Sven Should Just Pick The Winning Team In Division One For England's Squad
As is usually the case when Sven-Goran Eriksson makes a decision, I'm glad to be a United States supporter.
I don't think Sven is qualified to coach the Columbus Crew, let alone England and today was a confirmation!
But I would like to thank Sven for doing one thing - choosing England's version of Freddy Adu for a starting spot. One of England's four strike choices is 17-year old Theo Walcott. Theo is supposed to be, well, the second coming of Wayne Rooney (sad when you're already being replaced at 20 by the next wunderkind). But while he's on the books at Arsenal, he hasn't played a single minute in the Premiership.
He's spent most of this season at Southampton where he scored four goals.
Now to be fair, he only played half the season there so he was on pace for eight goals in the Colaship! Meanwhile, Darren Bent...
Oh never mind!
The stupidest thing is that Sven decided this when he woke up this morning. Nice to know his final selections were based on a whim, eh?
Another funny fact from this whole selection. If Wayne Rooney doesn't play, none of England's three strike choices (the other two being Peter Crouch and Michael Owen) scored as many goals in England's top flight as Brian McBride. :)
Oh and one more note - serves Shawn Wright-Phillips right. If he were still playing for Manchester City, he probably would have made the squad.
Hope he enjoy sitting at home thinking about his three starts for Chelsea and counting his money.
I have no idea if I'm supporting Preston North End or Leeds United in the second leg of their Colaship semi-final right now. PNE is my favorite Colaship team due to last year's support of Eddie Lewis.
But now Eddie Lewis plays for Leeds and there are no Yanks on PNE.
Therefore, now that I think about it, I'm pulling for PNE because Eddie Lewis needs to get himself to United States national team camp to get more practice at left back.
Oh, and Watford looks like they're going to cruise to Cardiff after beating Crystal Palace 3-0 last week.
If they make it to the Premiership next year, however, they are going right back down. Then again, I said that about Wigan, eh?
I don't think Sven is qualified to coach the Columbus Crew, let alone England and today was a confirmation!
But I would like to thank Sven for doing one thing - choosing England's version of Freddy Adu for a starting spot. One of England's four strike choices is 17-year old Theo Walcott. Theo is supposed to be, well, the second coming of Wayne Rooney (sad when you're already being replaced at 20 by the next wunderkind). But while he's on the books at Arsenal, he hasn't played a single minute in the Premiership.
He's spent most of this season at Southampton where he scored four goals.
Now to be fair, he only played half the season there so he was on pace for eight goals in the Colaship! Meanwhile, Darren Bent...
Oh never mind!
The stupidest thing is that Sven decided this when he woke up this morning. Nice to know his final selections were based on a whim, eh?
Another funny fact from this whole selection. If Wayne Rooney doesn't play, none of England's three strike choices (the other two being Peter Crouch and Michael Owen) scored as many goals in England's top flight as Brian McBride. :)
Oh and one more note - serves Shawn Wright-Phillips right. If he were still playing for Manchester City, he probably would have made the squad.
Hope he enjoy sitting at home thinking about his three starts for Chelsea and counting his money.
I have no idea if I'm supporting Preston North End or Leeds United in the second leg of their Colaship semi-final right now. PNE is my favorite Colaship team due to last year's support of Eddie Lewis.
But now Eddie Lewis plays for Leeds and there are no Yanks on PNE.
Therefore, now that I think about it, I'm pulling for PNE because Eddie Lewis needs to get himself to United States national team camp to get more practice at left back.
Oh, and Watford looks like they're going to cruise to Cardiff after beating Crystal Palace 3-0 last week.
If they make it to the Premiership next year, however, they are going right back down. Then again, I said that about Wigan, eh?
posted by incendiarymind at 11:51 AM
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OK, so Brian McBride has scored more premier league goals than Owen, Crouch and Walcott.
Well, I'll give you Theo Walcott. Not having played any prem league games at all, he is a genuine gamble. Personally, I don't expect him to set the tournament on fire, or even to feature for more than a few minutes at the end of a game already won.
After taking an eon to settle into the side, Peter Crouch has scored 10 league and cup goals for Liverpool this season, as many as McBride has for Fulham. His return is less impressive than McBride's though as he took 41 starts to hit this number compared to BMcB's 29. Crouch (and his teammates) would argue that the big fella brings a lot more than goals to his team, but that is hard to quantify, so better discount that. He has also scored twice in two World Cup qualifying games for England, I don't know McBride's WCQ record this season.
Owen has, of course, been off his pins for most of this season and is only now getting back into training. This is potentially as big a problem for England as Rooney's injury, but hopefully he will be fit and comfortable before the tournament begins. Anyway, Owen has scored only seven goals for Newcastle this seaason, in nine starts before his injury on New Years Eve, a remarkable goal every 1.3 games (compare that to McBride's record of a smidgen better than one goal every three games).
You can prove anything with statistics, but would you really rather have Brian McBride in your team than the former European Golden Boot winner with La Liga's best goals per minute record 2004/05, the England national team's fifth highest goalscorer of all time, scorer of a memorable hat-trick against the Germans four years ago etc etc???
Really?
Yorkie. I'm just taking the piss, you know. Of course I'd choose Rooney over McBride. Now I would take McBride every time over Crouch. Every time. I mean, you'd have to pay me (a bribe, not just to be the manager) to select Crouch for England were I in Sven's shoes.
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