BensGrandad
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Willshire, Oxo Chamber pot and Sterling should not be included, leave it to those who got there.
If the answer is 'play the best team possible' why wasn't that the answer in the Qualifiers when the Prem League prima donnas couldn't be arsed? Now there's a chance of silverware the greedy little beggars want to come back to the squad that was previously beneath them. That will do the morale of the qualifying youngsters the world of good - not! And with a fractured squad, no doubt the team will lose anyway and then go back to play with the big boys. They've moved on now and Southgate should carry on with the squad that got them there.Play the best team possible. Isn't that what every team should always be doing?
If we do well - or even, miracle of miracles - win this tournament, with half the team going on to play in the European Cup finals, and then the next world cup, how useful the experience of tournament football will be. Of course you'll have to feel sorry for JFC and other lads who may miss out - but that's life.
Play the best team possible. Isn't that what every team should always be doing?
17/11/2014
England Under-21s squandered a two-goal lead as their 11-game winning run was ended with a 3-2 defeat by France.
Gareth Southgate's side led when Harry Kane lifted a clever finish past French keeper Alphonse Areola before tapping a second from Thomas Ince's cross-shot.
But Arsenal's Yaya Sanogo scored two tap-ins for France to level by half-time and substitute Kingsley Coman struck a winner into the top corner.
Danny Ings headed wide and England suffered a first defeat in over a year.
Should have started with JFC!
If the answer is 'play the best team possible' why wasn't that the answer in the Qualifiers when the Prem League prima donnas couldn't be arsed? .
France U21's are probably the best in the world, it's a shame we squandered a two goal lead but encouraging we got that in the first place.
Alphonse Areola
I know - just using a little dramatic licence to playfully suggest playing one of our own from the start would have improved the team and the result.They were 2-1 up when he came on!
Because when the prima donnas couldn't be arsed, it therefore wasn't possible to put them in the team.If the answer is 'play the best team possible' why wasn't that the answer in the Qualifiers when the Prem League prima donnas couldn't be arsed?
I did not realise that Phil Jones is still eligible so our team could look something like this:
Butland
Stones
Chambers
Jones
Shaw
Wilshere
Oxlade-Chamberlain
Sterling
Barkley
Redmond
Berahino
Jon Flanagan and Carl Jenkinson also have a full cap, but would be eligible.
I would argue that that side would do considerably better than the line-up earlier this week:
ENGLAND XI: Bond, Keane, Garbutt, Chalobah, Gibson, Lascelles, Ince, Pritchard, Kane, Carroll (c), Redmond
I did not realise that Phil Jones is still eligible so our team could look something like this:
Butland
Stones
Chambers
Jones
Shaw
Wilshere
Oxlade-Chamberlain
Sterling
Barkley
Redmond
Berahino
Jon Flanagan and Carl Jenkinson also have a full cap, but would be eligible.
I would argue that that side would do considerably better than the line-up earlier this week:
ENGLAND XI: Bond, Keane, Garbutt, Chalobah, Gibson, Lascelles, Ince, Pritchard, Kane, Carroll (c), Redmond
Seem to remember us in the last (or 2nd to last) U21 tournament going into it in cracking form , only to flop and be unable to keep hold of the ball during it.
We'll see