{"id":2154,"date":"2026-06-09T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:30:01","slug":"england-2006-the-golden-generation-how-sven-goran-eriksson-struggled-with-midfield-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"England 2006: The Golden Generation &#8211; how Sven-Goran Eriksson struggled with midfield dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former players and coaching staff from England&#8217;s 2006 &#8216;Golden Generation&#8217; reflect on how manager Sven-Goran Eriksson struggled to get the best out of Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard in a star-studded midfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/iplayer\/episode\/m002wbmg\/england-2006-the-golden-generation\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Watch England 2006: The Golden Generation on BBC iPlayer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former players and coaching staff from England&#8217;s 2006 &#8216;Golden Generation&#8217; reflect on how manager Sven-Goran Eriksson struggled to get the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}