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Pick your England team to face Andorra tonight


England/Andorra, World Cup Qualifier, 8.15pm, ITV1

The Spoiler’s England team to face Andorra

The Three Lions are ever-so-slight 1/200 favourites to make it seven wins out of seven in the World Cup qualifiers against an Andorra side who have never won away from home. This is how The Spoiler would line up.

We disagree with the idea of playing Gary Neville ahead of Glen Johnson, who is a yellow card away from suspension. Fabio Capello wants everyone available to face Croatia at home but we feel having players ruled out for the game after that away to Ukraine could prove just as dangerous.

The biggest talking point is who will partner Frank Lampard in midfield with Gareth Barry suspended and Michael Carrick, Owen Hargreaves and Scott

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Posted: June 10th, 2009 by Michael Lintorn

England may be forced to play Andorra behind closed doors


Tube strike may force supporters to stay at home

Wembley Park Underground Station

From 7pm tonight, adequately paid London Underground staff are planning to strike for 48 hours, leaving most people in the capital severely fudged if they want to get around. Among the worst effected by the industrial action, however, would be the England fans intending to travel to Wembley for the World Cup Qualifier against Andorra tomorrow night.

The FA suspended ticket sales at 70,000 last week when they realised the game clashed the the tube workers’ walkout, and it is understood they will hold a crisis meeting with the Metropolitan Police, Transport for London and Brent Council later today, to see if contingency plans can be put in place. Otherwise, the game may have to be played behind closed doors, meaning John Terry’s potty mouth will echo all around the empty stadium.

The Telegraph reports:

It is understood that the threat of playing the match behind closed doors is the most extreme option currently on the table amid hopes that the RMT can still be persuaded to call off the strike. An announcement is expected later this afternoon.

The match itself

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Posted: June 9th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey