Players that should retire from international football

[Silent Bob]

I would like to see Stuart Pearce take over,

 

[Theatre of Trees]

I'd imagine there will be a number of retirements. Looking at the squad for 2010 only 5 of the 23 (Johnson, Lennon, Rooney, Milner, Hart) will be below 30 by the time the 2014 World Cup arrives. I would personally scrap the current lot and start bedding in the younger generation for Euro 2012 as a dry run for the next World Cup. If we persist with current generation for the next Euros it will leave us in deep trouble for the next World Cup.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

John Terry is a f***ing disgrace.

I hope he never wears an England shirt again

 

[SirDouglasLoft]

John Terry is a f***ing disgrace.

I hope he never wears an England shirt again

Granted he had a shocking game, but he was not our worst player of the tournament, at least he showed he cared today and was actually trying, which is more you can say for other players and the 'captain'.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Lampard. Yeah he "scored" today but he is f***ing abysmal in an England shirt. Darren Bent plays well for his club too but you don't see him going to the world cup - what's the difference?

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

I've always been a Gareth Barry fan but after today I don't think he should ever play for England again. I don't think i've ever seen a player get so embarassed on the pitch before, I felt sorry for him.

Rooney was a disgrace the whole tournament, the fact he was talked about as being world class and up there with Messi and Ronaldo before the tournament started has proved to be a complete joke. He is not in the same league as Messi, Ronaldo Villa or Forlan. Ashley Cole is the only world class player we have.

This isn't a knee jerk reaction as I have said it all tournament, but I would really like a lot of the squad who have had plenty of opportunities but proven to be failures at international level time and again, to be dropped and not picked again. This should include:
Green, James, Ferdiand, Upson, Carragher, Terry, Lampard, Barry, Gerrard, Wright Phillips, Crouch and Heskey.

I think we have the talent to replace this lot (well they can't do any worse) and we have 4 years to bed them in before the next world cup. And trying the youngsters has clearly worked for Germany.

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

given capellos's mantra of only picking players in form-what the f*** was heskey and
wright-philips doing on the the plane!!

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Granted he had a shocking game, but he was not our worst player of the tournament, at least he showed he cared today and was actually trying, which is more you can say for other players and the 'captain'.

I dunno, The whole press thing, shocking when it mattered and I still think the Bridge thing had an impact on the squad

 

[Curious Orange]

Bollocks to players "retiring" from international football, just tell the useless twats that they're not being picked again because they've unequivalently proved that they're not up to it.

 

[Albion 4ever]

I think the following should not be considered for selection for England again on the basis that they will be even more past their best by Euro 2012:
David James (41 in 2012)
Rob Green (32)
Jamie Carragher (34)
Matt Upson (33)
Frank Lampard (34)
Emile Heskey (34)

I would keep the rest and blood a few younger players. A change of formation to be more flexible (4-2-3-1) rather than a rigid 4-4-2 would solve a lot of the problems.

 

[Gerbil]

Rooney.

FFS do me a favour.
Yes he's had a bad tournament, But to say he should retire is ridiculous.

 

[BensGrandad]

I've always been a Gareth Barry fan but after today I don't think he should ever play for England again. I don't think i've ever seen a player get so embarassed on the pitch before, I felt sorry for him.

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I thought that he was one of our better players in the tournament.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Rooney was a disgrace the whole tournament, the fact he was talked about as being world class and up there with Messi and Ronaldo before the tournament started has proved to be a complete joke. He is not in the same league as Messi, Ronaldo Villa or Forlan.

Spot on. And yet the English media can't mention Forlan without harping back to his failure at Man United, as if that's the only thing that matters in his career because it was in the Premiership. It's this stupid tunnel-vision that gets us thinking our players are "world-class", with plenty of evidence to the contrary every time we appear in an international tournament.

 

[Trigger]

Rooney, ****.

 

[folkestonesgull]

it would save us £5.5m a year minimum which the FA could spend on developing grass roots football.

lets be honest if Maradona can do it so can psycho...

 

[Rookie]

Build for the next world cup now, much like the Germans are apparently doing. Anyone who will not make the next tournament (i.e players over 29/30 now) should be discarded.

 

[Lurker]

David James because he's too old to even think about the next tournament.
Jamie Carragher because he's too slow to play top level football, plus he's no spring chicken either.
SWP because he's not good enough to play international football.
Michael Carrick because he always goes missing in the big games for his club, so there's no reason to think he'd cope any better with big International games.
Emily Heskey because he's crap.......

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

I thought that he was one of our better players in the tournament.

 

[vulture]

heskey f***ing 7 goals in 63 games

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

I'd imagine there will be a number of retirements. Looking at the squad for 2010 only 5 of the 23 (Johnson, Lennon, Rooney, Milner, Hart) will be below 30 by the time the 2014 World Cup arrives. I would personally scrap the current lot and start bedding in the younger generation for Euro 2012 as a dry run for the next World Cup. If we persist with current generation for the next Euros it will leave us in deep trouble for the next World Cup.

100% totally agree with this.