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Post by tezza202 on May 8, 2006 9:07:52 GMT -5
Theo Walcott and Aaron Lennon are in England's provisional World Cup squad, but Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jermain Defoe and Ledley King miss out.
Arsenal teenager Walcott is one of only four strikers in Sven-Goran Eriksson's 23-man squad, alongside injured pair Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen.
Darren Bent misses out, while Defoe is on a five-man standby list.
Middlesbrough winger Stewart Downing and Bayern Munich's Owen Hargreaves are other surprise inclusions.
Chelsea winger Wright-Phillips, an England squad regular this season, does not even make the standby list, which also includes uncapped West Ham midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker.
Provisional squad:
Robinson (Tottenham), James (Manchester City), Green (Norwich); G Neville (Manchester United), Ferdinand (Manchester United), Terry (Chelsea), Cole (Arsenal), Campbell (Arsenal), Carragher (Liverpool), Bridge (Chelsea), Beckham (Real Madrid), Carrick (Tottenham), Lampard (Chelsea), Gerrard (Liverpool), Hargreaves (Bayern Munich), Jenas (Totenham), Downing (Middlesbrough), J Cole (Chelsea), Lennon (Tottenham), Rooney (Manchester United), Owen (Newcastle), Crouch (Liverpool), Walcott (Arsenal).
Standby:
Scott Carson (Liverpool), Luke Young (Charlton), Nigel Reo-Coker (West Ham), Jermain Defoe (Tottenham), Andy Johnson (Crystal Palace).
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What the fuck is Sven on? Putting Walcott in over Bent AND Defoe?!?! They may not be international proven, but at least those 2 are premiership proven, which can't be said for Walcott!
And he's put Hargreaves in as well? Bloody hell!
And 2 of the 4 strikers he's chosen are injured, and might not even make it. Great choices Sven.
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Post by melki on May 8, 2006 9:22:50 GMT -5
Dilly - our odds are getting stronger by the day.  Walcott hasn't played 1st team football yet, we are taking rooney & Owen neither maybe able to kick a ball Why no Defoe? I really find Hargreaves a very average player. |
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Post by globe on May 8, 2006 9:24:20 GMT -5
I cant understand why he's picked Walcott ahead of the likes of Defoe
Glad to see David James still in there though, I reckon he should be first choice keeper for England ;D
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Post by Wireless on May 8, 2006 9:27:17 GMT -5
Fantastic experience for Theo  Defoe should be in there though. Hargreaves is WANK! |
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Post by ash on May 8, 2006 9:28:25 GMT -5
hargreaves is alrite, if bayern rate him he cant be that bad, i think its been unfortunate for him that sven sends him onto the pitch at the strangest times, wich makes him look bad
as for walcott, a handful of championship games and hes in the squad??? Campbell shud be counting his lucky stars too
but at least he picked lennon and downing, good choices
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Post by melki on May 8, 2006 9:32:02 GMT -5
Fantastic experience for Theo Defoe should be in there though. Hargreaves is WANK! We are going to the World Cup to try and win it, not for bloody work experience. |
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Post by lionsden® on May 8, 2006 9:36:18 GMT -5
Yeah Rob
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Post by Wireless on May 8, 2006 9:36:54 GMT -5
Fantastic experience for Theo Defoe should be in there though. Hargreaves is WANK! We are going to the World Cup to try and win it, not for bloody work experience. Ye never know, he may score thee winning goal in thee final  |
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Post by Wireless on May 8, 2006 9:37:30 GMT -5
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Post by melki on May 8, 2006 9:38:59 GMT -5
We are going to the World Cup to try and win it, not for bloody work experience. Ye never know, he may score thee winning goal in thee final We are not talking Hollywood. !!  |
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Post by Wireless on May 8, 2006 9:40:24 GMT -5
Ye never know, he may score thee winning goal in thee final We are not talking Hollywood. !! Funnier things have happend  |
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Post by tezza202 on May 8, 2006 10:10:50 GMT -5
Lol! You got told ;D
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Post by goonergaz on May 8, 2006 10:57:14 GMT -5
If Arsene Wenger paid £12million for him, he is a superstar in the making, get him in there and let him loose on the Big Stage, who knows he could be a world beater. He has no expectations on his shoulders, no established BIG reputations to uphold and can just get stuck in, unless of course the English WANK media hound and slate him before he kicks a ball! Thierry Henry said Theo is the fastest player at Arsenal with an awesome amount of talent, not bad to be quicker than Eboue and Henry!. A surprise choice I agree but lets just see, he could go out unknown but come back another Rooney in the making!....and Defoe should have been included in the squad for sure!
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Post by mape on May 8, 2006 11:20:51 GMT -5
all this talk about walcott - but no one is asking why crouch is there. I'd take defoe, bent and johnson over him any day.
a guy like harewood plays a similar game to rooney so wouldn't he be a good choice as well?
anyway i think there shouldn't be such a big fuss about forwards on england because their strength is at midfield. With attacking mid fielders like gerrard and lampard you really don't have to worry about getting the ball up there.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2006 11:38:14 GMT -5
walcott's inclusion is a stroke of genius he has pace and is fearless. if you have ever seen him play you won't be doubting him.
dissapointed that W-phillips isn't in the squad though.
as for 2 strikers being injured he can replace them at anytime so it dosent worry me greatly, what does though is that one of the fit strikers is crouch and i think he is only in the england team as he is an option, good player that he is i don't think he is good enough for an england team that will be challanging for the world cup.
overall a good squad there are always one or two players i disagree with at every major competition but i think this squad could go all the way
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Post by feckarse on May 8, 2006 12:28:41 GMT -5
dissapointed that W-phillips isn't in the squad though. He got what he deserved for selling his soul to satan!! |
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Post by aob86 on May 8, 2006 22:33:01 GMT -5
Fantastic experience for Theo Defoe should be in there though. Hargreaves is WANK! We are going to the World Cup to try and win it, not for bloody work experience. no we'd like to win it but with rooney injured and maybe owen not ready and then missing Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jermain Defoe and Ledley King from the squad then i dont think hes out to win it. i dont see any excuse for leaving out talent like that or darren bent for that matter, hes been amazing for charlton |
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Post by 10 - Nick McCabe on May 8, 2006 22:56:49 GMT -5
Oh! It´s Crouch in the list! Great news |
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Post by brumoscardo on May 8, 2006 23:15:16 GMT -5
Oh! It´s Crouch in the list! Great news Indeed. Good to see Rooney and Owen there too. |
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Post by Bizzle on May 9, 2006 11:12:22 GMT -5
I feel sorry for Bent. 18 league goals with a mediocre team like Charlton and Walcott gets in instead of him. Sven is an idiot. He is taking risks at the wrong time. He should have taken risks when we were losing to Brazil in 2002.
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Post by malvin1938 on May 9, 2006 18:16:20 GMT -5
england has a great team. terry, gerard, lampard, beckham, owen, rooney and crouch can play in any national team, except brazil...
pd. sorry, crouch...mmm...crouch? fuck off!! well, vs uruguay he played really good.
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Post by aob86 on May 9, 2006 19:31:54 GMT -5
pd. sorry, crouch...mmm...crouch? fuck off!! well, vs uruguay he played really good. so what? heskey scored against germany, does that make him a good player? mmmm no |
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Post by 10 - Nick McCabe on May 9, 2006 21:04:32 GMT -5
For my team, give me Heskey all life...
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Post by aob86 on May 9, 2006 22:38:53 GMT -5
For my team, give me Heskey all life... your welcome to him mate, maybe the team you support could buy him after all Birmingham just got relegated so he'll be going on the cheap lol but maybe a change will do him good and he will get good again but I doubt it. |
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Post by tezza202 on May 10, 2006 5:12:37 GMT -5
He needs to be more aggressive.
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