Hodgson had the choice of Terry and Ferdinand early doors and should have went for Ferdinand, ability-aside (and I don't think there's much between them currently) it was the right thing to do in the circumstances and Terry will end up fucking Hodgson over with his behaviour at some point as he has done to various other managers. Once it got to the point that Martin Kelly was included I actually agreed with his decision not to take Ferdinand as you can't have those 2 in the same squad IMO.
I didn't agree with his "football reasons" justification necessarily but if you start saying it's for other reasons then it looks like you've picked the guy facing charges for racism ahead of the victim's brother for very dodgy reasons, and whether that's what's happening or not you can't really come out and say it. The situation's a mess but that's John Terry for you, brings a lot of baggage.
Anyway I really enjoyed the game last night and was happy with the character England showed, I'd have been delighted with a draw at 2-1 down but to come back and hold on was pretty impressive. Think we deserved it against a slow and ageing Swedish side but the big tests will come when having to be patient and spoil the game against better sides, we did a canny job of this against France but we need to start keeping clean sheets as it's doubtful you'll score more than one goal against a Spain or a Germany. Would imagine we'll be out at the quarters tbh, which is acceptable progress really.
