[Dan_]

Originally posted by 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.

John Terry is an injury doubt and all so Carragher would slot in for him. If Stevie G is not fit for the next game then it has to be Carrick that plays, Neville or Hargreaves in midfield really would be a joke.

The thing with Sheringham is he is still doing a great job for West Ham at premiership level and because he is such a clever player he would do well should we have needed him for the Wales game, he never had much pace in the first place so it's not really made much difference to his game. Cole is good form at the moment and that is always my basis on picking players, Johnson is not setting the championship on fire at the moment.