Breaking: Rio Will Miss World Cup

June 4th, 2010 | by: Rob |

FerdinandMS_468x432 Rio Ferdinand is officially out of the World Cup. He sustained a knew injury earlier on in training, right at the end of the session, and has apaprently done knee ligement damange, that will see him out of the tournament. Michael Dawson will almost certainly be called up to replace him, while Steven Gerrard will be promoted to Captain.

This is bad news. As I said in my last post, I know some have been critical of Rio lately, and he has had injury hit seasons, but our defence is our big worry going into the tournament and an experienced player limping off is really not good.

We have to look forwards though. Ledley King will presumably replace Rio in the match against the USA, but can he form a bond with JT and whoever is in goal? Can he play more than a game a week? If he can’t is it to be Upson or replaces him in the centre of defence, so that we have a constantly rotating back line? To me that doesn’t sound healthy.

Hopefully this is our last injury problem going into the tournament. We’ve already lost Beckham, whose experience would have proved valuable (though he is with the team to try and inspire them a bit) and losing Rio is a blow in terms of experience. Can Steven Gerrard fill the role of captain? At club level he has no problem, but for his country…well hopefully he can step up.

I am trying to remain positive – but no doubt having a big injury blow so early in preparations, does mean its going to be a worrying week before our curtain raiser against the United States. Perhaps it is better that it has come now rather than later, and a new defensive line can bond together. Fingers crossed.

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Gary Slats

What the fuck is a “knew injury?”
OwenFan

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OwenFan

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jeffo

HAIL GERMANY YARR!
connor

Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree!

Yeah, i’m so gay man. i just love men so much. Thats why im supporting england in the world cup! Men in short shorts for 9o minutes! yeeeahh!
Homosexual

Will Dawson wear number 5, or will King now get to take it?

I hope Barry takes it and Dawson wears 14.
Pete File

I care more about shirt numbers than I do about the actual game of soccer! I will spend hours updating fifa10 with my own preferred squad number list.

I agree with previous posts that Gerrard should wear 7.
Gate 13

Agreed – Gerrard should wear 7. Ridiculous decision him playing in number 4.
Metro_WC

Is it just pure coincidence that so many of the players who are being ruled out of the world cup because of injury play in the premier league?….So far we have

Ballack
Essien
Obi Mikel
Ferdinand
Hargreaves

and players carrying injuries

Torres
Fabregas
Barry
Metro_WC

and with Dawson replacing Ferdinand, does this mean we no longer have the oldest squad in the tournament?
icare

england ar gonna win it. Rooney hatrick final. fuck germany
http://darco20worldcup.blogspot.com Derek

Ordinarily this would be horrible news for most teams, but England is the exception. They still have Carragher and King on the bench, plus they just called up Dawson. So long as there are no penalty kicks, I could see England winning.

I’ll also be covering games (but sorry, I say soccer because I write for an American audiance) at:
http://darco20worldcup.blogspot.com
Albionbasher

icare:

You worry about Germany.
W e don’t c a r e.

We do not use offensive language either.

P.S. It should read “are”, should it not?
P.S.P.S. It should not read “hatrick” but “hattrick”, shouldn’t it ?

Greets from Germany (those with the three stars):-)
Coventry Fan

I remember how much of a fuss people made when Carragher was called back up…I wonder if they are still as apathetic about that call up now?

England has for many years now been blessed with a wealth of defenders. Rio and Terry were always the best, but England could rest assured that a suitable replacement was available if need be. This concerns me because we are getting awfully close to tapping out our reserves. King’s knee could go at any time and Terry isn’t 100%, either.
http://? stevie boy

to all you yankies we call it football not sogger you ignorent fuckin twats!!
BeardsleyKiss

Gerrard threw a wobbly in the dressing room when handed the number 4 shirt?
He should just get over it…He gets paid a shed load per week and throws a tantrum because he wanted to wear the 7…Capello better watch out though cos he’s a bit handy.