Gary Neville is tired of the explanations that follow England's exits at major championships. The Manchester United defender says England must deliver this time in Germany -- with or without Wayne Rooney.
"There can be no excuses this tournament for us," Neville said. "No bad decisions, no missed penalty, no poor performance. They're things you have to cope with. You have to take the opportunities when they come. The make or break moments in this tournament we have to make our own."

Neville missed the 2002 World Cup because of an injury. He knows this is realistically his last chance of winning a major trophy with his nation.
England opens against Paraguay on June 10, and also plays Trinidad and Tobago and Sweden in Group B. Rooney, Neville's teammate at Manchester United, is recovering from a broken bone in his right foot and is doubtful for the group games.
"I'm not sitting here saying that Wayne Rooney is not going to be a loss to us," Neville said. "He will be, but not a terminal loss to the point that we might as well not turn up at a World Cup.
"I think sometimes positives come out of negatives. You know when he's there, how we're going to play. Now, I don't think anybody knows how we're going to play, and that's maybe a good thing."
Neville noted that Brazil managed without Ronaldinho in the semifinals at the 2002 World Cup and went on to win its fifth title.
"You would say that's a great handicap, but it still didn't stop them and you have to be good enough to cope with those things during a World Cup if you have aspirations of winning it," he said.
Neville made his England debut in 1995 and went to the 1996 European Championship when he was 20. He thinks England should have won -- it lost on penalty kicks in the semifinals to Germany -- and doesn't shy away from harsh analysis of his country's international pedigree.
At the 2004 European Championship, England lost on penalty kicks to host Portugal in the quarterfinals. At the 2000 tournament, it exited after the group stage.
At the 2002 World Cup, England lost to 10-man Brazil in the quarterfinals. Four years earlier in France, England lost in the round of 16 to Argentina on penalty kicks, a game in which David Beckham was sent off.
"We were probably a quarterfinal team in that tournament, but then again, you hear the excuses of 'Oh, we had Becks sent off,' but we lost against Romania in the group stages, which meant we had to play Argentina instead of taking an easier path," Neville said. "You shoot yourselves in the foot."
Neville wants England to show more authority to avoid a repeat of the defeat in Portugal.
"With 10 minutes to go and 1-0 up, we should have seen that game out, really, and been a bit more assertive in our performance," Neville said. "If not, the same thing will happen to us again."
With players from England's 1966 World Cup-winning team featured in advertisements in Britain, Neville said the constant reminder of past success should be a spur rather than a burden.
"Until another England team wins a major tournament, you're always going to have history rammed down your throats," he said. "It's right that team gets mentioned as being English football. ...
"Until another team creates those moments, they will be always be the lasting moments. Until an England team does go and do it ... we're going to be a `nearly' team."