Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="ninthcouncil" data-source="post: 239522" data-attributes="member: 2566">It's a problem in the English team. All the players seem sort of self-contained. Where you'd often look for the leadership - central defence and midfield - you find quiet guys like Sol Campbell and Paul Scholes, admirable in their own way but not the sort of characters you need to cajole/bully/inspire a team into that little bit extra that turns games around. Where is Tony Adams when you need him?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Furthermore, without Gerrard the midfield lacks imagination. When he was injured for Liverpool last season, they all too often resorted to banging the ball hopefully upfield in the hope that Owen would be able to do something with it. The same thing seems to happen to England. They also badly lack a forward with the guile and intelligence to play in the deeper position. Sheringham is at the end of his career, and Emile Heskey <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> is not the answer...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ninthcouncil, post: 239522, member: 2566"] It's a problem in the English team. All the players seem sort of self-contained. Where you'd often look for the leadership - central defence and midfield - you find quiet guys like Sol Campbell and Paul Scholes, admirable in their own way but not the sort of characters you need to cajole/bully/inspire a team into that little bit extra that turns games around. Where is Tony Adams when you need him?:D Furthermore, without Gerrard the midfield lacks imagination. When he was injured for Liverpool last season, they all too often resorted to banging the ball hopefully upfield in the hope that Owen would be able to do something with it. The same thing seems to happen to England. They also badly lack a forward with the guile and intelligence to play in the deeper position. Sheringham is at the end of his career, and Emile Heskey :confused: is not the answer... [/QUOTE]

Verification