The in-depth analyses of where England are going wrong on the football field really make me laugh.

So Steve McClaren boobed by not having left-footed players on the left side of the park against Spain. What I want to know is why on earth can’t every millionaire player use both feet equally as well? OK, you expect amateurs on public pitches to have limited flexibility, but overpaid superstars who train virtually every day have no excuse for not being two-footed. Yet the vast majority seem to be one-legged cowboys who fall over if the ball comes to them on their ‘wrong’ foot.

I cannot understand how these guys ever become professionals, let alone multi- millionaires. I know people are naturally stronger on one side - that’s why just about everyone is either left or right-handed. But when you set your heart on a career in football, as a huge number of young men do these days, surely you owe it to yourself to develop your skills to the maximum potential? And that means strengthening your weaker foot to the point that you can take a pot-shot at goal equally effectively with either peg.

Pele and George Best, two of the greatest players of all time, were both completely two-footed. Perhaps that’s why they achieved legendary status. And in modern football, world-class stars Zinedine Zidane and Michael Ballack have also perfected the technique with stunning success.

But perhaps the finest example of all is the Czech Republic’s Pavel Nedved. The 2003 European Footballer of the Year has one of the hardest shots in the business - and it’s a double-barrelled weapon. While he is naturally left-footed, Nedved has been an obsessive trainer all his life and taught himself to be completely two-footed. So much so that his special talent prompted Juventus to pay Lazio £25million for those magic feet.

Sadly, it is a rare treat to see an English player with that same twin talent. Indeed, I’ve lost count of the number of Premiership strikers I’ve seen miss scoring opportunities by trying to poke the ball in with the wrong foot - because it’s the only one they can use. So are you surprised I laughed when I read that McClaren fielded a team of right-footed players against Spain?

If you ask me, the problem lies with the coaches who try to hone young innocents with a love of football into ‘proper’ players. The first priority should be to strengthen up their weaker foot before the kids get into a ‘one-foot-only’ groove. I would have thought it is 100 times easier to teach an eight-year-old to use both feet than to try to retrain a 20 year-old set in his ways.

But sadly, it doesn’t seem to matter in English football because the professional game is riddled with peg-leg Petes right up to international level.

Finally,  a woman’s eye view on the Frank-Lampard-Steven Gerrard debate. So they can’t play in midfield together - even though they are two of Europe’s finest players. Logic dictates that both have to be in the team…so why don’t we play one of them as a striker? Or is that too simple?

Who are the great two-footed players you have seen play? Let Sportingo have your views.