What might have been.....

[honourablegeorge]

Partridge, Mellor, Kirkland....

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/2641675.stm

[Guest Prongsy]

What a find!

 

That's golden.

[Rich Gobey]

Actually, it's suprising how many of those players from that forcasted team are now regualr England players. Only Anton Ferinand, Dunn and Taylor aren't regular internationals and Kirkland still has an outside chance of being so.

[yellow jumper]

agree. predicting the england team in five years time isn't easy.

[Cobs]

agree. predicting the england team in five years time isn't easy.

deffo Gareth Bale at left back

[Gomez]

Actually, it's suprising how many of those players from that forcasted team are now regualr England players. Only Anton Ferinand, Dunn and Taylor aren't regular internationals and Kirkland still has an outside chance of being so.

 

So 7 of them are regulars, and 5 where regulars (and young) when it was written, and as it was only a month before Rooney's debut, it was hardly a act of prophesy.

 

In fact they only really predicted SWP.

[yellow jumper]

seems obvious with the benefit of hindsight. there's plenty of young players on the fringes of the england team right now.

 

in five years time the keeper, most of the midfield and at least one of the strikers are a tough call.

[ifanew]

deffo Gareth Bale at left back

 

Seeing as there wasn't a smilie....

 

Ahem!

 

[Guest Prongsy]

Finnan should be right back. Criminal that he's never even got a look in for England.

[Rich Gobey]

seems obvious with the benefit of hindsight. there's plenty of young players on the fringes of the england team right now.

 

in five years time the keeper, most of the midfield and at least one of the strikers are a tough call.

 

No one on here uses the benefit of hindsight, all arguments are constructed using true visionary forsight!

[Guy_Incognito]

I tried reading the blurb underneat the formation, but couldn't get any further than this

 

Rio will be the team's veteran at 29, but Anton will possess the same assured approach and, let us hope, the same "funky" goalscoring celebrations

 

[yellow jumper]

hart

 

johnson

lescott

ferdinand

richards

 

gerrard

johnson

wiltshire

 

young

walcott

rooney

[Rich Gobey]

Where's John Welsh????

[John am Rhein]

agree. predicting the england team in five years time isn't easy.

 

I can predict that they'll be sh*t...

 

(no hang on, they've got Capello )

[andyc]

Finnan should be right back. Criminal that he's never even got a look in for England.

 

[Alonso]

Forwards

 

England will have so much talent up front it will be embarrassing, and other teams may concede games before kick-off to avoid the humiliation on the pitch.

 

[Kahnee]

Partridge, Mellor, Kirkland....

 

 

[ChrisC]

Finnan should be right back. Criminal that he's never even got a look in for England.

 

Aye its a downright injustice.....

 

Given that he's Irish

 

[Des]

Aye its a downright injustice.....

 

Given that he's Irish

 

 

I'm pretty sure Prongsy was joking. Jesus, I hope so.

[Gerry]

Seeing as there wasn't a smilie....

 

Ahem!

 

Did it really need a smilie?

 

Good grief...

 

And the same goes for Prongy's joke about Finnan.

[Jarg Armani]

Aye its a downright injustice.....

 

Given that he's Irish

 

 

 

hahaha! U R Right! He is!

 

meff.

[psl]

There was a time when everyone on here had a sense of humour and a 'smilie' wasn't required for every obviously sarcastic comment.

 

What happened to the neighbourhood hey.

[stressederic]

There was a time when everyone on here had a sense of humour and a 'smilie' wasn't required for every obviously sarcastic comment.

 

What happened to the neighbourhood hey.

 

It's a great source of concern for me.

[ManxRed]

There was a time when everyone on here had a sense of humour and a 'smilie' wasn't required for every obviously sarcastic comment.

 

What happened to the neighbourhood hey.

 

Oh, DO f*ck off.

[ManxRed]