A. Young named in England Squad
Young has been named in the England Squad for The Euro 2012 qualifiers against Bulgaria and Switzerland.
Milner helps England progress.
James Milner played a big part this afternoon helping England qualify for the last 16 of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
There was a few question marks as to weather Jimmy should of started as many wanted to see Joe Cole start but Fabio Capello went with his instincts and it paid of very well.
Milner got himself a assist when he crossed a fantastic ball across goal for Jermaine Defoe to score the one and only goal of the afternoon.
Many including Sky Sports also gave our very own Jimmy man of the match with them describing him as outstanding.
England finished 2nd in the group after Landon Donavon scored a last minute goal for the USA so they topped the group on goals scored.
Emile Heskey also featured in the game as he came of the bench for the last 10 minutes.
Sidwell on his way, while England draw again!
Sky Sports are this morning reporting that Fulham have made a official approach to take Steve Sidwell from Aston Villa.
Sidwell only has one year left on his current deal so Villa will probably get around £2million for him. Although he’s never really been a hit at the Villa, on or off the field he has been loyal to us and done what he could to get into the side.
Maybe he wasn’t good enough but any player who just get’s on with things in this day and age deserves credit so when he doe’s leave weather it be Fulham or anywhere else I wish him the best of luck.
Embarrassing England and Wayne Rooney
There must be something wrong with you if you didn’t either watch last nights game or haven’t heard about it to much so I won’t go on to bore you about it. Heskey again played, and again he was the best player on the pitch but for some reason he was still subbed despite a certain Mr Capello stating he will only play players on form. Ask yourself this, why is Wayne Rooney not sitting on the bench then?
Seeing as I’ve come onto Mr Rooney before I planned to, he is a absolute idiot and has gone down in my books after comments he made last night about the fans.
Wayne, are you that high up now you forget what it’s like to struggle to get to games? Have to take out loans that you will still be repaying come the next World Cup just to follow your country? Those fans have every right to boo what they seen last night and I’m not usually one that agree’s with this kind of thing.
WC 2010: England 1 USA 1
James Milner and Emile Heskey both featured in England’s opener against the USA last night.
England took the lead early on when Emile Heskey sent Steven Gerrard through who fired home after just six minutes.
However, USA were back on level terms when a Clint Dempsey’s poor shot somehow stumbled under Rob Green.
James Milner only managed 30 minutes, weather this had something to do with his yellow card or the fact he still didn’t look 100% after his illness this week. I personally it was a bit of both. He looked of the pace and not the James Milner we have grown very fond of here at Aston Villa.
Emile Heskey on the other hand had a fantastic game and was my man of the match. His work rate was second to none and some pundits even stated it was his best game in a England shirt.
Next up for England is is Algeria next Friday.
Capello picks Villa trio
Fabio Capello today named James Milner, Stephen Warnock and Emile Heskey in his final 23 man squad that will travel to South Africa this week and try to win the 2010 World Cup.
This is the first time in history that Aston Villa will have three players representing England in the worlds biggest competition.
James Milner was always expected to be included in the squad because of his fantastic season, Capello’s remarks about him and of course how versatile he is.
Emile Heskey isn’t everybody’s cup of tea when it comes to Villa, let alone England but I firmly believe he brings the best out of Wayne Rooney and he will be the player that will win us the World Cup so I’m all for Emile going to South Africa.
The real surprise came when Stephen Warnock was picked instead of Everton’s Leighton Baines. Baines featured in 2 pre-world cup friendlies while Warnock didn’t feature at all and it looked certain that Warnock wouldn’t be going.
Weather we agree with Fabio or not – his squad is picked now and in ten days time we will all stand as one to support our nation.
Here is the squad in full:
Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), David James (Portsmouth), Robert Green (West Ham)
Defenders: Jamie Carragher (Liverpool), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Ledley King (Tottenham), John Terry (Chelsea), Matthew Upson (West Ham), Stephen Warnock (Aston Villa).
Midfielders: Gareth Barry (Manchester City), Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Joe Cole (Chelsea), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Aaron Lennon (Tottenham), James Milner (Aston Villa), Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City).
Forwards: Peter Crouch (Tottenham), Jermain Defoe (Tottenham), Emile Heskey (Aston Villa), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United).
