Young really can cross, when a manager does what Ancelloti does and spanks the diving out of him he'll be fantastic again, but with a slow Davies and a useless wannabe midfielder Rooney there was no one to cross to, its no excuse but he and Johnson tend to run into a dead end waiting for anyone to be in a dangerous position in the box.
Johnson though, is just crap, he's Lennon, and SWP, and Theo, and Joe Cole, these flash players who people THINK are doing well because people give them a lot of the ball. Johnson with a freekick from 30 yards, went wide, shocked, he shoots constantly and constantly misses, SWP did the same and for a few years people thought he was good because 3 of his 758 shots went in one season.
Johnson just runs, with zero thought to what he's going to do. he "did" his man what must have been 15 yards inside their half, managed to run the ball to the goal line, then almost to the 6 yard box before he crossed it. Of course with the box full of defenders, and having closed the distance so dramatically he had no space to pick anyone out, thats Johnson. Runs into a dead end on the outside or with a crap cross, or cuts inside and shoots.
he's actually quite useless, just the flavour of the month, with a bit of confidence and a few goals. SWP seems to start every season with confidence, plays a few games, gets a few goals, dissappears compeltely, Hleb is another one who does that. Lennon has way to many crap seasons behind him, one season, half with confidence still wastes chances left right and centre, 4 years maybe was it to get the confidence for that half of a good season last year, and its gone again.
Xavi, Iniesta, Villa, Torres, Fabregas.... do any of them try tricks or try to do their player as often as Johnson, or Cole, or Young? No, simple but perfect football is much harder to teach and do, than running really fast into space with no idea what to do next.
We need to stop picking the "can do loads of keepie uppies and one of those stupid crossover leg crosses" and start picking the best passes with the best vision, and dropping utter turds like Barry.
Right back, I honestly have no clue who should be first team right back, but to improve our defence, Jagielka, Richards, Lescott, Phil Neville, Dixon would all be a massive improvement.
I've also said for years, Rooney wants the fame of the best striker, but his ACTUAL game is playmaking, I don't think he's fantastic at either, but its clear as day for the non blind people that he WANTS to drop deep and get involved, thats what he enjoys doing. Thats why I said he had his most consistant and best football when he was actually a left winger for 3 months consistantly. He started off from midfield and was always running forward, Rooney running forwards with pace is scarey, thats his biggest strength in his game. When you're running TOWARDS midfield, its hard to receive a pass and run onto it at full speed. Last year he may have scored a lot but he had a LOT of woeful games and a lot of games where he was barely visible for 89minutes and popped up with a tap in.
he doesn't like being upfront, he just thinks he should be, he wants to be a midfielder, and the one time he was fully commited to it he was very good, but no one will just stick him there.
He needs a position, be it striker, or midfield, and to stick to one or the other. He was crap tonight, he's been crap for Utd, on current form he shouldn't be in the squad, and the only thing that might make him actually try to play football, is being dropped.
) time and time again, the whole country's setup is totally wrong. We look for guys with the wrong attributes and give them places in our teams, and then wonder why on earth we keep failing at international standard. 
