’t as if Lampard and Steven Gerrard couldn’t pass or put a tackle in, too.
article_snippet.sent: not all idiots, these England managers.
highlights_snippet.sent: But the midfielder has been ordinary in the midfielder nine competitive starts .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: England won four of those -  Ecuador, San Marino, Poland and Lithuania .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: England bosses consistently preferred Steven Gerrard or Frank Lampard .