Football World Cup 2010 - Pre Tournament start

[Arthurgray50@blu]

We are going to play the best teams in the World Cup, England must pick the best players for it, and the way it is at the moment they are a farce, some of the players he could pick are the automatic ones, that normally pick, he should pick them on performance, and some of the players that played in that poor game, should NOT be on the plane, they are playing for there COUNTRY and the SHIRT, NOT just the money.

[Niles Crane]

It's a good job there is no money then. England players donate their fees to charity and have done for years. They're not paid.

Sorry to shatter the whole "footballers are evil, money hungry ****" thing.

England's players have agreed to donate their wages from international matches to charity for the next three years.

Date of story: Sat Jun 9, 2007 6:26pm BST

Date of World Cup: Friday Jun 11 2010 15:00 BST

Hey Ho

Walcott left out of the England Squad.

Originally Posted by Niles Crane

It's a good job there is no money then. England players donate their fees to charity and have done for years. They're not paid.

Sorry to shatter the whole "footballers are evil, money hungry ****" thing.

Originally Posted by yesman

Date of story: Sat Jun 9, 2007 6:26pm BST

Date of World Cup: Friday Jun 11 2010 15:00 BST

Hey Ho

Times May 17th 2010

England’s footballers will donate their World Cup match fees to charity for the first time.

In doing so, Fabio Capello’s squad, which left Heathrow for their training camp in Austria this morning, will raise more than £1 million for charities such as WellChild, Children’s Hospices UK, the Bobby Moore Fund, the PFA and the Team England Footballer’s Charity Outreach Programme.

[Gavin-D]

Hi, Theo Walcott, Adam Johnson, Leighton Baines and Darren Bent are understood to have been left out the 23 Man squad is announced at 4PM.

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by News.bbc.co.uk

ENGLAND'S 2010 WORLD CUP SQUAD:
Goalkeepers: Joe Hart, David James, Robert Green.
Defenders: Jamie Carragher, Ashley Cole, Rio Ferdinand, Glen Johnson, Ledley King, John Terry, Matthew Upson, Stephen Warnock
Midfielders: Gareth Barry, Michael Carrick, Joe Cole, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Aaron Lennon, James Milner, Shaun Wright-Phillips.
Forwards: Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe, Emile Heskey, Wayne Rooney

1600: Breaking news: The seven England players to miss out on a World Cup place are: Leighton Baines, Michael Dawson, Tom Huddlestone, Scott Parker, Adam Johnson, Theo Walcott, Darren Bent

[SB_07]

Same old rubbish, quarter finals here we come! If that. Seriously though, Robert Green and Upson? Both play for a team that narrowly avoided relegation and considering they're a CB & GK they shoulder a bit of the blame. Carrick is average at best, Heskey is beyong a joke.

So much for Capello picking people who are fit and in form, like he said he would. Another England manager with no bottle.

[punky]

I can't fathom leaving Dawson out at all. He's easily been one of the best CBs in the EPL let alone english CBs. So much for picking players on form. Upson has been better?

Carrick has also had a useless season. And Barry is crocked. Yet Huddlestone still can't get a look in?

And Heskey? WTF?

I don't understand SWP over Walcott either. Heskey I am ok with because he seems to do better with England and is a team player, even if he doesn't score goals.

[Kymmy]

I think looking at a single player is wrong, we need to look at the whole team and the various possibilities and also who's recently playing well with who

[DocDutch]

got to laugh here barry not match fit just come out of injury today heskey dont understand either i dont think england will get beyond qf at all and probably just get out of the groups but then the only real opposition is the us

[Arthurgray50@blu]

What l find a luagh is that Ledley King doesn't train at Spurs, turns up on the day and plays, and has dogey knees and only plays every two games, is going to the WC and yet Dawson has been brilliant all season and is left out, what the hell is the manager playing - and l am a Spurs fan.

[gazzae]

BBC3 - World Cup's must shocking moments

They have England losing on Penalties in the 98 World cup as the 18th most shocking moment!!! Since when was anyone ever shocked at an England team losing a penalty shootout

[Shadow Demon UK]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

What l find a luagh is that Ledley King doesn't train at Spurs, turns up on the day and plays, and has dogey knees and only plays every two games, is going to the WC and yet Dawson has been brilliant all season and is left out, what the hell is the manager playing - and l am a Spurs fan.

Probably because Ledley King is by far the better player and obviously proved his fitness over the past couple of weeks. Its not like either of them would get a game anyway unless Ferdinand or Terry get injured, it definately wont be more than 2 in a week so his fitness isn't really an issue.

I'm glad Capello hasn't let Walcotts hat-trick against Croatia sway his decision, hes been awful for England since then and not much better for Arsenal. He showed it again in the two warm up matches, he's quick and thats about it, for a winger his final ball is awful.

I would have liked to see Adam Johnson get in the squad, but his lack of experiance went against him, definately one for the future though.

As for Englands goalkeeper situation, its definately going to be the case of picking the best from a bad bunch.