You'd think Umbro would have let England play with the ball since January. Surely it would be in their interest too that England be accustomed to it right from the start.
BBC saying the team tomorrow, according to "their sources", will be:
Heskey - Rooney
Gerrard - Barry - Lampard - Lennon
Cole - Terry - Carragher - Johnson
James
Haven't we known for a while what the actual weekend would be? And surely most people would have guessed it would that weekend just looking at a calendar in January.
I'm so glad I was just too young to really live Italia 90. Seems like the kind of thing to scar you for life. Even watching it later is depressing. Watched that semi once and can't really do it again.
Always going to be hard to stay on his feet when he's turning at pace and his ankles are clipped like.
While that may be so, his pathetic wriggling about would suggest he knew exactly what he was doing. Just sad.
Could easily have got the ball to score but would rather draw minimal contact, pretend to be badly injured and get the keeper sent off.
Good point, though.