Put Your Foot on the Ball
While England's achievement in beating Spain shouldn't be downplayed too much it was apparent that Gary Neville's words of a couple of weeks previous were confirmed, i.e. England does not develop enough players who are comfortable in possession. Watching England I was reminded (as I often am) of my dad's saying - "they need someone who can put his foot on the ball". Someone to slow the pace, maintain possession.
This is very hard to do at any level of football.
Indeed, even the current experts in possession - Barca at the club level and Spain at the national level - maintain control by the tremendously high level of passing ability throughout the whole team rather than a single player (including Messi) who can dictate the pace of the game. It may be that with large squads and three-player substitutions that there is no longer enough space for the player who "puts his foot on the ball".
I still believe that Charlton would still be able to control the pace of the game today as he did in his prime. So, England produced Charlton, why not more? For one thing, as I've intimated, such talent is rare in any nation. I think that Neville is right, rather than hope that another Charlton appears it's a good strategy to raise the interpassing skills of English youth.