Beckham has always suffered from roughly equal measures of excessive praise and excessive criticism. He's never been as good as some make out, he's never been as bad, or as responsible for England's failings, as others seem to believe.

I would have taken him to the WC because of the variety that he provides, but his non appearance shouldnt be a huge factor. He may have provided experience in the dressing room but that could easily have been offset by the circus that inevitably surrounds him.

I've always thought him to be a genuinely nice bloke, so I've a great deal of sympathy for him this morning.

Yeah I'm gutted for him too, as I would with any player trying to make the squad. But he really isn't needed. We have far better players that play his position.

Phil Brown given the bullet

Gardening leave according to BBC.

Same thing. Anybody watching Sky Sports News? Wonderful close up of this physio

Think Beckham's absence is not necessarily a bad thing for England in the grand scheme of things.

I'd look to take SWP, Young, J Cole and maybe Walcott.

Brown's gardening leave will have something to do with the training ground incident last week, one would reckon?

Joe Cole? Seriously? You must be trollin'.

I'd take Adam Johnson ahead of SWP

There's another here.

Wayne is playing magnificiently and the England team should change tactics

We don't need a pudding up there with him like Heskey, We should adopt the United formation for big games in which Rooney plays up top with pace on either flank in the shape of players like Young, Downing, Milner, Johnson, SWP, Walcott

Barry anchoring with Lampard and Gerrard offering Wayne the support

Thought Scum have been playing 442? Definitely agree though, try and give him the exact role he's playing at the moment, try and get his Scum form in and Ingurland shirt.

Go on, name more than 2 for us.

Hull can only justify this sacking with the appointment of Mark Hughes. But with the names being touted, the likes of Coppell, Southgate and Megson. There is no hope.

He doesn't need to. If we have 2 better right wingers than Beckham he shouldn't be going to the World Cup, simple as that.

IMO, Lennon and Milner are both better than him nowadays, so Beckham should have only gone if Lennon isn't fit in time.

They can justify it quite easily with the list of results over the past 14 months. The timing is the only strange thing.