England? pt. 1

Greetings, gentle readers.
It's the last day of July, and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Navy.  What does this mean?  It's time to examine history, since I have rarely had time to examine current events as they unfold around me. 
The enormous volume of column inches, blog pages, and café serviettes that have been dedicated to the inglorious demise of the English national team since Allemagne/Germany/Deutschland ran roughshod over them enters the realm of the legendary. 
Sighing as I do so, I will toss my tuppence into the matter.
What Went Wrong
England went out.  According to 170 years of tradition, England should routinely have the Jules Rimet/World Cup handed to them as a matter of course.  Every four years, the English press nail the declaration of supremacy to the mast, and hold up the players of the day to be the heirs of Nelson, and every year, quarter-final progession is met with mild disdain, and elimination is met with outright contempt.  Failure is never acceptable.  Yet fail they did.
The Evidence
Those that recorded the England-Germany game, or those with PVRs, or those with some sort of internet access that accommodates replays upon demand may want to try and follow along with my memories at this point.  I might be a bit foggy on some bits.  Those with the ability to replay these: please correct me if I'm wrong.
Goal 1 - Miroslav Klose scores.  Chipped ball over the middle.  The two English centre-backs are all at sea.  Matthew Upson is closer than Terry, but can't do any more than try to half-heartedly foul the German.  He fails, and Klose is past England's rear-guard to stab a ball in past a David James that originally left his line, stopped, then started back-pedalling.  No communication between keeper and defenders.
Goal 2 - Özil picks out Klose, who tags Müller, who finds Lucas Podolski, who effortlessly slots away the ball.  In exactly the way Podolski ought to have done a half-dozen times against Serbia in order to avoid this match.
Goals 3 and 4 - England commit too many men forward when they know that the ball has two outcomes - goal, or loss of possession.  Neither Upson nor Terry has the speed to outrun a dyspeptic slug, and the dynamic Özil and Müller duo rip England apart.  Johnson and "Scarlet Letter" Cole are the only English players that can even stay in the same time zone as the Germans.  Their tackling back looks as foolish as it is futile.

More when more time becomes available... including my evaluation of how England can improve.
Cheers,

—mARKUS