Jonjo Shelvey-Liverpool?
Sturridge-Chelsea?
Cahill-Bolton?

Id throw these into your team too.

Correct

It was only for England schools - was Salford schools he played for and was then eligible to be picked for England schools.
Not sure if it's on uchoob but there is some TV footage of him playing for both Salford & England schoolboys.

And whilst there are some good youngsters on the list a few posts up, it ain't exciting players England needs. It's a couple of boring, barely noticeable players who are comfortable with possession of the ball and can distribute it simply to the players around them without resorting to 50-yard lumps upfield.

Adam Johnson could easily be England's star player if given the chance. Robben-esque.

I think he's alot like Hleb actually

Where England have badly, badly missed Owen Hargreaves IMO.

When he's fit, twice the player of Gareth Barry.

But it is, it was in SL until they brought the rule in about only being able to go back to the last play the ball and that works well. Football doesn't have that break in play that is almost guaranteed to be within a minute of the try.



Why not? They are incidents that happen in the build up to a goal, where is your cut off point? Do you allow a foul that immediately allows a cross into the box that leads to a goal, but not a foul that means the player can head it into the goal?



See above example as to how it does.



I agree, it should be brought in.



Nope, it's a p1ss poor excuse.



Nothing, it should be brought in, but IMO the way you propose won't work.

That's why I think the NFL way is the best way to introduce it. Give each manager a set amount of challenges, if they are right they keep them, if they are wrong and use it frivolously they lose one. That would allow contentious decisions to be looked at but should prevent requests for [ieverything[/i to be looked at.

Well at least you think it should be brought in, in some form.
I don't know what the format should be, and I can see your concerns.
But these are details...the fundamental thrust is we must stop cheating like handling the ball into the net, diving to gain a penalty and we must stop disallowing perfectly good goals.

At the end of the day, someone will still have to make a judgment and so it won't be perfect....but I think it will be less imperfect.

I dunno. I think he's best as a winger, isolating full backs, cutting in or taking it to the byline. Hlen I feel was at his best in the middle, running at the centre backs with the ball glued to his feet then playing others in. Hleb's biggest problem was he never shot/scored enough, I think Johnson has the ability to score a lot of goals from the wings, particularly if he plays on the right more than the left.

England need a midfielder to operate in 'the hole', I think Wilshere will be the player who eventually does this and he'll do it well, but playing 4-4-2 isn't working. The 4-2-3-1, 4-5-1 or 4-4-1-1, whatever you want to call it, seems to be the way to go at international level. Brazil use it, Spain are now kinda using it, Germany use it, the Argie's kinda use it at times. But having two, disciplined midfielders, one preferably a ball winner, the other a 'quarterback', seems to be the way to go, with a playmaker just ahead of them. I've said before, I'd love to see Hargreaves and Carrick together for England, but I question Carrick's ability to pull the strings.

Carrick's not good enough, Barry would be better alongside Hargreaves IMO. I accept he had a poor World Cup, but he isn't fit.