Players that should retire from international football

[vulture]

and fat frank

 

[RexCathedra]

To be fair to Carragher, he had retired, or 'retired', once already, and was asked to un-retire, more or less, by Capello.

 

[folkestonesgull]

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.

I agree with this to an extent, though there is nothing wrong with having a couple of 30+ players in the team - look at Klose yeterday.

As for the manager - if all of our players have to be english I believe the rule for international football should be that the manager is also from the same nation. Thus the success of a team purely depends on their national talent throughout the squad and management.