exactly its down to the coaching. We failed to win with gerrard, owen, rooney and lampard + beckham, this next gen are nowhere near as talented. But in england passing is not a sought after attribute in a player. its not that gerrard say is technically bad he is excellent but had he been playing in spain or anywhere on the continent, you would have seen a totally different player.
England are just a piss poor passing team, i mentioned before the teams that outpass us at wembley, and the u21s are far too old to have been coached any differently.
as the guy said before its very difficult to change from a PL style, of running,grafting and hoofing. If any club side played like spain, the fans would be rioting, no-one wants to see anything but end to end, football. But it reflects on the national team badly.
The germans seem to have a good balance of passing football, but like pierce said recently countries "play to their strengths", our strength is in defending and using pace.
Can't say im optimistic for 2014/2018.
