Here's my first proper world cup blog for SWFC.co.uk and the official FIFA world cup website ... I'll be feeling sorry for you over the next month or so if you're not a football fan ...
So, Rio is gone and we're looking to Ledley "the modern Darren "sick note" Anderton" King to be the solid centre half ... it just doesn't add up ... I've always been wary of Mr. King at the heart of the English defence ... the man can only train one day a week in case of rupturing or breaking something or just wearing something out that he needs to have his fitness and stamina for the weekend's game ... even still he lacks yards (not just one yard) of pace it takes to cut it against the world's top strikers ...
I am quite pleased to see Michael Dawson on the plane to South Africa ... I remember him rising through the ranks at Nottingham Forest and having future England captain written all over him ... will he realise his potential energy some day and turn it into kinetic captain material ...
And what about Capello's admission of never watching Darren Bent ... shocking, particularly for those not inclined to the cumbersome dodderings(?) of Emile Heskey ... scandalous ...
And Stevie G as captain? I must say I'm a Frankie Lampard fan personally ... but could he cut it as captain ... maybe that responsibility is the thing that will make Gerrard for England like he's wearing a red shirt with a Liver Bird on it ... something we've all been waiting for...
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