London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I'm still fucking furious but will let it go soon. Please see notes:
Hart
Johnson – Upson – Terry - ArseCole
Lennon – Carrick – Barry – J.Cole
Crouch - Rooney
Hart: Why? Fuck this pretend nonsense that one of them is clearly ‘better’ in some way than the other two. I’d rotate them – giving them each at least a game – until one of them demonstrates they deserve to keep the shirt
Upson: Why? Carragher is banned – thank fuck – so it’s between England’s 6th and 7th choice centre backs Upson and Dawson and I know Dawson isn’t good enough. Like the ‘keepers, at that stage it hardly matters and you’re splitting hairs.
Gerrard and Lampard: Neither of them will ever reproduce what they do in the Premiership because the conditions cannot be replicated for England. They may have chunks of their respective club sides built around them, they may have compliant and submissive partners on the pitch at home, they may have formed ‘important’ relationships with key strikers at their clubs, however, none of that matters a flying fuck in an England shirt and so they offer a fraction of their club ‘form’. In combination with each other, even less than a fraction. Individually they are millstones to the cause, collectively an iceberg.
Carrick and Barry: Why? Unusually intelligent players both used to putting the cause ahead of the individual. Capable of operating in a unit rather than the unit playing for them, thrive in partnerships, understand team dynamics
Crouch: Why? Did you see poor Emile when he had the ball at his feet and facing the opposition goal? That’s why, well part of why. But thanks for the performance vs. the USA Emile - that's the one to remember you by
Hart
Johnson – Upson – Terry - ArseCole
Lennon – Carrick – Barry – J.Cole
Crouch - Rooney
Hart: Why? Fuck this pretend nonsense that one of them is clearly ‘better’ in some way than the other two. I’d rotate them – giving them each at least a game – until one of them demonstrates they deserve to keep the shirt
Upson: Why? Carragher is banned – thank fuck – so it’s between England’s 6th and 7th choice centre backs Upson and Dawson and I know Dawson isn’t good enough. Like the ‘keepers, at that stage it hardly matters and you’re splitting hairs.
Gerrard and Lampard: Neither of them will ever reproduce what they do in the Premiership because the conditions cannot be replicated for England. They may have chunks of their respective club sides built around them, they may have compliant and submissive partners on the pitch at home, they may have formed ‘important’ relationships with key strikers at their clubs, however, none of that matters a flying fuck in an England shirt and so they offer a fraction of their club ‘form’. In combination with each other, even less than a fraction. Individually they are millstones to the cause, collectively an iceberg.
Carrick and Barry: Why? Unusually intelligent players both used to putting the cause ahead of the individual. Capable of operating in a unit rather than the unit playing for them, thrive in partnerships, understand team dynamics
Crouch: Why? Did you see poor Emile when he had the ball at his feet and facing the opposition goal? That’s why, well part of why. But thanks for the performance vs. the USA Emile - that's the one to remember you by
