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Published 08:57 29 Jun 2016 BST
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He feels that this generation of players, and the ones coming next, have everything handed to them but know nothing about fighting and scrapping when the time comes.
"Mentality and character is perhaps the biggest thing in football. Does this generation love the game? I'm not sure. I've been to three tournaments with England. I heard players say they were bored when they were holed up at camp and had nothing to do. "Bored? There could be as many as three games on TV a day to watch. I wouldn't miss one. I'd want to study future opponents or look at emerging talents but, more often than not, there would only be another two or three people watching with me. I can imagine that scene remains the same. "They lock themselves up in their own bubbles and then, when things go wrong, they retreat back into them to be told it wasn't their fault. That is the Academy Generation. The generation that became too soft."Carragher believes England fell down in an area tagged by former England rugby coach Clive Woodward as TCUP - Thinking clearly under pressure. The players, he feel, lacked TCUP when they conceded a late goal to Russia, conceding the equalising goal to Iceland and failing to get back in the knock-out game for the remaining 72 minutes. As for Tottenham fullback Kyle Walker, well, he does not come out of the article well after letting Ragnar Sigurdsson escape him for the equaliser.

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