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Abort, retry, fail
How many times... Look. At. The. Quality. Of. The. Opposition. You can fool yourselves, but you are fooling nobody else. England are taking a backward step by even contemplating playing Heskey. Tho feel free to carry on believing. Obviously
I am not sure why picking Heskey is a backward step. A fair amount of players spend some time in international wilderness. Suspensions and injuries dictated that we needed to call up a player in the shape of Heskey and he has done a very good job. A real step backwards would be failing to qualify for the tournament.
You are right about the quality of opposition and I can't remember the last time England did a double over a team like France. There is no point comparing results anyway, as there are many different factors.
I hope that Scotland do qualify. Always nice to have a gaggle of home nations in a tournament.