Jamie Carragher has slammed the England national team for their subpar performance in Monday night's Round of 16 defeat to Iceland at Euro2016.
The Three Lions were knocked out of the tournament after a 2-1 loss, despite taking an early lead in Nice, and their display has been heavily criticised throughout all the English media.
Losing to Nordic minnows Iceland is one of England's most embarrassing defeats at a major tournament prompting a strong reaction from former Liverpool defender Carragher in his column for the Daily Mail .
“Too soft," Carragher wrote.
“The more I think about England's humiliation against Iceland, the more those two words come into my mind.
“This is what England's players have become. The Academy Generation — for that is what they are — are soft physically and soft mentally.
“We saw the end result in all its gruesome detail in Nice on Monday when another major tournament ended in calamity and blame.
“I call them the Academy Generation because they have come through in an era when footballers have never had more time being coached. At this point I want to make it clear I am not pointing the finger at academy coaches, as others will do.
“But they get ferried to football schools, they work on immaculate pitches, play in pristine training gear every day and everything is done to ensure all they have to do is focus on football. We think we are making them men but actually we are creating babies."
