Good point well made.........it does pan out for a reason, ie Baines did indeed play wing at Wigan, but he has gone to left back to improve him as a player. Ie if he stayed at Wigan as a left midfielder we wouldn't be having a debate on him as an England player. Also Bale played left back at Southampton and Paul Scholes used to play as a striker coming through the ranks at United. It evolves all for a reason.Baines started out as a midfielder at Wigan and he does provide much of Everton's impetus in building attacks the way that he bombs forward for them, so theoretically he could play in an advanced wide left position, much like Coentrao at Real Madrid and for Portugal can play either role. That said, I'm not sure it's something you can be certain Baines would be comfortable doing and I also think that it works better if the player in the wide left position cuts inside to allow either Baines or Cole to make the overlapping runs that they are both famed for. Arsenal worked this to good effect when they had Robert Pires playing in front of Cole and did exactly that. Of the current England squad players, Adam Lallana could possibly play that role effectively if Hodgson takes him to Brazil.