[CharlotteSometimes]

Yeah, I'd prefer Stevie G not to play and give him time to fully recover. These are hardly the most difficult games the national squad will have to face, and the season is, for us, just two games in. I don't see how injuries to a holding midfielder (which is how Sven would deploy Gerrard) or a winger (Wright-Phillips) would increase Jamie Carragher's opportunities, though. And I can see Sven going with Neville, unfortunately, as he can be pushed into midfield should substitutions necessitate it. And Hargreaves in a holding role? That really is the stuff of nightmares!

I really don't think that Sheringham could take the pace of football at that level now. He will be 40 next birthday, after all. Cole perhaps, but he was always dire in an England shirt in the past.