England Squad Named

On one hand players are excluded from the 23 with the reasoning that it must be on “merit”. Then we name Welbeck in the squad, I think I saw someone point out on Twitter Ramos has scored more goals in the last 10 years than him.

Plus Heston and Livermore on standby - yet Heston has been injured and has not played huge part of the season and Livermore has been poor for a very bad West Brom Side.

Delph has played 1 game this season in midfield and the rest as a left back (hardly keeps wilshere, shelvy, lalana out on merit). So don’t think you can consider him a midfielder.

Main concern I have is IMO there’s only Dier and Henderson who I’d consider as proper centre midfielders. If one of those gets injured we are in real trouble. We do look very weak centrally so I’d have definitely taken Wilshere. (Never thought I’d say I wished Milner was available still - been in good form this year)

I’d hazard a guess that lalana will end up going. Usually one player gets injured in the build up before team is confirmed.

That being said I’ve liked our squads in the recent passed and look how we’ve played so happy to give Southgate benefit of the doubt until proved otherwise.

The thing with Welbeck is that he has a knack of scoring goals for England. Without checking, i reckon he will be the highest goalscorer for England among the squad. He usually plays well for the national side.

Yeah on looking you're right. 15 in 37 (Kane has 12 in 23). Only got 2 since 2014 though (although I'm guessing he's not played too many?)

I'd still take JJ Hooper instead though!

For the first time in my lifetime they travel to a major tournament with zero expectations on them from the press or the public.Arguably they have only one World Class player and he is unproven at that level (Kane) but Argentina 86 proved you can win a World Cup with such a squad.When you look at how the draws likely to pan out assuming England get through the group stages it would see them face the Germans and beat them nobody to fear.

Does anyone remember Sterling's ghost goal against Italy in the last world cup. I remember going crazy shouting 'we're going to win the world cup' before one of my friends pointed out it was a goal kick. I hope that doesnt happen again.

Quoted from Mariner93er

Does anyone remember Sterling's ghost goal against Italy in the last world cup. I remember going crazy shouting 'we're going to win the world cup' before one of my friends pointed out it was a goal kick. I hope that doesnt happen again.

I thought Chris Waddle`s penalty went in V Germany in 1990 I wondered WTF was the matter with everyone

Quoted from 1mickylyons

I thought Chris Waddle`s penalty went in V Germany in 1990 I wondered WTF was the matter with everyone

Not sure that’s come down yet