Former international says 70 per cent of England team would rather not play

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Former international says 70 per cent of England team would rather not play

September 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

How far would you travel to have a load of drunks call you a fat, useless wanker?

Ex-Tottenham, Blackburn and England man Tim Sherwood has waded into the debate about the levels of enthusiasm experienced by the national team when they pull on the shirt. “If Capello gets them in a room and says: ‘It will never come out from here and I will give you the perfect alibi - how many of you do not want to play for England anymore?’ 70 per cent of that squad would put their hands up,” he insists. “Not talking about the guys who have one, two, three or four caps - I am talking about the ones who have 36 or 40 caps. They would jack it in.”Assuming that he means over 36 caps, that would remove the following names from the current squad: David James, Paul Robinson, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, John Terry, David Beckham, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Emile Heskey and Wayne Rooney.

“Does Frank Lampard really want to be out there taking that sort of abuse?” continues Sherwood, “I don’t think he does.”

Fair point.

[The Telegraph]

Tags: Ashley Cole, Croatia, David Beckham, David James, Emile Heskey, England, Fabio Capello, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, John Terry, Paul Robinson, Rio Ferdinand, Tim Sherwood, Wayne Rooney

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Posted: September 10th, 2008 by Josh Burt

2 responses so far

1 The Big Football // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:09 pm

It seems that the passion for a club far exceeds the passion for the national side, or is it the money? who knows…
2 southern media // Sep 10, 2008 at 5:01 pm

So there are hardly any English players in the premiership any more, and of those few that remain, hardly any of them actually want to play for England, so therefore the reason we’re no good is….Steve McClaren! And Frank Lampard! And Setanta! Blinkers off, people, blinkers off…