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

eh, is lescott not going to be playing beside him?

Is Rio saying he wouldn't have a problem playing alongside Terry now? Maybe we've all got the wrong end of the stick and it's really Cahill he can't stomach.

Terry shouldn't be anywhere near the England team

But Pleat, a former Spurs boss and now a Radio 5 Live pundit, said: “I think the agent of Ferdinand is really out of order.

“Agents of other players could equally make a case from time to time. Micah Richards [of Manchester City] evidently has had a very good season and he’s been 'shunned', so to speak.

is that meant to help the case?

danny simpson
kyle naughton

oh shit how did none of the newcastle players make it

Because Newcastle don't actually have any particularly good English players?

Half of Newcastle's squad is English and they finished way above a team that's making up more than a quarter of the England squad. Is Martin Kelly better than every English defender at Newcastle?

Sure. Sad to see LFC missing out on a full team at the Euros by 2 spots. Suppose I'll have to count Nando, Xabi, and Arbeloa.

Is Martin Kelly better than every English defender at Newcastle?

― a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace (onimo), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:20 (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

plainly he is

perch, simpson, williamson, the taylor wot hits it sometimes, and shola ameobi would barely grace a promoted side in fact

shawx otoh should be in really

Better to take a guy who hasn't played a single game in his team's worst league campaign since fuck knows when xp

played 18 and looked p decent, what you on about

Aye my mistake I looked up his appearances and they were listed the wrong way round, with his first season last. Knew I'd seen him more than that in the late part of the season.

Ten league starts (only one between October and March - though he was used in most cup games*). Lost four of them. Four clean sheets. As decent as anyone in a Liverpool shirt this season then (i.e. significantly worse than Newcastle).

*kind of makes sense to pick so many players from this season's Cup Team, I suppose, and to ignore league form as it's mostly foreigners making the difference at the top of the table.

That last bit is great. If Kenny had said that instead of 'kit deal' he'd still be in a job.

Sol Campbell going in heavy

"If it is ever proven true that John Terry was chosen over Rio because of race then I would tell the FA that they can take back my 73 caps and scrub my name out of the record books."

Did laugh that in the same article he claims there was no better defender than himself in the 2009-10 season when he went back to Arsenal. I don't quite remember it that way tbh.

no better defender of himself

no better defneder at arsenal while the 400 others were injured maybe

Last year, rare mistakes [by Hart] gifted Switzerland’s Tranquillo Barnetta two goals at Wembley. “I’d have liked to have saved both but I’m not going to defend what happened and say, ‘It’s so tough’ and ‘bodies are flying in’. It happened. We got the result and I’m grateful.

“Ashley Young scored a late goal and we qualified. I just don’t get too wrapped up in it. I think about it technically and what I could have done better. Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.”

Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.
Was it laziness? Was it whatever? And then I move on.

quite possibly my new fave quote of all time

England pose a danger too, Hart emphasised. “When it comes to shooting, there’s no one I look forward to facing. Everyone has a fair old wallop or can wrong-foot you. We’ve got goals in the team.”

he's easy come, easy go

when will they learn? you can't just let footballers talk.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/13/article-2158619-13960FDB000005DC-489_634x465.jpg

Welcome party: Roy Hodgson and his England team prepare to welcome the WAGS

'a hoy hoy'

ashley young is a wee lad isn't he

no wonder the powers that be at noted tika taka exponents watford were loathe to give him a contract

three years more like :-)

that xi with carroll parker gerrrd is fucking toilet

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/23/article-2163751-13C0544B000005DC-134_634x430.jpg

"You know when you take the job, you're dead. All you can hope is that you can enjoy that time on your death bed and that when you're resurrected a few years later, people say 'You know, he wasn't that bad'."

now that is the roar of an english lion i can get behind

If I somehow found myself a leader, that's how I'd do it.

does england have anyone that can cross and deliver set pieces as well as leighton baines? with his left foot? any reason roy shouldn't just play him as a winger?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19827887

i think Ferdinand's a good way past it but has he jilted Hodgson's daughter or something?

snubbed her iirc

nice to see roy channeling the spirit of christian gross

"I would never dream of telling a player when its the end of the line or whatever I'm supposed to have said. That's up to the player to decide for himself, and hopefully that won't be the case.

"When I speak to him I'll make it clear I haven't selected him - who knows if I will select him in the next one - but it would be up to him whether he wants to be a part of it or not."

trans: just fucking retire Rio

Fraser Forster giving away a stupid goal in the Champs League has worked wonders for his profile I see. He was completely overlooked while breaking SPL clean sheet records for two straight seasons then makes an arse of a shot that wasn't even going in and he gets the call-up.

gary hooper scoring in the champions league gets him nowhere.

A sports writer on one of Scotland's premier football phone-ins (ikr) the other night said "I could easily name twenty English strikers better than Gary Hooper" - presenter said "Go on then" pundit said "Look I'm not going to sit here and name them! But there's at least twenty!"

was just reading up on Hooper after his exploits the other night. Interesting story

I think he was a great buy for us at something like 5% of an Andy Carroll (who Hooper outscored with a lesser team in the Championship). I can't see us hanging onto him beyond next summer, particularly if he puts in another good CL performance. He was man of the match by miles the other night and was involved in everything good that happened for Celtic.

pick england's xi atm?

                              hart
Walker  Caulker    Lescott    Baines
Lennon    Parker   Livermore   D Rose
             Thudd
                       Defoe
        

Not too sure about lescott, he's not really getting a game iirc?

central midfield a little cloggy, against weaker teams i might throw in a more attacking player, andros townsend maybe idk

Surely Cudicini's naturalised by now?

if they weren't gonna play a high line dawson would be clear favourite obv. Struggled over gk but hart's doin ok i'd keep him in there over the strong challenge of wycombe's jordan archer (on a week's loan from spurs iirc)