Do you only consider ‘championships’ as international ones? Because failing that your argument makes no sense - they all won the lot at club level, were key players in the most successful teams of that era, and their individual statistics to this day support the fact they were top level players.

Look at the CV of a Cole, Lampard, Terry or Ferdinand and explain how they underachieved - I’m genuinely curious how that can be argued.

A post on a separate topic got me thinking, who do you think are the most overrated players in the prem?

For me it’s always the young English players. In past times; Wilshere and Barkley.

Nowadays, Declan Rice would be a clear number one for me. Add Stones, Pickford, Alli and Lingard.

Dean Henderson is coming up on the sidelines too. Not done enough yet to justify the hype.

Any foreign ones worth mentioning?

Harry Maquire.

Good player but 80 million???

Not as good as Cayhill in my opinion.

My take on the Golden Generation is that they were all very effective performers in domestic football, and all played a very important role for their clubs, and in that context, you might argue they weren't overrated.

However, on the international stage the Golden Generation England team looked deficient against the top world footballing nations of that time, and certainly didn't live up to the expectations we were led to believe we were entitled to.

I recall watching the 2006 and 2010 World Cups and thinking that we looked quite pedestrian , and some of our passing and ball retention was very poor. Also, the creativity that was required to breakdown opposition defences, and not just those of the top sides, wasn't there either - 6 goals in 5 games in 2006 and 3 goals in 4 games in 2010.

And let's not forget we didn't even qualify for Euro 2008.

So, I think you can argue that they were over-rated as the England teams they populated never looked remotely like they were good enough to go all the way.