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England : Hoping For Miracles From Same Old Failed Formula

21st August 2008

I sat in stupified disbelief at the England team our shiny new 6 million pound man had selected. It was straight out of the Eriksson Play Book 2004 without Paul Scholes and with Beckham, Gerrard and Lampard all older and none the wiser....

Anyway I am bereft of any new insight into this naive 442 as there is none. It is still a moronic system when picked without width and height. So here are my questions for Not So Fab.

How do any of those midfielders start ahead of Joe Cole based on the last 3 years?

You pick a team and you see no pace, height and width. Do You a) change it? b) think that can never work and resign? c) be glad there are no media stories from dropping a big cohones?

You have no wide players do you pick poor footballing full backs to run up and down like Brown and C'Ash? Or do you pick better footballers who can cross and pass the ball and have some defensive instinct when to get back?

How much evidence do you need that Lampard is not a 442 player?

How many games does Wayne Rooney have to play as a 2nd striker to prove definitively he has no idea?

John Terry 442 are they not Mutually Exclusive?

Give them an intelligence test and pick the best XI? (It surely makes more sense than picking your biggest stars in odd formations and positions they cannot play) Wouldn't that team be more adaptable to international football than ones based on the brains of Rooney, Lampard, Gerrard, Beckham and Barry?

Would any of the Czech players start for a Premier League Team?

Can any of our players complete this sentence "Pass and ...."?

2 small strikers in a 442 how do they get the ball?

Have you [Cap] given up trying to play an adult formation? Is it cos the players are too stupid to adapt?

Wayne Rooney has he advanced at all in 3 years? Is is ceiling now a third of what it once was?

Are the skills of ego management and pandering of a top Club Manager incompatible with an International manager?

Is Slaven Bilic getting drunk tonight? Is the Pope a depraved old Nazi?

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