Uruguay and Argentina play way more international football than England though, you keep missing that.
Plus there are other factors. The 1978 World Cup was fixed, so that dings one off Argentina, same as England. Spain had the once in lifetime player in Xavi who changed the young minds of the world.
England won the world cup in 1966 with a squad that was composed of every day workers and Labour advocates, a plumber, a hearse driver, a dishwasher, Nobby Stiles had a second job as a dung shoveler in Kent when in the months leading up to the 66 World Cup ffs
It was the most astonishing World Cup victory ever