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England's Golden Generation were 'egotistical losers' - Gerrard

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I'm probably more close and friendly with you [Ferdinand] now than I ever was when I played with you for 15 years [for England]."So why didn't we connect when we were 20, 21, 22, 23? Like I'm in this room for seven hours, what am I going to do?"There was no social media, we didn't have a DVD player or anything.



And then I was just on my own."I didn't feel part of a team. I didn't feel connected with my team-mates with England."I didn't feel that with Liverpool.

I felt like I couldn't wait to get there. We have to take responsibility, but I've got a big frustration when I look back at England that we never did better."I think it's a combination of different things, but one of the big things for me was we weren't a team.