Why drop Taylor at right back after such a good performance?
You play your inform players, not your team that looks the best on paper.
one good game on the back of 4 horrendous games doesn't equal good form
i for one pray they never get another chance to etablish a partnership. Cacapa for all his physical weaknesses at least knows exactly what he's doing out there
he looks certainly the most refined defender we've had since Albert tbh. On the ground he's probably the best i've seen in 15 years of going to the game. Still a lot of room for improvement though
Ameobi, big and black so therefore a useful striker, dont make me laugh. Complete joke if he's given any game time at the expense of Xisco's development
good point.
no wait its s***, cos lamps put us thru in 2006, owen scored 3 againt russ, rooney scored against croa, gerrard has ben absolte qual for 3 years nd j coe scored not too recently
you're a very confused boy, note i said since 2006
He hasn't been great for England since 2006, but that goes for Rooney, Owen, J.Cole, Gerrard........
Take Gerrard out of the equation and Lampard for shine for England like he does for Chelsea
Carlise is like 10 miles from the west coast, how the hell can anyone consider it NE?
south of York is very much where the North East ends I reckon. I'm from Ryton (5 miles west of Newcastle) but living in Middlesbrough atm doing my masters at Teesside
up until 2 years ago I was happy to write Lampard off as a decent player who was playing alongside such quality (and taking so many shots at goal per game) that his reputation as one of the world's best was a sham.
It's bollocks and I was wrong, Lampard is the complete midfield player and should be one on the first names on England's teamsheet
and all those goals he's scored for us were just penalties/deflections right?
Not at all, but I'd imagine a reasonable percentage possibly have been.
I'm not arsed about what he did a few years ago. Fact is he's ineffective at this level and has been for a few seasons.
The fact that we continue to attempt to build the side around him & Gerrard as a partnership is the reason England are so poor.
you're absolutely right, Gerrard has to go
I fail to see any evidence of either them warranting a place in the team. Aye, the best option to take is probably to put one of them with Barry/Hargreaves... but i can't say either of them warrant 'absolutely having to be there' on the back of their general performances for the past four/five years.
up until WC 2006 Lampard was playing very well for England tbh, although I didn't recognize it at the time. He still could be if they shift Gerrard
Lampard was responsible for the first two goals and made a hell of a pass to walcott for Rooney's first. He was very good throughout I though
Heskey is a very useful player tbh, thought he was effective tonight