Well its a joke, I dont want to beat the crap out of Capello with the "in form" stick like everyone else is but its plain simple that some of the players he has taken should never be there.
SWP - Not good enough, we have seen this plenty of times before.
Carrick - He is only there because he plays for Man Utd, if any other player had such a shocking season for a team other than one of the top four they would not be within a mile of the England team.
Upson - Lol
Green - At best an average keeper, good shot stopper but that is about it. Nothing else going for him, combine that with a poor season he has playing for a poor team he would struggle to make my squad and get nowhere near the first team.
James - See above, also carrying an injury.
Barry - Injured, wasted squad space.
Lennon - A good premier league player but like many players he is not good enough at the highest level, will be really found out next year playing in the CL.
Heskey - They say pictures are worth a thousand words.
All of the above players are not in the England team through either merit or form. They are simply there because they have been there before, for all his grand statements Capello has fell into the trap of previous managers and picked players simply because they have played before. Its a moronic attitude, I can maybe expect a Confrence manager who does the job part time giving this as justification for picking players but not a bloke on £5mill a year.
A large part of it is down to the press and banging on about this and that BUT its the England managers job to rise above this and pick your team not let the press do it for you. Despite promising early signs (similar to McClaren) it seems Capello is not strong willed enough.
The press keep banging on about pace being important, I wholeheartedly agree
BUT THERE HAS TO BE A ******** END PRODUCTTTT!!!!!!!!!! we have Lennon and SWP who can only run in straight lines. They cannot beat players, they cannot score, they cannot cross. If you want someone with pace pick a sprinter from the olympic squad, if you want a footballer dont pick Lennon or SWP.
Sitting at home we have Adam Johnson who is one of the best young players around, he has decent enough pace and can beat any player out there and put in a good cross. But hell we better listen to the papers because he doesnt have enough "experience" so dont pick him. How else are you supposed to get experience?!? Imagine if every other country had the same lack of testicles problem players like Pele would never have got the chance.
Thankfully Milner is there (but he shouldnt have played last night as he was not fit) Joe Cole id there but he didnt play him
you have left Young at home, he didnt even get a look in
and Downing
This country has a serious problem in that everyones face has to fit, you can be a fantastic player but not get near the squad because you dont play for the top 4!
The goalkeeping problem is self explanitary, picking an out of form, low on confidence goalkeeper is a recipe for disaster. On the bench you have one of the best young keepers in the world coming off the back of a great season but no "experience"
LOL AT YOU CAPELLO!
Was impressed by the defence, good job guys Carragher has surprised me as I thought he would struggle. Lampard and Gerard did a great job, now hopefully we can get past the other moronic press assumption of them not being able to play together. The wingers were poop but we have already covered that then we get to Heskeylol.
I would put up with him in the team if he gets the best out of Rooney but he does not. Lets dispel that myth as well (another press notion) I cannot find the link (can someone help with this) but Heskey/Rooney Rooney has managed 5 goals. Rooney/Crouch is 7 and thats discounting the extra goals from Crouch. Combine that with the fact that Rooney was completely anonymous last night, I hardly knew the guy was playing apart from the occasional obligatory camera shot of him looking frustrated and out of ideas so where in the game last night was Heskey getting the best out of Rooney? It of course doesnt help having dumb and dumber on the rings who only manage a decent cross by accident rather than design but Heskey
DOES NOT get the best out of Rooey and the bloke
is so ******* useless he couldnt hit water if he fell out of a boat
As someone said above as soon as Heskey got clear through and everyone was going mental I just sighed into my beer and cried on the inside as I knew what was coming.
England are not blessed in the striker department, so play Rooney up front solo, he cant do that is another press myth, havent seen any problems for him doing the role at Man Utd all season. Then have Gerard behind him free up Lampard and have..... oh wait we dont have anyone to sit because Capello left our only other decent tackling midfielder at home and brung an injured Barry /slowapplause for that Capello.
I have been saying it for ages that the squad he has took is the wrong one, things arent this way but I would love him to have to sit down and to justify and convince people of why his squad selection is right.
We will do ****. We do not have the players to score goals. If USA out score us in the remaining games we will go through second into the nasty side of the draw and get spanked out of the tournament in the last 16, I can honestly see this happening. If we do improve, and lets face it we can hardly get any worse, and get through first in the group. I really see us falling apart against a half decent team as the squad setup is so poor.
Dont get me wrong I will shout and scream and support England until I am blue in the face like I do every time they walk on the pitch. But lol at our chances and lol at anyone who thinks we have a chance to do well in this tournament. Hopefully I am completely wrong and we will win it and I will eat bucket loads of humble pie, but thats very unlikely.
