Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Hungary preview
4 years of wasted friendlies and no plan B. Plan A is, of course, 4-4-2 with Rooney up front. Now the White Pele is injured, the Swede finally has to attempt to earn some of his outrageous salary and this is what he comes up with.
Initially, he name a squad short on forward (2 injured, 1 giraffe and 1 toddler) whilst packing it with midfielders of varying abilities from Gerrard right down to Hargreaves.
Logically enough, he wants to play his strongest side in the 2 remaining friendlies, against Hungary tonight and Jamaica on Saturday. Now comes the experimenting. Reports suggest he's going to play 1 up front (Owen) and push Stevie G forward to hopefully produce the same form he has for Liverpool all season. To replace Gerrard as the holding midfielder he has a number of options. How about the Swede's love-child Hargreaves ?? Or the untalented Jenas ?? Carrick is another option.
No, instead the Scandinavian genius goes for Carragher - a defender. Fantastic, how to upset 3 of your squad all at once. The question is, if Carragher is pencilled in for cover in midfield, why name so many midfielders and so few forwards.
The answer is simple. Carragher played in this position for England B last week for 45 mins. Now if only the idiot had used the friendly matches for the last 4 years properly instead of turning them into farcial practice matches, we may be in a better position to win this tournament.
If England do somehow win the World Cup, it will be in spite of Eriksson, not because of him
// posted by Big Blue Marble @ 4:04 pm 
