We're way off topic now, but I can't resist. You're obviously too young (or perhaps too old?) to remember Euro 1992, or our attempts to qualify for WC'94 if you think a midfield of Geoff Thomas, David Batty, Andy Gray (not the cheeky Scottish misogynist, but the Crystal Palace bruiser) and Carlton Palmer was in any way 'golden'.
I actually watched the QF game in 1990 again recently - and while I don't particularly subscribe to the revisionist England were dead lucky in that game (we had a stonewall penalty turned down at 1-0, after which Cameroon went down the other end and got their own penalty (which, incidentally was the result of shocking defending, and not good attacking play), and we had a 10 minute dodgy patch), the overall standard was shocking. Completely shocking. We also ended up with Mark Wright playing wide right for the whole of extra-time in that game.
If you exclude Gazza (and ignore his alcoholism and injuries and pretend the '91 cup final didn't effectively end his time as a world class player) the idea that we had a golden generation in the early '90s is laughable. Properly laughable.