England Squad

[refugee]

Freudian slip there Macca ?

You're too quick for me.

 

[gkmacca]

It's very much a typo, I mean over-age player -- I was really tired yesterday! (Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!)

 

[King Binny]

Jamie Carragher has added his weight to the debate on England’s struggle to develop world-class players for Roy Hodgson’s national side by declaring that academies should be prevented from buying in any foreign players.

Top Premier League sides find foreign youngsters far cheaper to buy than the best English talent and Carragher told The Independent that clubs’ impulse to purchase them is blocking the potential development of young home-grown players.

“Academies should be for our kids and if you buy foreign players they should be for the first team,” said Carragher, a new member of the Sky Sports team of analysts for the new season. “I don’t think it should be made easy for players to get into your first team. The foreign players have been brilliant for this country. But it’s at the stage now where reserve and youth teams are full of foreign players – and what chance do young players have if they can’t get into the youth or reserve team? Let’s give them that chance to show a manager what they can do and then ask, are they ready?”

The former Liverpool defender’s concerns about the lack of opportunity for English players are shared by his co-analyst at Sky, Gary Neville, who believes that the current generation of young English footballers are having their route to the top of the game blocked despite being capable of playing at the highest level.

The Premier League said that 95 per cent of 16 to 18-year-olds at academies are British and that 75 per cent of players competing in the new Premier League’s Under-21 competition last season were British, including 16 of the 22 players in the starting line-up between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.

But with a declining number of English players in the Premier League having a detrimental effect on the England team, Carragher believes action is required.

“You can buy a young foreign player for £250,000 but you’ll buy 10 of them and think one of them will probably do well,” Carragher said. “As things are, clubs take these players and say, ‘If it doesn’t work out at the end of the day it only cost us £250,000.’ If I was in a youth team and Liverpool bought the French Under-18 captain in my position, that would deflate me. I don’t think it’s that good for the foreign players either – leaving home at 15 or 16 without their family and friends, adapting to a new style of football. I just don’t think it works.”

 

[Modo]

That's racist and wrong.

 

[Fabio]

How's it racist?

 

[Modo]

How's it racist?

I kinda wrote it in jest, but it's wrong though. The foreign kids aren't the reason why English players aren't making it.

 

[Markeh]

They were talking about this on the radio and some guy from Scotland called in to say about how he used to play on the local school pitches as a kid with his mates but now its a private astroturf pitch that costs £40 for an hour. My old school is like that too, it had a gravel pitch and a grass pitch, now it has a little astroturf thing closed off with better security than most police stations after school hours unless you're paying.

Plus the weather is shite and fifa is good on the xbox

 

[Modo]

You also have to look at the reason why clubs are buying foreign players instead of English players and the simple reason is because they're aren't good enough.
Instead of feeling dejected and blaming foreigners they should strive to improve themselves and become better than their foreign competition. Why hasn't Carra brought up our FA youth cup winning teams from 2006 and 2007?

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GK David Roberts
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DF Stephen Darby
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DF Robbie Threlfall
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DF Jack Hobbs
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DF Godwin Antwi
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MF Charlie Barnett
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MF Paul Barratt
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MF Ryan Flynn
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FW Craig Lindfield
10

MF Paul Anderson
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MF Adam Hammill
Sub

GK Josh Mimms
Sub

DF Miki Roque
Sub

MF Jimmy Ryan
Sub

MF Jay Spearing
Sub

FW Michael Nardiello

 

[Modo]

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GK Martin Hansen
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DF Stephen Darby
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DF Michael Burns
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DF Jay Spearing (c)
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DF Robbie Threlfall
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MF Charlie Barnett
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MF Jimmy Ryan
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MF Ryan Flynn
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FW Craig Lindfield
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FW Lee Woodward

67'
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MF Raymond Putterill
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FW Steve Irwin
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GK David Roberts
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MF Sean Highdale
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MF Ben Parsonage
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FW Nathan Eccleston

 

[Modo]

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GK David Roberts
2

DF Jay Spearing (c)
3

DF Robbie Threlfall
4

DF Stephen Darby
5

DF Michael Burns
6

MF Jimmy Ryan

94'
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MF Raymond Putterill
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MF Ryan Flynn
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FW Craig Lindfield
10

FW Astrit Ajdarevic

81'
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MF Charlie Barnett
Sub

GK Josh Mimms
Sub

DF Steve Irwin

81'
Sub

MF Sean Highdale
Sub

MF Ben Parsonage
Sub

FW Lee Woodward

Pretty much all English, right? Now, how many made it in Liverpool or some place else that's equivalent of LFC's stature?

 

[gkmacca]

Stop with all the flags, it's giving me a headache!

 

[Mystic]

Raheem just scored for the U21.

 

[red_maradona]

don't agree with carra. if you're good enough, you're good enough.

 

[Modo]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EAwW85O_Jak

 

[Whirly]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EAwW85O_Jak

4:40 for random Andy Carroll name drop

 

[LarryHagman]

Shite squad but they're only playing the Jocks. The 1966 squad would probably still beat them.

Cue Scotland win.

 

[Modo]

Young out, then Carrick....
Gollum has learned from the master.

 

[Dirkus_Circus]

Henry Winter ‏@henrywinter 33m
Good-humoured outside Wembley currently. #scot fans serenading amused #eng fans with 'you're just a county in Wales'

 

[Dirkus_Circus]

I'm gonna laugh so goddamn much if Scotland somehow wins this.

 

[Dirkus_Circus]

 

[Oncy]

I fucking hate the sweats.
And I hate this friendly three days before the premiership kicks off.
Retards

 

[King Binny]

Robbie Fowler ‏@Robbie9Fowler

4m​

Hoping Rickie lambert gets on tonight and notches... Deserves a cap, and fingers crossed for a goal #goodluckricardinho