Heskey in England squad

KdjaCL

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/default.stm

:eek:

Smilies cannot convey my shock at this but suppose playing alongside Clint would make me look good.

kdjac

mike65

Sigh...why are you even interested?

Mike.

Johnny_the_fox

i thinks its good to see heskey in the england team..

on form - he deserves his place.

RE*AC*TOR

initial reaction: who the fúck is Hesley?

:eek:

David19

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

initial reaction: who the fúck is Hesley?

:eek:

Lol my thoughts exactly. If Heskey is playing well he deserves a chance. I presume he is playing well right now?

mike65

Did'nt spot the typo! Heskey scored in todays game and seems to have settled into the Brum side pretty well. Only one goal recently but had a good run in December.

Mike.

Jivin Turkey

Its is proof that players at "big" clubs get more of a chance at international level. He is playing at least as well as he did last year when he was an England regular.

jesus_thats_gre

Jivin Turkey wrote:

Its is proof that players at "big" clubs get more of a chance at international level. He is playing at least as well as he did last year when he was an England regular.

My thoughts exactly. Seems things might be changing though!!

LegacyUser

I am a fan of Heskey. He has great speed and power.

Davey Devil

If Old Slaphead had any sense he'd have called up Peter Crouch. Heskey had his chance and never took it bar the odd decent game once in a blue moon.

However, Crouch is bang on form and deserves a shot in the squad. I think he'd be a handful upfront alongside Owen or Rooney.

Nuttzz

good news for norn iron then, heskey is rubbish

eirebhoy

OMG, SGE might aswell have named his squad without any right backs. No holding midfielder in the entire squad? Kerr named 3 in his squad. England should pay Eriksson whatever is left on his contract and get rid of him asap.

Johnny_the_fox

eirebhoy wrote:

OMG, SGE might aswell have named his squad without any right backs. No holding midfielder in the entire squad? Kerr named 3 in his squad. England should pay Eriksson whatever is left on his contract and get rid of him asap.

at international level - steve gerrard is seen as the holding midfielder.. and Lesley King is the backup (in this squad anyway).

i can see them play a 4-3-3 against the north

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Robinson

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Neville--Ferdinand--Terry-- Cole
--Beckham--Gerrard--Lampard--
----Defoe--Rooney--Owen----

eirebhoy

TBH, I haven't really seen much of England in the qualifiers but Gerrard certainly didn't play the holding role at the Euro's. I'm basically judging Sven from the Euro's as they have near enough the same team still so I presumed if Sven didn't play a holder than he's not playing one now. Petrov was a makeshift holding midfielder for Bulgaria at the Euro's and he played more passes in Bulgaria's 5-0 defeat to Sweden than any England player did in any of their 4 matches (including their 120 minutes vs Portugal).

Fair enough, Gerrard may be playing the holding role now but I doubt he's as good in that position than other players who didn't even make the squad.

Johnny_the_fox

eirebhoy wrote:

TBH, I haven't really seen much of England in the qualifiers but Gerrard certainly didn't play the holding role at the Euro's..

he did...

Beckham--Gerrard--Lampard--Scholes

was the line-up for most of the matches. with gerrard holding.

Lampard was scoring the goals from Midfield - the attacking central midfielder..

eirebhoy

Well then, he's not the best of holding midfielders and Nicky Butt would be a much better option. If he was holding he should be always there for someone to pass to and shouldn't be averaging just 45 passes a match in the Euro's. Drop Beckham and play Lampard and Gerrard in the centre with Butt.

Johnny_the_fox

eirebhoy wrote:

Well then, he's not the best of holding midfielders and Nicky Butt would be a much better option. If he was holding he should be always there for someone to pass to and shouldn't be averaging just 45 passes a match in the Euro's. Drop Beckham and play Lampard and Gerrard in the centre with Butt.

I agree with bringing in Butt.. was excellent for england during the last world cup. But I can never see SGE dropping Beckham.. :rolleyes:

Pigman II

Davey Devil wrote:

If Old Slaphead had any sense he'd have called up Peter Crouch. Heskey had his chance and never took it bar the odd decent game once in a blue moon.

However, Crouch is bang on form and deserves a shot in the squad. I think he'd be a handful upfront alongside Owen or Rooney.

I agree. Crouch would give options to SGE when Plan-A inevitably fails. Hell Crouch could BE plan B considering SGE doesn't even have one.