The England thread

[Lineker]

And now Welbeck has replaced Defoe. Bit of a nothingy second half, this. We should be wracking up our goal difference here.

[Lineker]

4-0; Milner scores his first full international goal.

[badotori]

Nice to see that no matter who manages them, plays for them or what the score is, England'll always give me an excuse to yell at the TV some form of "JUST SHOOT, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!"

[Lineker]

5-0; Baines' free kick takes a massive deflection off the wall and flies into the net.

[Lineker]

Finished 5-0. Good comfortable victory. John Terry ended the game on the sidelines as he limped off with an ankle injury, and Roy Hodgson has said that he may miss Tuesday's game against Ukraine.

[Dingle]

Solid win last night, although expected nothing different really from us. Lampard played well in the first, Milner and Cleverley too. Still not sure on Gerrard/Lampard as a midfield duo as neither really 'sit' in front of the defence for all that long and often wander forward, which is fine against Moldova but I doubt we'll have both of these heading to the World Cup. Hoping we get some more of our youngsters playing around these older players though, Terry's absence means we should be testing Cahill or Jones, and I hope Baines gets another game alongside Ox. They linked up well.

[Starvinho]

Missed the game last night because I was at a wedding but 5-0 is a good start to the qualifying campaign. If we can follow that up with a win against Ukraine on Tuesday then we'll be well on our way. I'll watch the highlights later when I can retrieve the remote control from the missus.

[Starvinho]

John Terry is out of the Ukraine game, the FA have just confirmed.

[Jimmy]

Walcott's also out. Studge hopeful of playing despite illness.

Livermore, Sterling and Lallana have all been called up.

[Lineker]

Adam Lallana, Raheem Sterling, and Jake Livermore have all been called up after Daniel Sturridge and Theo Walcott were forced to withdraw.

[Jimmy]

:/

Copycat.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Jake Livermore's been called up - the most ridiculously overrated, average player since Danny Rose.

[Summers]

Adam Lallana, Raheem Sterling, and Jake Livermore have all been called up after Daniel Sturridge and Theo Walcott were forced to withdraw.

Wow.

[Starvinho]

Would like to see Sterling get 15-20 minutes, very exciting talent for the future.

[Jimmy]

Yeah, Livermore's just not good enough.

I think Sterling will grow to be a fixture in the side, I like the prospect of Chamberlain on one side and Sterling on the other, but it seems like way too soon for him to be called up, really. But I'm not complaining, he's clearly got talent. I don't know enough about Lallana to comment on him.

[Hobo]

Sterling's in so England can basically call dibs on him and stop Jamaica from calling him up.

[Jimmy]

people are kicking off on twitter that Sterling got a call-up ahead of Nathan Dyer.

[Lineker]

Lallana is a bit good too. Would like to see him get some minutes.

[Starvinho]

people are kicking off on twitter that Sterling got a call-up ahead of Nathan Dyer.

I forgot about Dyer, he has had a great start to the season so maybe he should've got a call-up?

[Gazz]

I've always though Adam Lallana was Australian.

That might be on FM though...