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"England Squad v Denmark"

England squad:
Goalkeepers: Robinson (Tottenham), James (Man City), Green (Norwich)

Defenders: G Neville (Man Utd), G Johnson (Chelsea), A Cole (Arsenal), Ferdinand (Man Utd), Terry (Chelsea), Carragher (Liverpool), Upson (Birmingham)

Midfielders: P Neville (Everton), Beckham (Real Madrid), Gerrard (Liverpool), Lampard (Chelsea), J Cole (Chelsea), Hargreaves (Bayern Munich), Wright-Phillips (Chelsea), Jenas (Newcastle), Carrick (Tottenham)

Strikers: Owen (Real Madrid), Rooney (Man Utd), Defoe (Tottenham), A Johnson (Crystal Palace)

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It's good to see Carrick, Upson and Johnson in there. Though I'm slighty suspicious that Johnson is only in there to show that dropping down a division doesn't make a difference..

Hargreves would have joined 'pool if Gerrard left, I honestly believe that.

I rate Parker higher, this will be his season, he is playing brilliantly for Newcastle at the moment.

We were linked, cue me jumping up and down and cheering. But then he wasn't quite Spanish enough, so it was Momononono 'Who's Vieira?' Sissoko instead. Pfft. Hargreaves should be Keane's replacement.

Heh. I had a feeling it might've been Liverpool too, but really can't remember.

English young midfielder...C'mon, it's not going to be Boro. Try harder.

But with Stevie and Lampard the attacking midfielders they are I think it just leaves us a bit too exposed. SWP, Rooney and Cole are great at backtracking but it leaves us very vunerable to a counter-attack.

I really want to see Hargreaves in the Prem though. Who was it who was enquiring about him over the summer? Was it Middlesborough?

Stevie-Hargreaves-Lampard
SWP/Rooney-Owen-Joe Cole

It'd work wonders.

Hehe :-)

I simply wouldn't play a 4-3-3. Can't understand Sven's reasoning on that.

Hargreaves is trained to be a central midfielder. It's the position he plays for Bayern Munich, and he plays it well.

Medals Scott Parker has won - 0 (He didn't play enough for a Prem)
Medals Owen Hargreaves has won - Craploads

I bet you Sven will always play Hargreaves before Parker. And as for the 'Hargreaves has never played a full game for England' - no, he hasn't. But neither has Rooney, ahahah. And he's not a regular, I never said he was. I just said he was better than Parker.

He'd play in my England 4-3-3 though. A Hargreaves anchor to the 3 man midfield would let Lamps and Stevie bomb forward all the want instead of this stupid "You stay, I'll go. No, you stay. Er, what? Balls, I've done a crap backpass and France are 2-1 up. Big Scouse gay. Get some smaller ears, Londoner."

Hargreaves has without a doubt always got to be in the squad (and always is). I just don't see him as a first team regular and neither does Sven by the looks of things. Correct me I'm wrong but he's never played a full game for England has he? Hargreaves is very useful indeed, especially considering his vast versitility but for me Scott Parker is a better midfielder, if only because it's the position he's trained for.