Disagree ohmelads... I don't think people on the continent feared the England team at all. I'm sad to say, but what happened with your team this world cup is exactly what was expected: overrated players believing their own hype and not gelling together to perform as a unit. I'd compare it to Real Madrid: did you expect them to win the CL this past season, despite the enormous investment they put in the squad? I certainly didn't: it was the chairman buying the players and expecting the manager to make them into a good team. Sometimes it's better to drop a few players to accommodate others who can play in the system the manager wants to play. You don't always need your best 11 players on the pitch, what you need is a balanced team with some natural hierarchy and a combination of experience and youthful enthusiasm. Capello has failed to deliver on these things and has fallen in the trap previous England managers have fallen into, which is some of your supposed world class players are deemed undroppable, meaning there is no room for the manager to put his own slant on things. In that light, there was nothing overly unexpected about England's performance this World Cup..