I'm actually glad that ashley cole isn't­ playing because he's very insecure for his position­ at left back. for john terry, it's dissapointing­ to get injured again and England have lot to lose if­ he's gone. He'll be back and compete in no­ time.

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JT Is Captain, Fair Enough, He Needs 2 Be In­ Always.
Ashley Cole Is No Loss Though, I Would Like 2­ See Lescott Play Instead, But We Know Capello Will Pick­ Upson Even Though He Passed The Ball Back To David Jame­ Just In Front Of A Kazakhstan Striker (Luckily He Was­ Rubbish).
SORT OUT THAT DEFENCE MR CAPELLO, DONT BE A­ YES MAN

Sarah Howard, Littlehampton

ENGLAND are @#$% @#$% play for chelsea but @#$% ENGLAND

tolley274 my thoughts too mate f*** england we only­ care about chelsea and our wallets

tolley274 my thoughts too mate f*** england we only­ care about chelsea and our wallets

England fans are a joke all you see are digs at Chelsea­ players from all fans other than Chelsea fans, digs at­ man u players from all fans of clubs other than Man U­ digs at liverpool players from all but Liverpool fans­ and the same with other clubs. The fans create the­ anti club feeling which must filter through to the­ players and keep the club rivalery formost in player­ minds. If your fans dropped the interclub rivalry when­ your national shirt was put on then your national team­ made from individual clubs could forget their rivalry­ and start playing together as a team and not as­ individuals. Only then would we the fans of other­ nations have something to fear. You have the greatest­ players but you are so club predjudice that you will­ never allow your players to get it together for­ internationals. It is the supporters who are the joke­ keep it up and you will continue your lack of sucess.­ For which we of othernationalities are grateful!!!

Sappercommando you prat.
Firstly its not Soccer its­ football, only game where primarily kick the ball with­ your foot.
Secondly your claim that our group is easy­ and its an easy way to the World Cup, vastly­ disrespectful to the other nations in our group, at­ attitude expected by a Frenchmen, arrogance,­ shock.
Thirdly I think your comments about the English­ league and our average English players, is that­ jealousy because your own national players want to live­ in England???? Are you sure Rooney, Terry, Lampard,­ Gerrard, Ferdinand and co are average, I dont agree we­ have in the past lacked the tactical side of the game­ never the ability.
In all reading what you have put on­ here is laughable your lack of knowledge on the English­ game domestically and nationally leads me to believe­ you must really be a Rugby fan, go throw an egg.

How can you drop a player whose overall game is a­ little better than Lampards, Lampard against Croatia­ had his best game for England as most games he normally­ shoots from 30 odd yards and he his best when he is­ running into the pen.area recieving a pass yet he do­ not do it enough for England and yet we have one player­ that does both these things in games and is a lot more­ accurate than Frank from long range,sure Gerrard did­ not have a good game last weekend but neither did­ anyone else but what I do agree with you on is Capello­ can only play one and for me it's Gerrard,­ just.....

To Ryokan P,
And that is exactly my point. It's a­ game and nothing else.

To sappercommando25, chill out, its a GAME!!

To Jean J,
What is your mental age?

To yosef9636,
Are you sexually perverted?

To rick.hudson,
Who and what are you to be calling him­ a @#$%. Look at yourself

To charleyd10,
It always amuses me how people like you­ go on and on about history and glorious goals. What is­ the point of all these "glorious" goals when­ at the end of the day, there is nothing to show for­ them. We live in the present, not the past like you so­ get real you dense British idiot.

To vuduedaddy,
It is true that foreign players have­ largely taken up the places meant for the home grown­ players and this has blighted any young talent out­ there but it doesn't help when these foreign­ players are not only endorsed but also glorified. This­ puts a damper on the enthusiasm of any English player.­
The bottom line is that England have had too many­ players in the wrong places for far too long and they­ have now resigned themselves to club soccer where they­ are highly regarded. The English are not interested in­ the international arena now as they have realised that­ they are just averages.

i would say as long as you keep buying foreign players­ from other countries the home grown talent will not get­ better and that is why you always see the same old­ names. If they have played so long together why­ can't they play together. At least you see a little­ effort and enthusiasm from the Brown and Walcot. Too­ bad the rest of the team doesn't play like that.

Another problem is with the general attitide of the­ English public, especially the Soccer Supporters. They­ only have loyalty to their players when the team win­ but the moment the national side is on the losing end­ of the stick, the tables turn for the worse. I have­ been a witness to this on a number of occasions notably­ when the Portugese dumped the English out of the World­ Cup 2006 by virtue of penalties. Suddenly the English­ players went from being heroes to vilans with the­ shortest space of time. And an overwhelming majority of­ those in that packed out nightclub/pub were by no means­ real Supporters of the game or their country. One day,­ when they had nothing to do (as usual) the people­ decided to sport English shirts and become supporters.­ What a joke that nation is.
That is one thing that­ always amuses me, how they run around in soccer shirts­ and are on the other hand so average at the game :-)

One of the major hangups in English national soccer is­ that management have the habit of listing the same old­ names with the usual predictable results. Now of course­ England shall qualify as they have no realistic­ opposition in their Group at all. Apart from that their­ nemisis Croatia is not firing on all cylinders. So­ England not qualifying for the 2010 Cup is not even in­ the wildest of dreams. The problem with their group is­ that the English get far too used to pounding easy­ opposition like Kazachstan, so, when they eventually­ lock horns with the likes of the French, the result is­ the usual sour grapes with the pitch to blame or­ something ridiculous like that. (Remember the Penalty­ Shoot out with I think Portugal in 2006)
In order to­ have any chance of realistically winning anything at­ all, the English have to put in those performances­ against REAL opposition. It is exactly this that the­ English consistently don't do and this is why they­ are just a bunch of averages in the international­ arena. As I have said in previous comments on here,­ until the English win the Euro, they can forget about­ any World Cup. The English are neither good nor bad at­ soccer....they are just average, or more accurately­ said, they have put themselves content with being­ average even though they would be capable of more.­
Being in easy Groups in the qualifiers tends to bring­ out the worst in them but the problem is that this has­ become a habit with the English. Topping such groups­ also leads to the media and the naive general soccer­ fans overhyping the players so when the English players­ don't produce, this has severe negative effects and­ as usual the manager gets the boot.

singh if your proud to be gay u @#$% cheese