Here Come the Dropouts

June 3rd, 2009 | by: Daryl |

I knew it was too good to be true. When Capello named his 24 last week, only David James and Stewart Downing were missing through injury (neither of the Owens (Michael or Hargreaves) count until they can prove their legs still work). And for a while there it looked like no one would drop out.

But this week both Rio Ferdinand and Michael Carrick withdrew, with calf problems and a possible broken toe respectively. Pure co-incidence that they both play for Man Utd? Let’s say yes, just to avoid any arguments.

Word is that Capello is not a happy chappy about the Carrick withdrawl, because the injury apparently happened a whole week ago, in the Champions League final. And no one thought to tell him, which is pretty bad.

Replacements have been called up though. Twenty-three year old central defender Gary Cahill (Bolton’s 2008/9 Player of the Season apparently) will replace Ferdinand, and James Milner has stepped up from the U-21s to replace Carrick.

As mentioned before, it’s only Kazakhstan and Andorra, so we should be fine. But fingers crossed for no more dropouts anyway, just to make sure.

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Sol

So who would you say England’s best players are other than the ones already mentioned in the other article (Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard)?

And what is their style/best attributes?

I don’t seem to recall any really good forward strikers (Torres’ position at liverpool for example). I can’t say I was too much impressed with Crouch 4 years ago (the thing I remember the most was the hairpulling thing, that kind of had a nasty Maradonna taste to it, or Italian if you’re speaking more recent and if you’re generalizing).
Sol

I guess that Johnson dude, or is that Johnsson? He’s pretty good.