England play Mexico in a pre-world cup friendly tonight at Wembley stadium. After a week of altitude training for the 30 man squad tonight Fabio can put most of these through their paces and see what formation of Rooney plus A.N. Other will work best until we get beat in the 1/4 finals as always (probably on pens).
The FA Cup players are already rested so that's David James relaxing on the bench along with John Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and surprisingly also Joe Cole. [Given that Joe Cole only played 20 mins of the cup final and is an outsider to get in the 23 man squad you would have thought he'd get at least 45 mins?]
Both keepers Rob Green and Joe Hart look set to have 45 mins each, with Green likely to start the match between the sticks. Other subs would probably see Crouch given a turn with Darren Bent, or the plan which has been used in training to play 4-5-1 with Rooney up front and Gerrard supporting in a free role from midfield.
At the very least with Capello he is looking for a Plan B, something missing under Sven (and a Plan A would have been nice under McClaren too).
Looks like it's Crouch starting with Rooney up front and no Lampard in the middle (as I already mentioned) so altered by bet accordingly as I had forgotten about that. D'Oh. Crouch has a great strike rate when playing for England and looks an outstanding bet tonight to score.
Kick off tonight at 8.00
[Pitch cut up rough by 8.10]
Best Bets --
Crouch 1st Goalscorer @ 6/1
England to win 3-0 @ 8/1
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Greyhound Derby Update
WESTMEAD SCOLARI 3/1F finished 5th
SLICK ROBERT 6/1 finished 6th
Our Ante post picks both made it though to the first heat of the semi final on Saturday but sadly both eliminated in that heat and failed to make the final. It was a good run while it lasted and not at all bad for the big prices we'd taken.
Maybe next year we'll go one closer.
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