Golden Generation

GOSLING'S GROUSE

"Ever get the feeling you've been conned?"

  The Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten famously taunted a crowd in America with this question during the band’s last-ever performance. He is doing the rounds – in between advertising butter – at the moment to mark the anniversary of the Pistols’ album Never Mind the Bollocks. Ever feel you have been conned by the England football team? Of course, it is not the England team; it is Team England – a marketing monster created to help con us all into paying for the profligate spending that went into rebuilding Wembley stadium. As part of the con we were told of a ‘Golden Generation’ of pla...