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every england game campbell plays in he either gives away a free kick that leads to a goal, gets caught out too easily and that leads to a goal or comes up for every corner and wastes a header wide of goal that any one of the other strikers would score with there eyes shut.
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So he's sometimes a liability because he doesn't score goals? 'Other strikers'? He's a centre-back. Centre. Back. He plays at the back. In the centre. His job isn't scoring goals. Mind you, he's scored one goal that was allowed and two that were disallowed, not through his fault. Gary Neville has scored 0 goals in more appearances, but you wouldn't say he was a liability (I would though). He committed ONE foul at Euro 2004 in four games. The goals England let in were given away by people like Heskey and Gerrard in the first match, Beckham/Cole in the third...
He was in FIFA's team of World Cup 2002. He's played in five consecutive international tournaments. He was in the All-Stars team of Euro 2004, where he was one of the four England players who were actually any good (the others being Lampard, Rooney and Cole).
Arsenal's form is notably worse without him and Vieira in the team (well, not this season). It's something ridiculous like two years since we lost a league game with both of them playing.
Terry is a decent football player as well as a good defender, notably scoring more goals than most centre backs and getting a good few assists (e.g. Beckham's goal v. Ukraine and Lampard v. Portugal).