Well there's a surprise! All traitors defend their sponsors don't they? Why wouldn't Jamie the Traitor defend the man who went down on his knees in front of him, begging him to return to the England fold, after the Scouser had turned his back on his country? But the point is, the inclusion of Carragher was one of the main reasons why we imploded during the World Cup.
When appointed, Capello talked of selecting on form and of building a sense of Team England. Through the qualifiers we did superbly, and team spirit was good. Then there was the Terry business which opened cracked in the England squad. However, the real fissure came with the inclusion of Carragher.
Suddenly players were looking around and thinking, WTF? This is a guy who turned his back on his country and refused to come back for that crucial European Championship qualifier against Croatia, yet at the last moment Capello waived him back into the squad and guaranteed him the opportunity to play. No wonder the players look pissed off and disinterested in South Africa. Every time Jamie spoke, his whiny voice would have gone through me like a chainsaw.
Burgess and McClean defended the Soviet Union after their defection; so there's no surprise to hear Carragher defending Capello is there?
What I really don't get it is that Capello has retained the core of his first team 11 from the World Cup.
ReplyDeleteHe'll still play Johnson, Terry and Cole in defence. He'll still Barry, Lampard and Gerrard in midfield and he'll still play Rooney up front.
Of those seven at least five (Johnson, Terry, Barry, Gerrard and Rooney) were consistently crap at the WC and deserve to be dropped from the squad, let alone the team.
He needs to break this myth of players that pick themselves and make the so called 'star' players have to work for their place.
When he took the job he made a big issue about only picking players that are in form and not based on their reputations. If that's the case then surely Johnson, Terry, Barry and Rooney will have to be dropped. All four had awful form at the WC.
It's a question of who you would replace them with surely? I think, to be fair to Capello, you need to evolve a new team out of the old one. Can you think of an alternative to Johnson for RB? I can't! Any better left back than Cole? If so, I've not seen him. Remember, Dixon, Winterburn, Bould and Adams were not techically brilliant but experience counts for a lot with defenders. I think Capello has named a sensible squad, a squad he SHOULD have taken to the World Cup in fact!
ReplyDeleteHang on HF. Paul 12.00 is quite right.
ReplyDeleteThere now seems to be a group of ''untouchables'' in the squad. The performance put in by these morons does not merit being picked. Terry, Gerrard and Rooney were apparently, the most disruptive players ever.
Going by your logic, Johnson is picked 'because there is no one better' so , if he has another 'mare ..that's ok then?
Capello should start afresh and go looking for the 'new blood' stop reading The Sun and earn his bl**dy salary.
Oh HF please tell me it's not true - just read on the .org that you doctor and change the words of our posts
ReplyDeleteWhen are you going to 'break' the news of Kovac going to Stoke? Your customary 4 hours after people already know?!
ReplyDeletewell its what ive tryed making out aswell by the way paul you left out milner
ReplyDelete1336, let whoever said that come here and repeat it! Can't hide behind anonymous over on the Org of course. Who said it?
ReplyDeleteAnd "Ameet", as the rules of the Game state, everybody who reads that post is now in the Game. Thanks!
ReplyDeletehttp://thegamesgonecrazy.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-is-point.html