haha Robben's cape should be all torn apart and carrying crutches under his arm
Rio Ferdinand is injured for us and will miss the whole tournament. way to get welcomed to captaincy!
I don't think missing Ferdinand is the biggest problem in the English squad. I think the goalkeepers are more of a problem. England never had really good gk's except Gordon Banks. The midfield, defence and forwards are pretty good, but the gk is the problem..
Since the 1990's it's poverty for the English on that position. Woods and Martyn weren't exactly world class goal keepers. Seaman had some strange actions.
But what happened to Richard Wright, I remember that around the 2000's he was seen the new great goalkeeper for England, but in 2002 they againa sked for the oldies James, Martyn and Seaman. And still, James is still here at the age of 39?! (Just like our third gk).. In 2004 James and Walker who was there in 1998 as well (lol) who and Robinson a young one. But now in 2010 Robinson isn't going anymore, but now there's...
James @ 39
Robert Green @ 30 and only 10 caps
Joe Hart @ 23 which is nice, but still he has to stay there and not what happened with Robinson and Wright..
All of them haven't played European football this year. Maybe England should invest in GK's and buy fewer player from abroad.
Yeah I know we have made use of Van der Sar for a long time but we have some successors.
Stekelenburg = #1, plays at Ajax for a long time and Arsenal is said to be interested. He's 27 y.o.
Michel Vorm = #2, play at FC Utrecht and I think he'll become #1 in the next few years. He's 26 and getting better very quickly
We got Sander Boschker with us as 3rd goalie, he's 39 y.o. and only 1 or 2 caps I think but rememeber what kind of goalies he had as opponent when he was younger:
Edwin van der Sar, Ed de Goey, Ronald Waterreus, Sander Westerveld (in his good years) and now he has the new generation as opponents.
A lot of keepers are coming through at the moment. Tim Krul @ Newcastle, I hope he'll get #1 spot this year, he's young and talented. Piet Velthuizen @ Vitesse, very talented guy, Kenneth Vermeer @ Ajax, has already played multiple games @ U21.
Where the Netherlands have a problem is the defence and most specifically the left back. We got the old van Bronckhorst there and no good back-up there. We miss a solid CD like Jaap Stam and Frank de Boer I'm only satisfied about our RB, Gregory van der Wiel.
