World Cup 2006

[Summers]

I like Hargreaves. It's great being the only Hargreaves fan alive.

Question is, when you're watching England play down the pub and Hargreaves is brought on after 60 minutes and the pub descends into a chorus of booing and swear words, do you THEN make your Hargreaves love known?

Done it before, yeah.

Got loads of stick for it though, haha.

[Liam]

I don't mind Hargreaves, but I agree with the Mirror columnist today:

"If Hargreaves is the answer, what is the question?".

He doesn't seem to be there for any real reason.

[Guest Ringo Mars]

Hargreaves is a good player for Bayern. He just doesn't belong in England when there are roughly 7 midfielders who could do a better job than him.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

The question is "Which player has made the England squad YET AGAIN when there are far better players around who play a better form of football than him in the same position?"

Okay, that's just one of MANY questions.

[Summers]

But Hargeaves can cover anywhere defensively, hence his usefulness. He's a decent squad player, who can cover a lot of positions.

[Liam]

But Hargeaves can cover anywhere defensively, hence his usefulness. He's a decent squad player, who can cover a lot of positions.

Well, isn't he a defensive midfielder first and foremost? When they'd rather play Carragher out of position then play Hargreaves in that position, it seems a bit weird.

And though he may cover a lot of defensive positions, we already have enough cover for pretty much all of them, and could have put in a more specific, better defender in place of him..or another striker.

[fineintent]

Just because he says he can play there, doesn't mean he can effectively.

You could argue that Gerrard could play at right-back, but there would be people better equipped to do so. That said I see Hargreaves becoming a cult hero for shitness, like Crouch before he scored for Liverpool.

[Summers]

I'd rather have Hargreaves in my squad than Jenas, though, but that's just me.

[fineintent]

In an ideal world, we'd have neither. King and Parker/Nolan would have gone.

[Dan]

How many games has he started in his natural position?

0?

It's like bringing Rooney on at left back every game for 20 minutes, and judging him on that.

[Summers]

In an ideal world, we'd have neither. King and Parker/Nolan would have gone.

I'd prefer Parker/Nolan to Jenas, King or Hargreaves. But I still rate Hargreaves and King.

[Liam]

How many games has he started in his natural position?

0?

It's like bringing Rooney on at left back every game for 20 minutes, and judging him on that.

But thats the point.....he isn't very good anywhere else, and Sven won't play him in his natural position...so why bother with him?

And defensive midfielder moving forward into midfield and back into defense isn't as big a step as Rooney at left-back, Dan.

[Dan]

Anyway, let's stop the arguining and enjoy this.

[fineintent]

I spat beer with laughter when I saw that.

Cracka has no rhythm.

[therockbox]

The wosrt thing to happen in that game though was for Crouch to score. He doesn't belong in an England shirt and is only there cos of his lanky frame. The fact he scored will make Eriksson sure that he made the right choice in putting him in the squad, which WASN'T the right choice.

[IAceI]

The Crouch dance is old, he done it at the Beckham Birthday Bash in a tux - now that was good ¬_¬

[therockbox]

That must have been one massive tux.

[IAceI]

He gets vertigo looking at his feet I heard.

[therockbox]

The best thing to come out of the Beckham's party was Jeremy Clarkson telling Rio Ferdinand to spend less time at the hairdressers.

[IAceI]

The best thing to come out of the Beckham's party was Jeremy Clarkson telling Rio Ferdinand to spend less time at the hairdressers.