England squad for Euro'08 qualifiers - Andorra & Macedonia

monoslayer SG

Squad:

Robinson (Tottenham), Kirkland (Liverpool), Foster (Man Utd)

A Cole (Arsenal), Young (Charlton), P Neville (Everton), Bridge (Chelsea), Terry (Chelsea), Ferdinand (Man Utd), Brown (Man Utd), Dawson (Tottenham),

Lampard (Chelsea), Hargreaves (Bayern Munich), Carrick (Man Utd), Gerrard (Liverpool), Jenas (Tottenham), Wright-Phillips (Chelsea), Richardson (Man Utd), Downing (Middlesbrough), Lennon (Tottenham),

Defoe (Tottenham), Bent (Charlton), Johnson (Everton), Crouch (Liverpool)

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any comments on the squad? any players u tink he missed out or shouldnt b there? personally, i feel tat mclaren's selection is kinda weird. IMO, Scott Parker definitely deserves to b in tat list.

stellazio SG

parker is suay, esp now that hargreaves is main man..but i'm sure sooner or later he'll get called up.. Wink

marcteng SG

England will beat those 2 teams home and away, but heck even if they qualified, so what?

They will continue to disappoint and qualify for quarters and losing on PK again.

nanren4ever SG

the inclusion of Ben Foster is a suprise. I mean, what has he done recently to merit the place? Or is it just Mcclaren’s way of saying he will do things differently?

monoslayer SG

exactly! the way he pick his players is jus crappy. Foster? SWP? doesnt mean they come from big clubs he have to pick them wat...

CHoCo^LaTcH SG

surprised too...seems that Mcclaren just wants to give Foster experience of warming the bench Mr. Green

gasband SG

I am a Liverpool fan and i wish Carson would be in instead of Foster. But the fact remains that Carson hardly played last season while Foster had a really good season with Watford in the Championships last season.

tarcki SG

Richardson also....

trendz SG

because mcclaren could see foster as a better gk than carson. to be honest, carson does not deserve a call-up. Looking at how he played for pool whenever he got his chance, you would have expected it. But lookin' at how foster played for watford; the contrast is there. Wink

The man who was death SG

matt taylor and gary o'neil for england!!!!!!!!

gareth barry for england!!!!!!!

The man who was death SG

jenas shld definietly not be in there, even huddlestone would be better.

zocoss SG

Doesn't matter who they put out lah... Andorra is rank 142nd in the world... England top 10. Even Singapore is better than Andorra... Laughing

Mc Claren have it easy, Sure easy win.

The man who was death SG

andorra nearly won against france before, dun play play, i think they're better than singapore

Agenda SG

He's a twat.. Carson over Kirkland? And Phil Neville is included? Shocked Shocked

People will laugh at England

JLennon SG

Barry was given his chance after he moved from Brighton to Villa. He just didn't seize it.

It an unspectacular squad but hopefully an effective one.

CoolMyth SG

1) Andorra's 2006 entry into the Eurovision Song Contest ('Sense Tu'

or 'Without You' by Jenny) came 23rd out of 23 songs at the semi-final stage.

In three attempts they have never yet reached the final. Which is only

marginally worse than our recent record.

2) Little Spanish tennis player Arantxa Sanchez Vicario lives in Andorra.

We're sure this has absolutely nothing to do with Andorra having no income

tax.

3) Life expectancy in Andorra is a massive 83.51 years - the highest in the

world. They also have absolutely no unemployment.

4) Andorrans are a minority in their own country. The population of around

70,000 is 43% Spanish and just 33% Andorran, while there's a fair smattering

of Portuguese and French types.

5) The Andorran football team have managed just three victories in their

short ten-year history; against Belarus, Albania and Macedonia - the last of

those coming in October 2004, the first in a competitive fixture.

6) Ildefonso Lima Solá is their highest-ever goalscorer with a massive total

of four goals. This did not earn him the title of Golden Player of Andorra

though - that went to traditionally very busy goalkeeper Koldo.

7) Andorra will have to survive without Ildefenso on Saturday at Old

Trafford as he is serving a six-match ban for spitting at an Armenian. Marc

Bernaus will also miss the game as he is playing for Elche in the Spanish

second division.

Cool Jazz legends like Miles Davis, Fats Domino and BB King have all played at

the famous (in jazz circles) Escaldes-Engordany festival in Andorra.

9) There are no airports or railways stations in Andorra, but they are

considering creating a 'Metro Aeri' - basically an elevated cable system.

Which sounds fun.

10) Andorra play their home games at The Estadio Comunal de Aixovall,

boasting a massive capacity of 1604, which should just about house all the

England footballers' WAGS and hangers-on when the two teams play there next year.

11) The food in Andorra is mainly of a Catalan flavour - specialities

include coques (flavoured flat cakes), trinxat (a potato and cabbage dish)

and truites de carreroles (mushroom omelette).

12) FIFA's rankings have Andorra sitting pretty in a respectable 132nd spot.

This makes them marginally worse than St. Vincent and the Grenadines but

slightly better than Lesotho. Surprisingly, they're quite a bit worse than

Scotland.

All you need to know about Andorra. Cool

zocoss SG

England sure win by 2, 3, 4, 5… goals?