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I wondered when that would come up. Beckham is a non-entity as far as international football is concerned, let's just forget him. Yet he would have offered more than Barry, Milner and Henderson tonight. People say things like that who haven't seen him play for years.

I wondered when that would come up. Beckham is a non-entity as far as international football is concerned, let's just forget him.

It wasn't, much as I dislike Gerrard.

Steady on.

What's that got to do with poor peformances?

Can't stand him.

Bless him.

Lampard hasn't played for Chelsea in well over a month.

If only this was Fifa, man. Sold R.Taylor for £4.9m to QPR in January 2011.

His goals against Chelsea and Accrington suggest otherwise. No they don't.

I think it's probably the clubs that put pressure on the players to pull out. Now Alex and Terry are out, Cole is arguably Chelsea's most important player. This is actually a good point. Talk of banning Cole is madness, basically. He's been England's best player for almost a decade now.

£10 on: England Italy Holland Russia returns £95.

Honestly, i can't stand these ridiculous friendlies. Have a couple in the summer each year and absolute no more than that. I completely understand why players pull out.

Shame for the lad, but from our point of view I couldn't care less. He's no use to us.

2 of Ashley Young, Walcott and Adam Johnson should be our wingers for the next 5 years or so. Depends very much on Walcott developing into a striker or not.

The only problem it'll solve is the level of opposition no longer being PL standard.

And he's completely shite, go figure.

Cringeworthy. Decent backup would be someone capable of contributing in some way.

You already have cracked up. In the latter half of 08-09 we persevered with a striker who was very wasteful in the box and non-existent outside of it - effectively rendering us down to 10 men in games in which we needed 12. We paid a pretty high price for it, and folk want a repeat? Short memories, or just plain stupid.

You deserve all the congratulations here, mate. Essentially listing the ability to waste possession through missing chances as a strength.

Yeah, if only we had a CB who misses headers, or a CM who misplaces passes. At least they're in position to do so, bless em.

That was what Stoke were like when we played them in the relegation season. No idea what they're like week in and week out and they'll probably be silent as mice when they're an established Premier League team for ten years but I know our players were absolutely shitting themselves in the first half from the hostility whenever we had the ball. Partially because Ryan Taylor had things thrown at him when he was fouled close to the far sideline and later when he went to take a throw-in. Agree with Skeletor, The Velodrome exhibited the best atmosphere i've ever experienced.

Yeah, it's exactly the same type of thing. Such was the ignorance, his career might as well have started in August 2008. You only have to look at Lovenkrands' farcical time at Shalke to see just how feasible it is to 'give him a run of games' at this level - and in a tightrope season such as this. I like the lad as a professional, but enough's enough.

Yeah, of the bottom 3. I like the fact that people are completely ignoring his career prior to last season.

Just turned on SSN to hear a mackem saying 'this result' and others like it will get them that Champions League spot. Yeah, we're the deluded ones.