Jamie Carragher Slams England 'Babies' After Euro 2016 Knockout Loss to Iceland

Former England international Jamie Carragher has described the current Three Lions squad as "babies," branding them "The Academy Generation" and a group who are "too soft."

Following England's humiliating exit from Euro 2016 at the hands of minnows Iceland on Monday—and manager Roy Hodgson's subsequent resignation—Carragher has attacked the team's failings and slammed every member of the humbled squad, per the Daily Mail:

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Too soft. 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.

Roy Hodgson, inevitably, carries the can. There was no way he could continue as England manager after the results and performances at Euro 2016 and he cannot escape the spotlight, but don't for one moment think the players should escape liability.

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Carragher was involved in several England exits from major tournaments during his international career, including the penalty-shootout defeat to Portugal at the 2006 World Cup.

He was one of three England players who had a spot-kick saved in that quarter-final, but it was in no way as embarrassing an exit as Monday's debacle at the Stade de Nice.

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England were widely expected to ease past Iceland—a nation of 330,000, ranked 34th in the world by FIFA—and into the quarter-finals.

But, after Wayne Rooney netted an early penalty, goals from Ragnar Sigurdsson and Kolbeinn Sigthorsson turned the game on its head and England never looked like getting back into the match.

Carragher placed the blame firmly on the culture in which the majority of the players have been brought up: "Life has been too easy. They have been pampered from a young age, had money thrown at them and, when things have gone wrong, they have been told it is never their fault. Some 12- and 13-year-olds have agents now. Why?"

In the immediate aftermath, Carragher's reaction was similarly brutal, although he gave Marcus Rashford a pass after the Manchester United youngster made an exciting cameo from the bench late on:

The legendary Liverpool defender is not alone.

The Times gave each England player a zero rating in its post-match analysis, via Unibet:

The Guardian's Daniel Taylor slammed "the arrogance of a country that still thinks of itself as football royalty."

The hunt is now on for a new manager and Bleacher Report's Dean Jones discussed a number of under-the-radar candidates the FA should consider:

Carragher would clearly back the appointment of a new England coach capable of hardening the current squad and solving the problem of the "bland and sanitised" generation.