Former England captain Steven Gerrard says he typically “hated” being on worldwide responsibility and blames a scarcity of success with the Three Lions on a scarcity of staff spirit.

Gerrard, 45, received 114 caps and performed at six main tournaments with out reaching a semi-final.

A part of the so-called ‘Golden Technology’, he believes an England supervisor ought to have been in a position to play him with Chelsea’s Frank Lampard and Manchester United’s Paul Scholes in a profitable midfield.

Gerrard, who performed his full profession in England with Liverpool earlier than a remaining season at LA Galaxy, says gamers on the time have been too reluctant to combine with team-mates who performed for rival golf equipment.

Talking as a visitor on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast, exterior, Gerrard mentioned: “We have been all egotistical losers.

“I watch the telly now and I see Jamie Carragher sitting subsequent to Paul Scholes and so they seem like they have been finest mates for 20 years.

“And I see Carragher’s relationship with Gary Neville and so they seem like they have been mates for 20 years. I am in all probability extra shut and pleasant with you [Ferdinand] now than I ever was once I performed with you for 15 years [for England].

“So why did not we join once we have been 20, 21, 22, 23? Was it ego? Was it rivalry?

“It was all the way down to the tradition inside England. We weren’t pleasant or linked. We weren’t a staff. We by no means at any stage turned an actual good, robust staff.”