Name your 23-man squad for England

Lux wrote:

Laurencio wrote:

Smalling does it for Manchester United. If you can do it there, you can do it anywhere.

It's not exactly harder to do it for a team with the best players around you.

Laurencio wrote:

Lux wrote:

It's not exactly harder to do it for a team with the best players around you.

Why would it be harder to do it with a team conisting of:

Well if Phil Jones plays in defense, then the only change would be Ashley Cole for Left Back, and he's argueably better than Evra. In front of him it wouldn't be too difficult to have a Carrick - Wilshere - Cleverly set up if desired. It's not like Nani tracks back that often...

Gegilworld93 wrote:

Laurencio wrote:

Why would it be harder to do it with a team conisting of:

Well if Phil Jones plays in defense, then the only change would be Ashley Cole for Left Back, and he's argueably better than Evra. In front of him it wouldn't be too difficult to have a Carrick - Wilshere - Cleverly set up if desired. It's not like Nani tracks back that often...

of nothing?

Zlatan wrote:Or some people might think Richards is a better RB than Johnson...

Steadman wrote:

Jay wrote:Surprised at the amount of people who think Micah Richards is better than Glen Johnson, it's got to be said, the amount of you lot who lap up whatever pundits tell you is unbelievable. I'm guessing that they're the ones who say "Johnson can't defend" and "Good going forward, gets caught out at the back though". And then you put Micah fucking Richards in your side? Seriously? There is no bigger culprit of poor positioning than that lad, only difference is, with Glen being in the spotlight, as Liverpool and England right back, it gets played up so much, whereas with Richards, it gets completely ignored. Johnson might have 10 solid games, then he makes 1 mistake, and everyone is talking about it, Richards can be shaky for a whole month, goes on a good run going forward, and he'll get loads of praise. Some of you would be much better off watching players for yourselves before forming your opinions. I'm not saying you're all like that, I'll hand it to you, some of you watch them plenty of times yourselves and are still clueless. Remarkable.

That's exactly why I didn't include either of them. Jones and Smalling are both all round better defenders.

Danny wrote:I wouldn't start either Richards or Johnson. I'd go for either Jones or Smalling- doesn't matter which to me, both are fantastic.

Just Johnson is injured now, and I don't like him, so I put in Richards.

Laurencio wrote:

Jay wrote:Surprised at the amount of people who think Micah Richards is better than Glen Johnson, it's got to be said, the amount of you lot who lap up whatever pundits tell you is unbelievable. I'm guessing that they're the ones who say "Johnson can't defend" and "Good going forward, gets caught out at the back though". And then you put Micah fucking Richards in your side? Seriously? There is no bigger culprit of poor positioning than that lad, only difference is, with Glen being in the spotlight, as Liverpool and England right back, it gets played up so much, whereas with Richards, it gets completely ignored. Johnson might have 10 solid games, then he makes 1 mistake, and everyone is talking about it, Richards can be shaky for a whole month, goes on a good run going forward, and he'll get loads of praise. Some of you would be much better off watching players for yourselves before forming your opinions. I'm not saying you're all like that, I'll hand it to you, some of you watch them plenty of times yourselves and are still clueless. Remarkable.

I'd rather have Smalling on the right than either of them tbh. But if I had to chose between them I'd go with Richards at the moment.

Lux wrote:Richards is a tank, I don't care about plaudits say I've always thought he is better than Johnson.

Jay wrote:
So many comments like this too, "he's a tank" or "he's a beast", I don't give a shit how big he is, I'm talking about footballing ability, and when it comes down to it, Johnson is a better right back than Richards. It's so rare to see anyone talk about Richards the footballer, it's always "Richards the tank", "The Beast" or "The Monster", if he was the best English right back available, surely there is more to say about him, rather than the size of his biceps.

mauro=beast wrote:richards is a typical "tank" dumb player. i will enjoy seeing attacking players toy with him in euro

mauro=beast wrote:
david pleat compared him to maicon and it was either burley or another scottish one that said that they cant think of a better rightback in the world at this moment

mauro=beast wrote:he has no football brain i was also surprise on every time he play for man city on tv the epl commentator always praise him

david pleat compared him to maicon and it was either burley or another scottish one that said that they cant think of a better rightback in the world at this moment

Ben 10 wrote:Hart, Stockdale, Loach
Richards, Johnson, Smalling, Cahill, Jones, Terry, Cole, Baines
Walcott, Chamberlain, Cleverley, Gerrard, Milner, Parker, Johnson, Young
Sturridge, Welbeck, Bent, Defoe

Hart
Richards - Smalling - Terry - Cole
Young - Cleverley - Gerrard - Johnson
Bent - Welbeck