GAMBLOG UK - WE ARE ENGLAND - England 3 Estonia 0 (13 oct, 07)

Is anyone ever going to question Steven Gerrard's place in the England team???

http://cwoff.com/blog/sport/football/2007-10-13/england-3-0-estonia-ratings/

By  Anonymous, at 6:12 PM  

For me to refer back to, and anyone else interested 1 day, here is what anonymous thinks of Gerrard's latest display. I believe the last commenter was the editor of Cwoff.com

Stephen Gerrard
Steven Gerrard - 4.5/10

Very poor. Created nothing (that was onside) and gave the ball away again and again and again and even spurned the best chance of the second half. His typical - even good - performances involve losing the ball frequently but of late, even his shooting and passing have deserted him. For all his qualities - which people project from his occasional spectacular performances for his club - I simply do not believe he is good enough for this team. Now that Barry has conclusively proven his (and his position?s) worth, there is only room for once offensive, central midfielder and right now, that should not be Gerrard. Lampard has seldom been given the licence and team position that Gerrard has continually been afforded, it is time that he is. Lampard seldom loses the ball with short passes or is caught in possession, he shoots whenever he can and gets in good positions. With England?s width working so well, the occasional assist or goal from Gerrard simply doesn?t outweigh the negatives he always brings. If people questioned Beckham?s place in the team then how can they not question Gerrard?s?

By  joeyl, at 12:25 PM  

This is England?s real opportunity to now break the mould of mediocrity which plagues The Enlish football Executives, management and team. Lets have a clean sweep and build for the future. I say not around sentimental values but hard business and marketing values
Is this all Steve McClaren?s fault, the players under any other manger would have struggled ,under any other executive would have triumphed. The FA set the standard and it is pretty poor, let the people who have most to learn set the standard our greatest and best premiership managers, tempered with a desire to see any home grown talent develop. So limit foreign players, fans are paying for a lot in terms of their pocket and their national team?s to see club teams that really don?t really fair much better than other country?s. What do we fans want good football , no I think we want good quality passionate football.
The answer is simple recruit world class coaches for home grown talent, cap foreign players in the premiership , say 80% as we have to learn, put a marketing manager with a long term vision supported by premiership managers.
Take this failure and turn it into a result 5 Nations tournament next year the 5th Being America or make it the Anglo America?s to pull in Brazil etc. Europe is only one stage a bigger stage as Beckenham has shown is America and one wonders if the tie is right for America to take on us completively I think so. The resulting revenue for FA clubs, managers and players will make business sense and long term as well if done right , but the current FA are simply too pathetic to take it on.

By  ZAKS, at 1:01 AM