I'm just hoping that Fabio Capello picks younger players rather than the crop of underachieving screwups we've had to deal with for the last 5-10 years.
How come everyone in the country and club managers can see this, but when it comes to England we'll get the same old slow, useless failures we've had before. Barry, Lampard and Gerrard in midfield. Terry and Ferdinand in defence. Again.
I'd love to see England play:
Hart
Walker Lescott Jagielka Cole
Rodwell
Wilshire Cleverly
Young Sturridge A. Johnson
Every single one of them has technique and pace...but they have little experience (which also translates as little history of failure)
I wouldn't expect them to win, but they'd certainly play decent football and start to build a team for the world cup.
Reserves
Not sure about the 2 keepers
Smalling Jones Cahill K. Gibbs
Palker
Milner Rooney
Walcott Welbeck Lennon
Predcaliber said:
Most England supporters are trying their best to forget it...
France lost from South Africa and Mexico,and drawed against Urugay...
Where was Sweden by the way? oh yeah, they didnt qualify.
England never do well against France (nor Sweden for that matter...recent meaningless friendly aside). I was at the England France game in Euro 2004. We played France off the park and STILL managed to lose 2-1 due to England's mental fragility whenever it comes to tournaments. Both France's goals coming right at the end from ridiculous England back passes, losing possession and then desperate fouls to get the ball back resulting in a penalty and a free kick (which everyone on the stadium just knew Zidane was going to score from).
England made it to 1/8 finals, with Germany - England 4-1.
Sure, quite a score, but England got one goal denied that could have turned the game for sure.
It's one way of looking at it. Another is that England were desperately poor against Algeria (0-0), USA (1-1) and Slovenia (1-0), then got outplayed by a fantastic German team. England had a decent 10 minutes late in the first half when Lampard's goal was unfairly disallowed, and it MIGHT have changed the course of the game...but it's unlikely as Germany were superb in that match and England were inept.
I'd love England to go out with the young players and play a high tempo counter-attacking game much like Germany do. We're still a long way behind Spain, Germany, Holland, Italy and Portugal, but it would be great just to see England play proper football again and not like complete strangers who've never met each other before, which has been the case since France 98
