Rooney is ruled out of the first two games, and with France winning in Germany last night, the third game may be a dead rubber anyway. Terry probably won't be taken. Lampard is over the top. Ferdinand is knackered. Lescott is average. Gerrard started and looked useless anyway. Cole will play at left back it's true and defensively he will be better than Baines. Jones and Johnson could feature but everybody was pleased to see Richards back in before the game started. Does Walcott inspire? Or Bent? Wilshire would improve things if fit but that is a big if!
We looked ok in the first half, but when Holland stepped up a gear it was curtains. True we fought back brilliantly but Cahill was offside for the first and, when they needed to, Holland just went up the other end and scored a third. It was worrying stuff despite Parker's ludicrous claim afterwards that it set us up well for the Euros.
In truth, the FA have already waited too long. They should have snapped up Guus Hiddink when he was available. If not Guus, then Jose. And if not Jose then Woy.
I suspect the delay is to accommodate 'Arry but there may be a genuine reluctance to entrust the job to such an obviously dodgy geezer. I mean, how embarrassing would it be when, returning from a game abroad, 'Arry is stopped by customs and found to have an African player and his agent hiding in his suitcase?
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Hahaaa! Wouldn't put it past him
9pm channel 4, HF
Anony-mouse says,
As with many of your posts' eye-catching titles this one is'nt true. Sir Trev isn't sitting on the fence. He's just sensibly said that England have time to make this appointment. Everyone knows that the FA want football's equivalent of Dads Army's Private Walker to take charge, and that he won't want to come til our North London friends' season is over.
All the FA need to do at this stage is ensure that he's serious about taking the top job as I wouldn't be surprised if he just uses the offer as leverage to get a bigger, longer contract from the Spuds. After all, no one likes money like that man likes money.
is that a bloke with a boob job leaping your fence there pal?
It's Andy Carrol on a night out in Liverpool.
kevin in manchester writes...
Sir Trev has already said we stand no chance at the Euro champs or even the next world cup because our system is shot - he thinks it'll be eight years or more before we can hope to be competitive at the top level and only then provided we start churning out talent with the skills to compare with France, spain Netherlands etc. he's looking for a manager to lead that process as much as anything ; I thing he's right; acclaiming the next Messiah only to find he's a false prophet is one of two factors at the heart of the England problem- the other being that clubs and the FA have different and largely mutually exclusive agendas.
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