I think if you're considering Hart world class, you'd probably have to put Rooney in there, even if he doesn't do it for England. Hart's in the top 20 goalkeepers in the world, and you could probably argue Rooney's in or around the top 20 strikers in the world, given there are far more strikers than goalkeepers, it's only fair to put Rooney in that bracket.



Me personally, English football (and players) has slightly dropped during the past couple of years. With players like Lampard, Gerrard, Cole and Ferdinand aging/declining, there hasn't really been any young English players stepping up to their kind of level. Wilshere probably will, Sturridge, Chamberlain and Jones will probably be there soon, but for now, I don't think there are any English players who I look at and instantly think "I'd pick him in my top 30 players in the world". Sure, I'd pick the likes of Silva, RvP and Suarez, but no English players.

Great effort. i thought about it.

People can say what they like about Harry, fact is he has done a great job with Spurs in the last few years. As it is we seem to be left with Pearce for the Euros which will be a disaster. He has already said he isn't up to the job long term so why does he think he can do it through a major championship? He's awful and no PL club would even touch him.

The clamour for Redknapp has been so loud that no self respecting manager would consider putting themselves forward for the job.



At least if Redknapp does get the job it will be possible to pinpoint the exact moment when he loses the support of the press, when one of them dares to ask him the question "How do we know you're telling us the truth?"

Anyone know who the other Biggish club after Pompey are that is in real trouble?

Redknapp the only manager that could tempt Scholes out of retirement. Deary me, it's wrong on so many levels.

KK the only manager that could tempt Kevin Kegan out of retirement would make you cream though, right?

On the whole England situation...why not appoint the best person for the job? Regardless of what they have or haven't won or whether or not the media love him or whether they are English or not.



IMO, Redknapp has got the right pedigree for the job, so say his chums (media) anyway.

KK = King Kenny one would imagine.

I've heard a rumour of Forest, but that's pure speculation.

Please fill us all in on Harry's pedigree to manage England.



I mean, he's had to deal with the Collosi at Southampton and Portsmouth, hasn't he.



He's won ONE pot in his managerial career (30 years), he's had ONE job at a club of decent repute, so please inform us of Twitcher's pedigree. The only pedigree Harry's got, is CHUM, for that dog of his, that's got a large bank account

Why is Robbie Savage a pundit? Do the BBC have him just for the ''shock/big mouth'' factor, or just because he was on Strictly and they now need to put him on anything just like they did with Chris Friggin Hollins

cheating biting diving spitting hair pulling racist remains an unpleasant individual

It was a blatant pen.

Agreed.

there was contact, but the sentiment remains, not sure how Halsey saw it though

They just showed the pen incident again because of the long injury delay for Arteta. Their shins clearly came together. The way that Suarez was running he would have had to fight hard to stay on his feet, but why in hell should he do that? it's the kepper who has tripped him and a pen is the correct decision. I don't think it should have been a red card for the keeper, but it was much closer to a red card than it was to a non pen.

Reina shouldn't be getting beaten at the near post.

Ridiculous result at Anfield. No doubt Wenger will be putting it all down to their resolve and belief, but in truth they have robbed the win when they should have been well beaten.

As Jamie literally just said, if you have a striker as good as RVP you literally always have a chance

Let's not forget though, just 6 short days ago, Liverpool fans (and Cornish will obviously back this up), were telling us it's not how you win, as long as you do. Let's see how many are on here by the end of today complaining about Arsenal not deserving it.

Today's game was the story of our season, to be honest. Created a lot, missed a lot, gifted them enough. I only saw the second half as I've been in work, but I seen enough to know we were better than them, but I could say that for pretty much all of our home games this season, the result's tell a different story; we've not been good enough.



I didn't think we were going to get the top 4, but we're now definitely too far off IMO. We simply cannot have a record like ours at home and expect to finish above the top 5 sides (no disrespects Newcastle, but I still think you'll drop a few places between now and the season's end).

Surely questions have to be asked of a manager who wastes £60m on a strike force, and then ends up with the problem that you cite??....

And risk heresy?