lol, you fail.
Lennon is a great attacking and dangerous winger on his day.
Defoe is one of the best finishers out there, he's a natural striker.
Walcott and SWP are terrible and that's why they don't start.
We only played Barry because Hargreaves isn't fit.
Wanna tell me how the likes of Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney and A.Cole are players without great ability?
Congratulations on naming our weakest players to justify your argument buy the way.
You do realise that, Lennon, Barry, SWP, Defoe, Heskey, Upson, Johnson, Milner all played right, and that you can't just go, we've got 4 players right up there in terms of best in the world, and think somehow that drags the other 7 players to the same level.
Likewise, Gerrard hasn't been one of the best in the world this season, not even close, and much like Kaka at Milan where the entire team was built around one player having essentially a free role, these players in that role look crap everywhere else.
We had, Heskey(due to being to slow to get forward) Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard, Barry, Lennon(with his cutting in), all wanting to play in the same 10 yard wide, advanced attacking central midfield role, 2 of which (rooney/Gerrard) play a relatively free role and the others who love to run into that space constantly for their clubs. Having more than half your team all doing their best work in the same 20 square yards is a disaster waiting to happen.
If England had the best 11 strikers in the world, without question, they score 78 goals each in the Champs league every season, would you put all 11 in the team and because they are the best 11 expect them to win the world cup..... only if you're an England supporter apparently.
Again I'll point out England were the ONLY team to not have a DM, and its got smeg all to do with Hargreaves, who people convieniently forget was the worst player in the team 4 years ago except for the last game, he was dreadful, truly dreadful except that last game. He's widely remembered for actually scoring a penalty as opposed to everyone else missing and being the least bad of a bunch who were truly awful in the last game, nothing more or less.
For Utd, when he's played, which is barely , he hasn't set the world alight as a defensive midfielder, and was often deployed on the right before his last major injury. Considering no ones seen him play properly for, well, years now, its entirely daft to suggest Hargreaves being fit would somehow fix the team. We need defensive midfielders, not a single academy in the UK is producing them, just central attacking midfielders, every young kid wants to be Gerrard, Lampard or Rooney, and anyone that can't pass but is just BIG ends up a centre back.
Defoe's a pretty decent tap in artist but he's no where near Podolski/Klose quality, players who have proven time and time again they can score in the biggest games in the biggest competitions in the world, and importantly, continue to do so.
People pretending Klose had nothing to do when he scored, firstly he ran onto a fairly fast moving ball, he held off Upson who was holding him back, and slotted the ball past James, there are many strikers who wouldn't have been able to hold off Upson or actually score the goal, infact, most wouldn't.
Lennon, on his day, is rather crap. I'll go back to the Man City argument, against the unfittest, oldest, least form left back to have played in the league it was a non competition, he WALKED pass him time and time again with no resistance, and yet with 20-30 crosses, he created one goal, one chance and 25 absolutely embarassing attempts. When he's "good" is simply when a team is so bad he has so many chances one randomly goes somewhere useful. THe City game he was criminally wasteful given the chances and complete lack of a footballer playing against him, yet he was widely praised for being able to beat the worst left back in the league(at that point) repeatedly, and people ignored the woeful woeful use of the ball. WHich sums up his season and his career.
