Come anticipate Roy Hodgson's three months in charge og England with me.

parker will just get serially fucked by every cm even like sweden

otm

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this tournament will be the end of the hype over him.

struggle to think of an english cm who'll get less overrun than parker, tbf.

can't believe Roy overlooked Scunthorpe's greatest ever player tbh

We have a second-choice goalkeeper who has been playing all season in the Championship and his morale is still probably destroyed from 2010.

gk reliant on morale can gtfo play snooker or w/e christ sakes.

should, obv, have picked barton

Laura Barton I presume?

Lars Bender (Bayer Leverkusen)

childish lol

xpost gerrard won't be overrun as such, just he doesn't actually do anything anymore. his goals tally is hugely down, he doesn't bother tackling/defending anymore and he never surges forward on the ball either as far as i can tell. keep waiting for him to get a new lease of life but don't think it's going to happen.

i just think parker is too ponderous for international level. he was exposed hugely in the holland game.

parker is smallish, leaden footed, unintelligent and technically limited

all he has is work rate and aggression

Laura Barton I presume?

a lofty ball descended, the scent of the sea on its fine pig's bladder, if that were still used as in times of yore.

then a striker cunted it into the net.

hey now it's hardly parker's fault that he's english
xp

Is everyone else still playing with two holding midfielders? Parker alongside someone else, ie Carrick, might have worked reasonably well, but we have no idea.

Foster, Richards, Ferdinand, Jagielka, Gibbs, Lennon, Carrick, Scholes, A Johnson, Sturridge, Crouch <- would stand a chance of beating that lot.

surprised woy didnt/couldnt get ben foster out of retirement

the lack of interest in richards surprises me, he looks pretty damn effective to me.

why would benfo suddenly decide spending four and a half hours on a bench in eastern europe sounds like fun

i don't think foster could be arsed unless he was actually gonna play, which was unlikely.

neither mancini nor capello seem to trust richards, he's always looked good to me.

"I spoke to Kenny at length about [Carroll] ... and he was absolutely convinced about the players ability, personality and seriousness as a professional. When I heard that I had no further reservations."

parker wins, protects, recycles possession, he's got decent feet and offers a lot of out ball for the fullbacks. Undersold itt.

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I spoke to Kenny at length about Carroll , Downing, Gerrard, Henderson ... and he was absolutely convinced about the players ability, personality and seriousness as a professional. When I heard that I had no further reservations."

Roy never fails to strike the wrong note. I've been stanning bigtime for Carroll, but now I'm not sure.

england manager talking to a club manager about anything other than a player's fitness should be a sackable offence imo

bitter scot always a reliable source of advice for the england manager, i wonder did he call roy keane as well

cos kenny was likely to say - "you know what roy i spent £35m on the fucker and not a day not an hour not a minute not a second has gone by since when i've not regretted it and wept bitter tears at my folly. He's no good Roy, he's...just..no..good" (sound of sobbing down the line)

and yet still no call up for kit deal

I was wrong, Roy has failed to dampen down expectations. For some people I suspect such a thing is impossible

Riaz Hussain on Twitter: "There's enough in the selected squad to reach final of Euro 2012.Lets not forget we have 4 or 5 world class players included"

hart, terry, gerrard, lampard, rooney.
Bish bash boosh.

maybe he meant the finals

tbf he didn't specify what year they were world class in.
Hart-2014
Terry-2009
Gerrard-2004
Lampard-2007
Rooney-2004

There you go

lol NV

Roy never fails to strike the wrong note

yeah exactly, knew his inability to control his gob would cause him nightmares in this role.

Ronan I'm sure you'kk be pleased to know that the Bundesliga has not one but two Benders - Lars Bender AND Sven Bender.

this pick is stupid, why roy why

It is certainly easy to pick holes in his Euro 2012 squad and there were times when Hodgson strayed dangerously close to perplexing his audience. At one point he cited the way Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had troubled Andrea Pirlo in Arsenal's Champions League tie against Milan (Pirlo had left the club the previous summer). Later, the manager explained he had called off next week's training camp in Málaga partly because Manchester City's players had been celebrating a league triumph and "would find it hard to be on a plane on Monday". You looked at him to see if it was a joke and it quickly became apparent it wasn't.

The simple truth is there is an absence of real quality in abundance, something that was not lost on Hodgson. "You don't necessarily have to be the best team to win a tournament," he said. "You can get by with good team spirit, and a bit of luck at the right times."

These were revealing moments by the side of Manchester City's pitch, if only for the frequency with which Hodgson halted play to pass on instructions. "Very hands-on," James Milner observed afterwards. Vocal, too. "You don't have to use short passes," the new England manager could be heard shouting at one point. "Not if you want to use your big man up front." Carroll put the ball past Joe Hart and Hodgson nodded his head appreciatively. "Well done, son."

That strike puts Carroll into double figures for the third consecutive season.

xp or as Daniel Agger knows, "launch it!"

Anticipating a lot of "Terry... forward to Gerrard... looking for Carroll... chance for (England's opposition) to come forward now..." in commentary.

The two times it results in England goals will justify something.

If Ruddy's out, does this mean the guy I've never heard of is in?

jack butland!

@Johnruddy86
Also to everyone who has asked…as if it wasn’t unlucky enough, it IS my ring finger and also my first ever broken bone!

Dude who made his League Two debut in November ahead of Fraser Forster (70 cleans sheets in three seasons with Norwich then Celtic) pretty much shows no-one playing in Scotland will ever get a chance.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/2012/05/24/if-celtic-keeper-fraser-forster-wants-to-play-for-england-he-needs-to-play-in-england-says-john-ruddy-86908-23871039/

really didnt have to go that far to prove his point

Isn't this how Sly Stallone got his big chance in Escape to Victory? That was in Ukraine too iirc.

VICTOIRE!!

Still, if it all leads to Hodgson doing anything remotely like this it'll be worth it

http://youtu.be/xOVsji5dL-k

Haha wow. I have got. To. Watch that.

aka "less ferdinund" iirc