WTF is wrong with England?

In the Euro 2008 predictor game, 6 points will be given if England win, 95 if it were to draw, and 99 if Macedonia win. Points reflect the number of people who believe how a team would perform in the games. The smaller the points, the more people believe a specific team will win. Logic is, fans usually know who's stronger. So it's not worth getting a lot of points for something that could yield an obvious result. However, always there are those who risk and go against what the majority thinks, i.e., believe that the team could still lose to the weaker side, even in a home game. These are the people who keep in mind the unpredictability of the sport, the never impossible victory of the underdogs.

So I didn't get the 6 points. Apparently, I was one of the many England faithfuls. Anyway, it was just Macedonia. In the World Cup, we've beaten relatively stronger teams. We thought this was going to be easy. But Macedonia have proven themselves to be one tricky team. In the last away match, we've won 1-0. This time, England failed to score despite its world class players and was held by Macedonia until the end to finish in a draw.

A draw! Nil nil! What the fuck is wrong with England? I couldn't understand how a national team which is composed of the best players in one of the best leagues in the world could be performing so... average. Every single freakin' time. My very good image of the team was somehow wrecked by the World Cup after they failed to impress me with their games, despite the favorable results. I suppose that among all games, it was only the quarterfnal result that they didn't deserve. Perhaps the rest was down to sheer luck.

McClaren apparently didn't resort to the 3-5-2 formation. I wasn't aware of that until I read the match report from Football365 just a while ago. (Shame on the comment I sent to 606 last night mentioning the 3-5-2 formation.) So it's not the formation to blame, I guess. (Or is it?) Is it once again down to the poorly performing players? (Rooney hasn't scored for the national team for the past 2 years. Stevie G and Lampard are still struggling. Crouchie, for the first time this season if i'm not mistaken, failed to score.) Or to Macca who fails to make a huge difference after succeeding Sven?

Or could Hargreaves be the answer? In 4 matches, this was the first time we lost and this was the first time he's out because of an injury. He hasn't scored but his skills change how games are played. In the World Cup, he made a huge contribution, losing only to Portugal (probably already the stronger team?). Was Owen Hargreaves the missing link last night? Is he the influential player now? I want him back soon. Or we would be suffering.