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The Spoiler’s England XI against Croatia


It’s going to be tough, but these guys could do it 

So nice of the fans to welcome Signor Capello to competitive English football in the traditional fashion over the weekend - he will, of course, learn to embrace the booing, enjoy the grumbling, and even look forward to the jeering. But for now he just needs to find the correct way to make eleven footballers play a relatively simple game without getting their legs tangled or suddenly losing their confidence.

A start would be by ignoring the tried and failed combinations and going for a popular Premier League formation that works with these players instead. And don’t pay any attention to the clamouring Beckham/Walcott debates, Fabio, just play them both!

The Spoiler would have England line up to face the Croatians like so:

England XI

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Posted: September 8th, 2008 by Josh Burt