English football fans could never understand why the two best midfielders of their generation – Liverpool talisman Steven Gerrard and Chelsea legend Frank Lampard – looked ordinary when paired together for England. The devil is in the detail, of course.  Both players liked to play much the same role and it was never going to work trying to get one to sit and hold whilst the other burst forward at every given opportunity. Goalscoring midfielders par excellence, in Lampard’s case he became Chelsea’s greatest ever goalscorer before departing for MLS. That Gerrard should join him there is one of those strange football oddities.  As each England manager tried...
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