I thought this might test a few brains. We need to pick a team for the Euro's! You can only have 1 player from each of the below teams, all positions must be covered for a starting line up (4-4-2), they must of course all be English, the other 8 will be the subs and can be for any position. You are the Manager! ARSENAL ASTON VILLA BLACKBURN BOLTON CHELSEA EVERTON FULHAM LIVERPOOL MAN CITY MAN U NEWCASTLE NORWICH QPR SPURS STOKE SUNDERLAND SWANSEA WBA WIGAN WOLVES Have fun. ILD OTBC
does it matter of they are injured or not? i suppose it does, otherwise it wouldn't work! that rules out jack wilshere then. ok, i'll have a think...
Challenge accepted! I like these sort of threads! Keeper: John Ruddy Rightback: Micah Richards Leftback: Ashley Cole Centreback: Michael Dawson Centreback: Phil Jagielka Right Winger:Alex Oxlade Chamberlain Defensive Midfield: Lee Cattermole Centre Midfield: Leon Britton Centre Midfield: Steven Gerrard Left Winger: Matthew Etherington Forward: Wayne Rooney Sub: Darren Bent Sub: Scott Dann Sub: Danny Murphy Sub: Danny Guthrie Sub: Chris Eagles Sub: Shaun Wright Phillips Sub: Ben Foster Sub: Ben Watson Sub: Jamie O'Hara
right, this was NOT easy... i tried to make the team balanced! alex oxlade-chamberlain stephen warnock paul robinson (i managed to get him out of retirement!) mark davies ashley cole leon osman danny murphy andy carroll joe hart wayne rooney danny simpson ryan bennett nedum onuoha scott parker matthew etherington kieron richardson steven caulker (technically spurs but on loan) liam ridgewell (wba have no english players!) ben watson (neither do wigan!!) matt jarvis team would be: hart simpson bennett caulker cole oxlade-chamberlain parker osman etherington carroll rooney
Something like this assuming injuries and retirements are not involved GK: Ruddy (NCFC) RB: Simpson (NUFC) CB: Cahill (CFC) CB: Lescott (MCFC) LB: Baines (EFC) RM: Jarvis (WWFC) CM: Parker (THFC) CM: Gerrard (LFC) LM: Ox (AFC) ST: Rooney (MUFC) ST: Graham (SCFC) Subs: Stockdale (FFC), Cattermole (SAFC), Crouch (SCFC), Watson or Moses if he can still play for England (WAFC), Davis.M (BWFC), Ferdinand (QPR), Dunn (BRFC), Warnock (AVFC), Ridgewell (WBA)
Hart (City) Cole (Chelsea) Shawcross (Stoke) Simpson (Newcastle) Johnson (Liverpool) Oxlade-Chambelain (Arsenal) Parker (Tottenham) Osman (Everton) Matt Jarvis (Wolves) Rooney (Manchester United) Holt (Norwich City) Shaun Wright-Phillips (QPR), Kirkland (Wigan), Bent (Aston Villa), Dann (Blackburn), Eagles (Bolton), Murphy (Fulham), Bridge (Sunderland), Sinclair (Swansea), Foster (WBA)
Tragically that is probably a better line-up than the one which will start the Euro's. Maybe you should consider a career change.
Really struggled with this! Arsenal - Oxlade-Chamberlain Aston Villa - Bent Blackburn - Dann Bolton - Eagles Chelsea - A Cole Everton - Osman Fulham - Murphy Liverpool - Carroll Manchester City - Hart Manchester United - Rooney Newcastle - S Taylor Norwich - R Bennett QPR - Onuoha Stoke - Crouch Sunderland - Richardson Swansea - Allen Tottenham - Walker West Brom - Foster Wigan - Watson Wolves - M Jarvis GK - Hart RB - Walker CB - Dann CB - S Taylor LB - A Cole RM - Oxlade-Chamberlain CM - Osman CM - Allen LM - M Jarvis ST - Rooney ST - Crouch
Haha I might take a few more coaching badges, I will take over after the next world cup. England will, once again dominate world football
My Best Combination: -----------------------------------------Foster------------------------------------------------ Richards---------------Cahill--------------------R.Bennett--------------------------Baines -----------------------------------------Parker------------------------------------------------ Jarvis------------------Gerrard---------------------Oxlade-Chamberlain------------Sinclair ----------------------------------------Rooney------------------------------------------------- Subs: GK Kirkland (severe lack of options, will the rules permit me Robert Green instead?) RB Ryan Taylor CB Scott Dann (NOT SUB) CB Zat Knight CB Ryan Shawcross CM Danny Murphy CM Joey Barton (refuse to have Zamora as a principle, will rules permit me Joe Cole instead?) (NOT SUB) FW Frazier Campbell (lack of options at Sunderland, will rules permit me Rickie Lambert/Jordan Rhodes instead?) FW Darren Bent
Foster, Richards, Cahill, Shawcross, Baines, Parker, Jarvis, Gerrard, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Sinclair, Rooney Subs: Green, R.Taylor, Bennett, Murphy, J.Cole, J. Rhodes, Bent This team would be Champions in a tournament amongst us Norwich fans.
joe allen is welsh wonky. not sure how goldeneye managed to sneak scottish-international-and-league-one-huddersfield-striker jordan rhodes in either
He is better than Frazier Campbell Seriously though Wigan...what an awful pool of english talent to choose from!
Great 1st XI, but I really do have to point out that besides Crouch the rest of the bench offers precisely zero threat!!!
Sadly there is very little to pick from in those teams. I would have Bent but he is injured and could have Campbell from Sunderland sadly very few options. In some ways it would be easier to do this for championship sides.
Blackburn, Fulham, Bolton, Wigan, Villa and Sunderland do not offer much in the way of good English players, whereas Norwich offer at the very least Ruddy and Holt.
It is actually quite amazing how few good English players some of these teams have. Whereas Norwich have a host of very good young English talent.
