I suspect that Allardyce'll be given his marching orders in 2018 to leave the door open for Rooney to replace him. That certainly fits in with The FA's bizarre fanaticism about Rooney.
Four goals and six bookings in the Holland U21s vs Belarus U21s, which featured among other things... * A Belorussian attempting to connect with a diving header on a Dutch defender yet somehow getting a penalty for it for 1-0 * Some lovely trickery from Ricardo Kishna leading to former target Anwar El Ghazi's header to make it 1-1 * Neither team showing any competence for defending set pieces for 2-1 and 2-2
I'm trying to work out why Lionel Messi went for an AVB beard combined with an Abel Xavier hairstyle... please log in to view this image
Luke Shaw allegedly withdrawn for "precautionary measures" (first "and so it begins" of the international season ?? ) . Is there any FB in the squad who can start today ahead of Rose/Walker ??
A Man Utd player pulling out of an international game with a dubious injury? I don't believe it for a second!
Shaw's got previous anyway, he once ducked out of an international break a few years back due to injury and was partying until 4am in a nightclub in Guildford on the night of the game. Presumably the jagerbombs helped his recovery.
Which Spurs players will get slagged off for playing for England this weekend? Four starters and Alli on the bench, presumably coming on at some point.
If you can change the on-pitch rules so that there can be more than one captain, then the England manager can name every Man Utd player as captain for the match well before the training sessions begin.
I wonder why they called up a player to be 3rd choice goalkeeper but didn't call up someone to be 2nd choice LB?
If I reference the usual Spurs lineup, which England player is playing a role akin to : - Dembele - Eriksen/Lamela/Alli
Sterling and to a lesser extent Lallana continue to play for England like Lamela did in his first 2 years at Spurs.
Went out for a nice walk today and got my boots nice and muddy. They're still drying even now. Might go watch them dry some more.
The effective difference between the Germany result and since then as far as starting XIs go is Alli and Welbeck instead of Rooney and Sterling. Hmm ...
