England Squad for World Cup - Your Opinions

Murphy would be a better bet than Butt perhaps, he's a big occasion player I admit, but it is the World Cup afterall.

Sheringham (Why: 36 year old, past it, - it would have been better to pick Matt Jansen - the future plus he can play on the left)

Vassell (Has become Teachers Pet - there are better options)

Keown (why - when Campbell, Ferdinand, Brown, Southgate - can play at Centre Half - a wasted choice IMHO for Keown)

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Carragher Anderton Mcmanaman Phil Neville Raymond Parlour Frankie Lampard Clever Trev Sinclair Andy Cole Matt Jansen Kevin Phillips

Glad to see Sherringham there, I have "footballing brain" in the office most used phrase sweep.

Biased as it may sound from a 'Pool fan I'd have had Carragher in aswell. No way should Lampard be there, he blows hot and cold. Trev Sinclair might be worth having along. Don't see enough of Macca to know for sure, I wonder did he realise how much playing in Spain would affect his England chances. (or not playing in Spain.)

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Can I announce my retirement from international football too?

On a separate note I'm getting sick of the usual world cup ad mania. Especially the FIFA World Cup 2002 Playstation ad with the Italians and French celebrating.

SECRET:Irish TV has a tattooed English football hooligan celebrating. And jesus buying fucking oranges at some grocers isn't going to make Ireland win the World Cup, same goes for all the other stupid ads.

Let me tell you be glad you don't live in Ireland because ex central defending legend Paul McGrath is EVERYWHERE. No exaggeration I think he's done about 30 ads in the last year. Anything to keep the debt collectors from the door.........

One of the ads involved God talking in a large booming (but slightly country) Irish accent saying "AH TIS MY OLD FRIEND MCGRATH". "Yes boss, I'm here to tell you about the great offers on footware at Champion Sports". "GOOD MAN MCGRATH".

Dear oh dear.

Just watched the arsenal Manyoo game too, until some fat fuck from Reno just turned it over in favour of some dodgy game show.

Some fat fuck from Reno - were you at a orgy or something.

Saw the Arsenal/Man U yesterday and was deeply pleased at the end result (though I kept wondering when the hell someone was finally going to get a red card, at that rate).

I bet a year ago Andy Cole didn't think he'd be England's third best Cole by this point.

The main fault, obv, is the complete absence of any Bristol Rovers players. I expect you're all as surprised and disappointed by this as I am.

The squad announcement was made too early ! the FIFA deadline is next week? Therefore the England Squad announcement was a media intention PR thang, there is still time to boot Keown off the list - and draft in another midfielder. But ofcourse this will not happen.

Keown should be going, you're way off beam DJM. He was one of the few successes of Keegan's miserable regime - he can defend and defend without giving away free kicks, and rarely gifts the ball to the opposition. I wouldn't start with him, but I'd definitely bring him on with 15 minutes to go when we're 1-0 up against Argentina ;)

DARREN AAAAAANDERTON

I must admit, I always favoured Murphy over Dyer anyway, considering they are going to play them on the left. Dyer has not really convinced in that role for England. Gerrard is the problem though - very important player, especially is Scholes picks up too many of his inevitable yellow cards.

Shame the squad's falling like ninepins, for a while I almost let myself believe England were in with a yelp.

PS. How did Holland (with Bergkamp, van Niesselrooy and the Chelsea bloke who looks and his name sounds like a New Orleans jazz muso) contrive to miss out on a spot in the finals?

Phillips, like the rest of Sunderland's top players, was a bit of a let down this year. I think it's fair to say that he shouldn't really displace any of the forwards on Sven's side.

Holland: victim of a very tough group, with Portugal finishing top, and Ireland deservedly taking second and beating out Iran to make the finals. There's no way Holland isn't one of the top fifteen European sides, but the group system hits at least one team unfairly every go, and this time it was the Dutch.

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Which tubeway stop on the Yorkshire tubeway is that middle picture of?