What in the world is wrong with Eriksson?

1. He names Walcott, who hasn't ever started a big or important match ever.

2. He names only 4 strikers, 2 are injured with only 1 (Owen) of those likely to be healed in time for the start of the tournament, 1 (Walcott) who I always thought was a right winger, and the other 1 (Crouch) who would find it difficult to get in my sunday league team.

3. Ledley King is left out, imo this is like leaving Joe Cole out. King has many uses, centre back, sweeper, anchor man, centre midfield, and is far more effiecient than most of our other defenders.

4. He picks Jenas ahead of Kevin Nolan, Nigel Reo Coker, and Joey Barton. Jenas is one of the most over-rated players I've ever seen.

5. No place for Defoe or Bent, 2 of the best goalscorers we have.

6. He names Campbell, who obviously has some phychological problems at the moment, he's just come back from a break down, and looks no where near match or mentally fit.

Picking an injured Wayne Rooney shows every other country in this thing how desperate we truly are. I'm surprised he didn't name Bobby Moore. And I was really looking forward to this years World Cup.

 

The most worrying thing about him picking Walcott is that Eriksson is paid a MASSIVE salary to do this job full-time and yet has never seen Walcott play a full match - he's just been along to watch him in training a couple of times.

I think Eriksson should be sacked right now - he obviously doesn't know, or care, what he's doing.

The squad he picked is ridiculous!! He said afterwards it's important to have an attacking squad... so he picks 2 fit strikers!

And what's all this about leaving out Wright-Phillips .....

 

Yep..


Give Stevie McClaren the job right now!

Let him field the team he had for Middlesborough's last game of the season..


I seriously think Ericcson has fucked us up as pay back for what the British press did to him. On that basis alone, we should never have trusted him to give 100% to our national team just as he's walking out the back door.

 

Rooney spends twice a day in an oxygen tank and he's had/having laser treatment on his metatarsal. Apparently the recovery time for the treatment he is getting works wonders. Many racers have come out worse, had the same treatment as Rooney and recovered within weeks. There is still hope for our man. I say yes it is right for him to take Rooney. If they find that there is no chance of Rooney participating in the world cup then the manager is allowed to exchange him for another striker 24hrs before the 1st game of the tournament. It all looks promising though. After the 4-0 victory over Charlton over the weekend Rooney was walking around the pitch doing the lap of honour WITHOUT his crutches. Bare in mind he had only broke his metatarsal a week ago.

The reason he only picked 4 strikers, with Defoe on standby is because Joe Cole can also play as a striker aswell as playing the midfield role so technically we have 5 providing he doesn't get injured.

 

I've always chosen motorola - they are so much better than Ericson (sp - i know)
For one motorola manage your contacts better etc

 

Now you see what I'm talking about? Owen has damaged his ACL and is out for months, Rooney is still not 100%, if Crouch gets injured now we're screwed. How hard would it have been to bring Defoe, Andy Johnson, or Darren Bent, along from the start. You look at all the countries excelling at the moment Germany/Argentina/Spain they all have top goalscoring strikers Miroslav Klose/Hernan Crespo/Fernando Torres, and they all have world class strikers backing them up.

Don't tell me about Walcott, Joe Cole, or Gerrard playing up front, they're great players don't get me wrong, but they're hardly top marksmen up front.

You can say McClaren isn't gonna do a better job than Sven, but I'm sure he wouldn't have screwed up the striker situation like Eriksson has.

 

Basically we lack real top-quality experienced (at international level) strikers. If you compare our subs bench to Spain's, with Raul, Reyes, Fabregas and shitloads of other top players, if people get injured or carded we're pretty fucked.