I have always lked Rio Ferdinand from his Hammers days through his Leeds days and even now he's at United but I'm getting sick of hearing his name now :(The parasite scum press and media cannot talk about England without keep bringing up "the Rio question" every time, and I for one have just about had enough of it.
Why bother paying an England manager to pick a team when all that useless bunch of cunts know better?
We all know the real reason he wasn't considered but if he had wanted a divided dressing room he might as well have called up Joey Barton to replace Lampard and if the experience reason is key why wasn't David James called up to replace Ruddy.
Don't forget Capello took Rio to the last World cup and he didn't even make it to the first match before he was injured, Alex Ferguson says he can't play twice a week, he hasn't played for England for over a year and has only made nine England appearances in the four years since the last Euro's.
Is he better than Martin Kelly? probably but I reckon Kelly might be a better right back when injury prone Glen Johnson gets a knock at some stage, when Lampard got injured why wasn't Mark Noble called up or even ageing Paul Scholes? there are probably dozens of players better than Jordan Henderson but there wasn't a story there.
The only way I can see the press giving Hodgson a break is if we win the tournament with substitute defender Martin Kelly hitting the winner .. here's hoping :)
The players called up were all from Hodgson's stand-by list. Whether players such as Kelly and Henderson should have been on that list is another matter
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know players like Carrick and Richards didn't want to go on the stand by list so that's why they were ignored, Kelly was with the team in Norway which is why he got the call.
ReplyDeleteIt just seems that everytime I see an interview with Hodgson or an England player they never ask anything interesting but just keep going on about bloody Rio Ferdinand :(
He was left out, so get over it.