England National football team thread

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RIO FERDINAND EXCLUSIVE: I want to be England manager... we need more young bosses - Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and Joachim Low weren't old when they got jobs | Mail Online

 

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Love of money is at the root of all evil for promising young players in England - Telegraph

Harsh but accurate...

 

[thedon5]

RIO FERDINAND EXCLUSIVE: I want to be England manager... we need more young bosses - Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and Joachim Low weren't old when they got jobs | Mail Online

He'd need to become much less of an idiot first for that.

 

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Frank Lampard set for surprise England call-up with Roy Hodgson facing midfield injury crisis   | Mail Online

This talk of Lampard being picked & this potential likely squad even with certain players injured, better be wrong. Or else Hodgson should be fired.

Lampard, Jones, Welbeck, Cleverly should be nowhere near the ENG squad. I could tolerate Jageilka, but i'd drop him too since he was exposed defensively vs elite strikers in the world cup.

 

[thedon5]

Hopefully Delph and Chambers get call-ups. Delph has been brilliant for over a season now and Chambers has shown his great potential and versatility.

Wilshere shouldn't be in with a chance either, needs to improve a lot first IMO.

Can't understand how Lampard would go ahead of Huddlestone too. Smalling, Jones, Stones and Jagielka ahead of Caulker too? Madness.

 

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Hopefully Delph and Chambers get call-ups. Delph has been brilliant for over a season now and Chambers has shown his great potential and versatility.

Wilshere shouldn't be in with a chance either, needs to improve a lot first IMO.

Can't understand how Lampard would go ahead of Huddlestone too. Smalling, Jones, Stones and Jagielka ahead of Caulker too? Madness.

Delph is a interesting case, considering i would like to see England play 3-5-2/3-4-1-2, he could be a useful option given his energy in mid-field.

Gary Lineker: why not let the players choose the new England captain? | Football | The Guardian

Danny Rose, Stones and Chambers to get chances for new-look England | Football | The Guardian

 

[SpitfiresKent]

Danny Rose!? We might as well just give up now.

 

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Danny Rose!? We might as well just give up now.

Ha well as we both know, Rose is only in because Shaww/Gibbs are injured. And to be fair to him, he has looked decent in Spurs 1st 2 games of the season, after looking fairly poor last year. Keeping Ben Davies on the bench.

Looking at the squad, well despite the injuries to better younger players - it shows where we are as a team if Delph & Colback are what Hodgson has to pick. They probably deserve a look in, but similarly to someone like Mark Noble, i'm not sure if they are truly international quality. Interesting that Hodgson has seen it fit to pick both of them over Huddlestone though.

If the under-21 wasn't playing also i guess Ward-Prowse, Dier, Behrahino could have been picked also.

Welbeck does't deserve to be their, he is not good enough. I'd have preferred him give Connor Wickham a look in, or just stay with the 3 main strikers.

Curtis Davies, Clyne, Huddlestone, Wickham over Jageilka, Delph, Colback & Welbeck.

I firmly believe ENG should be playing 3-5-2, but i can't see it happening with the selected player. So wish ENG could have a more tactically modern English manager than Hodgson at the moment.

 

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Golden Generation was just hype - Gary Neville on the end of England era - Telegraph

Sir Neville on point here as usual. Have said it for years, ENG should have won EURO 2004, Greece winning it always showed what an opportunity we missed. France's golden generation was in decline & Portugal wasn't that great. In fact at that time all the big EURO sides had a old look to it, while ENG had a fairly fresh & youn team.

While they should have at least got to the semi's at WC 2006. Sven tactically was outwitted by Scolari on both occasions stupidly - he was never a coach who was brave enough tactically to drop star players. Playing Scholes on the left & forcing him into int'l retirement will remain the biggest tactical blunder by an England manager probably since Bobby Charlton was taken off by Alf Ramsey in the 1970 WCQ vs West Germany.

Scholes should have been ENG's mid-field orchestrator at least up to EURO 2012, just like how Xavi/Xabi/Alonso was for Spain & Italy at an advanced age.

 

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Gus Poyet claims Jack Colback's England call-up is down to French glamour at Newcastle - Mirror Online

Somebody tell Gus to calm down..

 

[SpitfiresKent]

Tonights starting eleven:

Going forward we look really exciting but at the back I'd like to see Stones play centrally and someone else at right back. Probably should've given Clyne a go.

 

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Tonights starting eleven:

Going forward we look really exciting but at the back I'd like to see Stones play centrally and someone else at right back. Probably should've given Clyne a go.

They sort of played like a 4-2-2-2 cause the ox/sterling tucked inside alot & the full-backs (mainly Baines) overlapped. But this is my prob with Hodgson, he is not a coach that can play anything but a 4-4-2 or small hybrids of it.

ENGG historic problem is we always loose the mid-field battle vs big teams/mid level teams, so for me ENG should always have 3 mid-fielders in the center of the part. When all players are fit, ENG either played a 4-4-2 diamond of Liverpool or join the 3-5-2/3-4-1-2 revolution.

I'm for the back 3 system for ENG right now, because any simple back 4 ENG look vulnerable these days as we saw 2night & throughout W-Cup. None of full-backs gives the same security defensively of Neville/A Cole - all are stronger going forward. So let the likes of Walker, Clyne, Flanagan, Rose, Johnson, Baines, Shaw, Gibbs play as wing-backs.

And none of the our defenders old or young (Cahill, Jones, Stones, Chambers, Dier, Caulkner, Davies, Jagielka Richards, Smalling, Shawcross) look solid as a pairing compared to when we had Adams, Campbell, Ferdinand, Terry, Carragher, King, Woodgate, Keown, Southgate) as options. So put them in back 3:

Hart

Stones Cahill Davies

Walker* Henderson Wilshere Baines*

Barkley*

Sturridge Rooney


Clyne or Flanagan could play instead of Walker

Shaw/Gibbs challenging Baines strong now

I know Sterling getting all the hype now - but IMO, he and Barkley are equals & its a matter of preference which one stars when all are fit.

 

[Skater]

After last night's relatively small crowd at Wembley I wonder if the public have simply lost interest in the England team. I wrote about it here. I personally think the England team should tour the country instead of being confined to Wembley all the time. It would give more people the chance to go.

 

[SpitfiresKent]

Would be nice but I don't think we'll see that happen until the stadium has been paid off. Infact I think I heard on the radio the other week that they're contracted to play England games there for a certain number of years.

 

[Lee1981]

After last night's relatively small crowd at Wembley I wonder if the public have simply lost interest in the England team. I wrote about it here. I personally think the England team should tour the country instead of being confined to Wembley all the time. It would give more people the chance to go.

I took my boy to a mid week England game v Denmark earlier this year, I will not be going again, once you get past the amazing views of the stadium and wembley way your left to watch an appalling football team, then you have to contend with the long journey home.

I had free tickets for the match the other night, I couldn't think of anything worse than going to watch that match, don't think my mate actually got rid of them.

People have fallen out of love with England and rightly so, we are an embarrassment to football