With Sol Campbell likely to drop out a further player possibly his Tottenham team-mate John Scales will be called
With Sol Campbell likely to drop out, a further player, possibly his Tottenham team-mate John Scales, will be called up after the weekend.As Paul Ince is suspended, and Alan Shearer, Tony Adams and Stuart Pearce injured, a fifth captain will be required for Hoddle's 12th match. Perhaps, following Roy Keane's successful appointment at Old Trafford, Hoddle will choose Wright.More football, pages 26 and 27ENGLAND SQUAD(for World Cup Group Two qualifier, v Moldova, Wembley, 10 Sept)Seaman (Arsenal), Walker (Tottenham), Martyn (Leeds); G Neville (Manchester United), Southgate (Aston Villa), Pallister (Manchester United), R Ferdinand (West Ham), Campbell (Tottenham), Le Saux (Chelsea), P Neville (Manchester United); Batty (Newcastle), Butt (Manchester United), Beckham (Manchester United), Gascoigne (Rangers), Scholes (Manchester United), Lee (Newcastle), Ripley (Blackburn); Sheringham (Manchester United), L Ferdinand (Tottenham), Wright (Arsenal), Collymore (Aston Villa), Heskey (Leicester).One extra player to be added to the squad after Premier League matches at the weekend.. Hoddle was unhappy when McManaman missed Le Tournoi de France in the summer, but he insisted that was not the reason, it was because "McManaman has had a lot on his plate recently."Two teenagers, Rio Ferdinand and Emile Heskey, have been called up, although Heskey will swap to the under-21s if the senior strikers avoid weekend injury. He gives you something different, he has a gift inside him." So far only Barry Fry and Frank Clark have released that genie but one can understand Hoddle trying.Rovers' revival has earned one Blackburn player a call-up, Stuart Ripley, who won his only previous cap against San Marino in Graham Taylor's last match as manager four years ago He takes the place that Steve McManaman might have expected.
Sides like Stevenage and Woking, with millions pumped into them by progressive local authorities, and Rushden & Diamonds, with Max Griggs' millions, mean that financially its near impossible to compete. It's hardly Old Trafford, but that's the point - it still feels like it belongs to us.From park football to the pinnacle of the non-League world in less than 30 years - we've done it. From the Surrey Senior League to the Vauxhall Conference, it was a hard slog and we did it on our own.The council is not interested and local businesses would not recognise a sound investment if it kicked a ball in their face.People talk about the growing gulf between the rich and the poor in the Premiership, but it exists in the Conference too. More surprising is the selection of Aston Villa's Stan Collymore, last capped by Terry Venables, ahead of Chris Sutton of leaders Blackburn."We have a big man in Les Ferdinand but Sutton is in my thoughts and may come in if there are injuries," Hoddle said "I've seen Stan twice and he's played well. "It just wasn't our day."Unfortunately, certain players have paid the penalty for higher profile misses. "Not for the penalty," said Chris Waddle when asked how he'd like to be remembered. But perhaps Waddle just wasn't cut out to take penalties, and would be cheered by Pele's theory, that a penalty is "a cowardly way to score".Johan Cruyff, who wouldn't have been fazed by the antics of any keeper, obviously did.
I recall watching footage of Cruyff passing the ball to a team-mate instead of shooting directly from the spot when Ajax won a penalty against Helmond Sport in 1982 Talk about making the easy things look difficult.. If he had run on the pitch and smacked someone in the mouth or hit the ref he would not be in the squad but he didn't. As his case won't be dealt with for weeks it would be unprofessional to leave him out."Hoddle would not be drawn on whether he would be prepared to act as a character witness when the case is heard but the FA will hardly be oblivious of his views - their director of public affairs was sitting next to Hoddle when he made them. Hoddle said he would be talking to Wright when the England squad meet and gave a strong indication that he would play when he added: "He is probably the in the best form of anyone in the Premiership."On recent evidence he is not even the most in-form player in Arsenal's forward line but his call-up is justified if not Hoddle's defence. In many ways he was provoked."He is working at controlling his anger and is getting better He's been perfect with England. "There is no law in football that says you can't re-enter the pitch after the game.