Whoscored XI

After looking at the England squad that was announced today, feeling slightly empty about it, then listening to people talk/moan about it. In my head this would sound like an old man shouting at people to get off his garden: "blood the kids!!", "I've stopped following England", "Look at the Spanish model!!" (to sum up all I heard). Drove me to go onto whoscored.com and painstakingly go through their best rated English players and compile an England team based solely on this rating system, I have tried to balance the team as best I can and I am aware that Walcott, Jagielka and Jones are injured and believe it or not would all make it into this team. Also I have picked 30 players cause that's what Hodgson did.

Anyway, there are a few strange additions but the bulk of the squad still remains the same. Possibly the best piece of news I could draw from this is that Tom Cleverly doesn't make it into the team, or would be anywhere near it for that matter.

Goalkeepers

Joe Hart - 6.67
John Ruddy - 6.67
Frazor Forster - 6.39
Ben Foster - 6.47

Defenders

Curtis Davis - 7.41
Garry Cahill - 7.39
James Tomkins - 7.27
Michael Dawson - 7.16
Mike Wiliamson - 7.09
Chris Smalling - 7.08
Joel Ward - 7.27
Glenn Johnson - 7.14
Leighton Baines - 7.2
Kieron Gibbs - 7.07

Midfielders

Stephen Gerrard - 7.71
Gareth Barry - 7.31
Raheem Sterling - 7.31
Adam Lallana - 7.29
Jordan Henderson - 7.25
Ryan Noble - 7.25
Tom Huddlestone - 7.16
Frank Lampard - 7.16
Andros Townsend - 7.13
Ross Barkley - 6.99

Forwards

Daniel Sturridge - 7.67
Wayne Rooney - 7.59
Peter Crouch - 7.26
Nathan Dyer - 7
Danny Welbeck - 6.94
Jay Rodriguez - 6.94

Also look forward to The Centre Circles very own England 23 when the squad is announced closer to the time, we know who should be there.

~John Robert Lavery