Looking at the England squad named by Don Fab on Saturday, I was in disbelief. I have been massively disillusioned by the national team ever since it became painfully obvious that Frank Lampard was not good enough, but was never dropped.

This squad is a farce, a joke of a seriously worrying degree.

What is it that Paul Robinson, for instance, has done since not being in the squad last season? Change clubs. That’s it and, after his insipid display on Saturday against Everton, it is even more worrying that he was still invited. Glen Johnson, Wes Brown, Stuart Downing. Even Emile bloody Heskey is in the squad.

The most damning, of course, is Wayne Bridge. This is a player who has done nothing, played nothing, contributed nothing. He has medals for nothing and a massive bank balance out of all proportion to his ability, and Capello should have used him as an example. Dropping him would have shown that the England squad needs players who are up for a fight.

So, it is time: drop the lot of them. We have an international team that has, at the end of the day, achieved nothing whatsoever for nearly 50 years. We now have a squad full, literally full, of players who have relentlessly proven that they are not good enough. Only Spain have so consistantly failed.

How many times do we have to see a flapping keeper like James or Robinson? A full back getting ruined by the Andorra number 7? John Terry having to be some weird ‘braveheart’ and dive in at the last second, because he has neither the pace nor the skill required to stop it getting to that point? Lampard lumping it, Gerrard not running the game, Beckham vanishing after half an hour except for Hollywood passes to Bollywood players, Rooney running around like a buffoon hacking people down and screaming at the ref?

And let’s not forget the bench full of has-beens and never-were’s who had their chance and blew it, yet seem to own their place in the squad.

The thing that has to stop is the belief that there isn’t anyone better. I don’t care who is on the team as long as they have brains and play for the country like professionals rather than over-promoted thugs. What we have is a boy’s club, a network of the big names.

Sack the lot, promote the whole of the under-21s. There are a few of course who have been put in the squad, such as Bentley and Walcott, but no longer should Ashley Young be left out so there is a place for Beckham.

The national team is like pop music. It has eaten itself, it has nowhere to go, the evolution is complete. When this happens, extinction is rained down and a new form takes its place.

Virtually every player in that squad has had their chances and has failed. It is time to let a new generation, en masse, move in. They will possibly get slaughtered for a year or two, but they would grow, new talent would join them and they would get better and better. If they did fail, we’d just be where we are now.

So goodbye to the current lot, I’d say thanks for the memories, but you haven’t provided them.

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