- Jan 23, 2006
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I have just been perusing SSN this morning and they had a little piece about the England team and the future England players and gave the statistic that in all the Premier League games at the weekend there were only 24 Englishmen playing out of 220 starters, I guess there were none for the arsenal, three for Chelsea, two for Liverpool and maybe two for United, we had six which may have been the highest.
This basically means that the England squad picks itself no?
I posted yesterday in another thread which is why it caught my attention:-
“Just on the point of Tom Huddlestone in the England team as I see it all of our senior England team midfielders are the wrong side of 28 except Lennon, Milner & Walcott who are wide players.
Gerrard, Lampard, Carrick, Barry, Wright-Phillips & Joe Cole will be well into their thirties by the next world cup and I'm not sure where the 24 -25 year olds are that will replace them, nobody springs immediately to mind which does leave the field open for the likes of Tommy in that central area, come to think of it Jenas would also be a strong candidate.”
Let me put it to you; where is the next England team coming from? Will we have one worth the name? Should we be bothered?
This basically means that the England squad picks itself no?
I posted yesterday in another thread which is why it caught my attention:-
“Just on the point of Tom Huddlestone in the England team as I see it all of our senior England team midfielders are the wrong side of 28 except Lennon, Milner & Walcott who are wide players.
Gerrard, Lampard, Carrick, Barry, Wright-Phillips & Joe Cole will be well into their thirties by the next world cup and I'm not sure where the 24 -25 year olds are that will replace them, nobody springs immediately to mind which does leave the field open for the likes of Tommy in that central area, come to think of it Jenas would also be a strong candidate.”
Let me put it to you; where is the next England team coming from? Will we have one worth the name? Should we be bothered?