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By Matt Lawton
Last updated at 7:22 AM on 13th October 2009
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Frank Lampard has condemned former FA chief executive Adam Crozier for branding England’s players ‘the golden generation’.
The Chelsea midfielder thinks it was a ludicrous label to give a group of players who had won nothing, only adding to the already considerable pressure on their shoulders.
Crozier, now the chief executive of the beleaguered and strike riddled Royal Mail, used the term after appointing Sven Goran Eriksson as England’s first foreign manager eight years ago.
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You what? Lampard says Crozier should have never labelled the current England set-up the 'golden generation'
But Lampard said: ‘The whole golden generation thing is quite frustrating for us as players. It keeps getting mentioned, which is unfortunate really.
'It is good to have pressure on you as individuals and on the team as a whole. But calling us a golden generation, it was almost as if people were waiting for us to fail.
'The term should only be used once you have won something. Then you can be called the golden generation. Look at ’66 when they won it. That was a golden generation.
‘If it was Adam Crozier who said it, it was said much too early. We have a good crop of players but we have not made the most of it. We have all held our hands up to that many times.’
And Crozier? ‘Look what happened to him,’ said Lampard.
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