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If i was a manager and saw beckham at right back, i'd stick a wide striker on (someone who is like boamorte or lua lua for example) and play 4-4-1-1 and treble up on the England right and get behind them. You can't start with that formation. Fact is you need a right back who is gonna run beyond beckham - we have Gary Neville who has been highly effective doing this. Carragher is just not up to this, he is a central defender who is in the squad who can be 'competent' at other positions if we need him, just like Hargreaves.

As for missed shots only 7 shots were of note as most were speculative and outside the area as T&T to their credit stuck 11 men behind the ball. People say what about when England face a better team but they forget against better teams they will have more men forward and there will be more space, so there is hope for England yet. 3-5-2 is not possible for England as a serious formation as our only proper right wing back (or at least a winger who can tackle and has pace and the engine to do it) was bought up by Chelsea to sit in their reserves so no other club could get him.

England are stuck with 4-4-2 and any 3-5-2 with Lennon is a last resort because he's not equipped to do it. As for midfield, ever since Ledley King was injured, we've been ****ed because in qualifying he was our best player by a country mile.

England probably won't win the world cup, but to suggest they stink just because they have the second most negative manager in the history of football (behind Howard Wilkinson) isn't particularly fair, because we've qualified out of our group with relative ease compared to some teams, which means we'll have more in the tank for the rest of the WC. The rest of our games aren't mid afternoon and they won't be against teams that give no space, so it's far too early to judge them, like it's far too early to judge Brazil on winning 1-0 in one of the worst games of the tournament.