Get off the mans back!!

So Beckham is on 99 caps.

What job do we want Capello to do??

Make a showpiece of awarding Beckham his 100th cap, or start to prepare the team for qualifying for the small matter of a World Cup.

Beckham isn’t match-fit. Right now he needs a pre-season, and only then will he be ready to play at club standard, let alone international standard.

And then if Capello decides to pick him – fair enough.

If he doesn’t – fair enough.

The England manager’s job is not a popularity contest.

There were also a few raised eyebrows about the rest of the squad, and the similarity to the squad that Steve McLaren last picked. Unfortunately we don’t have a limitless number of Englishmen in the Premier League – so it couldn’t be that different could it?

I will be very interested to see what Capello does with the Lampard/Gerrard situation. Lampard won’t play this week (injury), but I believe they should be able to play alongside eachother – and no England manager has managed to harness that yet – I hope Capello is that man. In Ferdinand, Terry, Lampard, Gerrard and Rooney, I still believe that the “Golden Generation” have one last shot with that spine of the team.