England - the future....

[Will95]

Went out, only thoughts were that Berkley and Townsend made great sub appearances, Rooney and (on this occasion) Hart looked undroppable and we missed a natural finisher in Welbeck (for England anyway!)

[10539.4 Miles Away]

Bump

[Hoop Blah]

Under 21's squad is just being announced.

Kane is in, Shaw and Barkley out. I think that's about the right call at the moment, although it would've been interesting to see them in the side I'm not sure messing with the squad is right and, those two missing out have been away with the first team last summer and should be involved next year too.

[Zammo]

Goalkeepers
Marcus Bettinelli (Fulham), Jonathan Bond (Watford), Jack Butland (Stoke City)
Defenders
Calum Chambers (Arsenal), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Luke Garbutt (Everton), Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough), Carl Jenkinson (Arsenal, on loan at West Ham United), Michael Keane (Burnley), Liam Moore (Leicester City), John Stones (Everton), Matt Targett (Southampton)
Midfielders
Tom Carroll (Tottenham Hotspur, on loan at Swansea City), Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea), Will Hughes (Derby County), Jake Forster-Caskey (Brighton & Hove Albion), Jesse Lingard (Manchester United), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea), Alex Pritchard (Tottenham Hotspur), Nathan Redmond (Norwich City), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton)
Forwards
Benik Afobe (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Patrick Bamford (Chelsea, on loan at Middlesbrough), Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Danny Ings (Burnley), Cauley Woodrow (Fulham)

[Hoop Blah]

Southgate also added that he'd have taken Shaw with them, as he's been part of the squad, but wasn't going to be included due to fitness issues.

Loftus-Cheek will, I think, be joining up with the u21s for the first time.

[Sanguine]

Bettinelli. Just assumed he was Italian. He has been utterly brilliant for Fulham this season. Kind of hope that has generally flown under the radar as I'd hate to see him sit on a Premier League bench next season.

[Winston Smith]

Forster-Caskey??

[Hoop Blah]

Forster-Caskey??

He's been quite an integral part of the under 21s for some time now.

That squad of 27 will be cut down to 23 before the tournament.

[Sutekh]

Nice to see they're not keeping the likes of Kane from participating by naming him for the pointless full England internationals at the start of June. Trust that's something they've learned from screwing the U21s over the last time they were at a finals.

[Maguire]

Alex Pritchard is a superb player. That's all.

[Hoop Blah]

Nice to see they're not keeping the likes of Kane from participating by naming him for the pointless full England internationals at the start of June. Trust that's something they've learned from screwing the U21s over the last time they were at a finals.

I think the only two to miss the last Championships because of the squad for the Brazil friendlies were Oxlade-Chamberlain and Rodwell.

All the talk about not taking your best players was just Pearce making excuses for failing to do better with the players he had. I don't think the Ox would've been in the squad anyway as he was already an established senior team player, and probably the same came be said of Rodwell.

[Sanguine]

From the Conference to the England squad in three years. Well played Jamie Vardy.

Austin in, less surprisingly.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... d-slovenia

Does highlight our lack of striking options that mean that with Sturridge and Kane (all of two caps) injured, we are calling on two debutants.

[Victor Meldrew]

From the Conference to the England squad in three years. Well played Jamie Vardy.

Austin in, less surprisingly.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... d-slovenia

Does highlight our lack of striking options that mean that with Sturridge and Kane (all of two caps) injured, we are calling on two debutants.

Austin from even lower down than Vardy (Hungerford, Poole Town) in 4 (?) years.
Glad we got rid of him and persevered with Church and Robson-Kanu.

[Hoop Blah]

Does highlight our lack of striking options that mean that with Sturridge and Kane (all of two caps) injured, we are calling on two debutants.

Vardy is a bit of a odd selection, but I wouldn't say we have a lack of striking options, it's just Hodgson is casting the net a bit wider to have a look at other options and a couple are injured.

Rooney
Sturridge
Welbeck
Kane (20 Premier League goals this season)
Austin (17)
Berahino (14)
Ings (10)
Carroll

Not to mention those wingers who can play a bit upfront like Walcott, Sterling and Townsend.

I'd say that's a decent crop of forwards. None of them are Messi or Suarez of course, and we really could do with one of the youngsters really kicking on over the next year or two, but there are players there that can cause international defenders problems.

[floyd__streete]

I predicted this time last year that Jamie Vardy would feature in an full England squad in 2014/15

[John Madejski's Wallet]

Why do the paddies seem to dislike Sterling so much?*

Also, if only Reading could put balls into the box like this Irish team are today


*Aside from him being a massively overrated tw*t obvs

[Froomes]

Most paddies are Liverpool fans, or at least the vast majority I met when I lived over there were, and as we all know Liverpool fans are essentially retards. They'll boo anyone that has the audacity to think they can actually win trophies if they leave Liverpool, the Suarez shirt burning is another example of this....

[Brosef Stalin]

Also they are massively racist and thick

[John Madejski's Wallet]

That was boring even by friendly standards

[Royal Rother]

Too much going through the motions football. Wilshere, Townsend and Vardy seemed the only ones with any real intent going forward.