Call Up players that want to play, not cas they have to

On paper we have (in my opinion) the 4th best squad in the world, behind Brazil, Argentina and Spain. And with the likes of Rio Ferdinand and John Terry at the back, Steven Gerrard and Gareth Barry in the middle, Rooney up front, we have arguably the best central spine of players in the world. And we have players who can play wide, in Joe Cole, SWP, David Bentley, Ashley Young Aaron Lennon.

We even have young talent emerging in Theo Walcott, Micah Richards, Michael Johnson and Fraizer Campbell to name just a few.

But yet we continually let ourselves down, despite how these players shine week in, week out, for their respective clubs. Its a disgrace how these players get paid 100k+ per week in some cases, but yet they can’t gel together for the national side. People say “yeah its cos of so many foreigners in our leagues” however i reckon the blame must be left with the players.

These players are considered as some of the best in the world, and they get paid to do their job. You’d think that in a national side full of talent it would make them even better playing around better players, but they just seem like they can’t be bothered to commit to the national side and train jsut that little bit harder.

We have the raw talent, and the best manager we’ve had in a while, I reckon its about time the players who aren’t performing get dropped, just like Owen has, because that way they’ll realise that they arent automatically given a place based on theyre persona, they need to prove it in the white shirt which was once so proudly worn.