by wijit » Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:07 am
Capello has said he would only pick players who were playing regualr first team football for their club. I'll not bother listing, but a good proportion of his last few squads failed to meet that criteria.
Next, sentiment has nothing to do with it, if I were playing Crouch there is no better person to cross a ball to his head/feet or any other of our players then Beckham, he is still the best crosser of a dead ball we have too. This in itself should be a concern, it leaves us with real problems because we really have no-one looking even close to that quality.
Joe oh, you need to look at the above. None of the players on your list are anything like beckhams quality, even now, and they bloody should be!
Dawzi, Capello wasn't caught out with the line of questioning, his grasp of English is plenty good enough now to know that you simply cannot say somebody is too old and then say (as equivalent, to save me finding it and quoting word for word) that you haven't phoned the player in question to let him know because you have a good relationship "there is no problem".
SlackAlice, you really need your head seeing to if you honestly think Beardsley was a "great", Shearer could've been had he only kept his elbows down, such an eye for goal as well.
peter, as above. Capello didn't just say no, and to compound matters he thought it a good idea to offer a last game to say goodbye!
Dawzi, 2nd time! You are spot on with the respect thing, one thing Capello has shown to be, is honest. At madrid he admitted to being wrong about Beckham when he dropped him and said he'd never play for Madrid again only to change his mind, and he was shown to be right to do so.
havning been watching England for far longer than my bank manager would like, beckham was the best captain we had since Bobby Moore, whilst I'd not put him as fit to clean Moores' boots he is still far and away better than most.
he will never be a 90 minute international again, but he still offers mush to change a game if (when!) we need it. he has the experience of many aspects of the game, and has made most of the mistakes our newer players have and will make which could prove absolutely priceless in giving these younger players a bit more stability as they get used to the pressues which seem endemic to England.
He'd not really be up to another World Cup, but he could easily go a distance towards helping us get there.