Friday, 11 August 2006
Bent & Young back in but no sign of Parker
Strangely despite being originally named in the England U21 squad and Steve McClaren going to the effort of explaining the reasons here, Darren Bent was this morning named in the full squad for the friendly against Greece next Wednesday. And with Luke Young recalled too, this has to be a great boost for the club with only 8 days to the new season.
Dean Ashton, who we were linked with continuously before his big money move to West Ham is also included and rightly so in my mind are Kieran Richardson, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Michael Dawson. Sensibly Rooney is not in as he will miss the European qualifiers due to suspension and there is no place for ex-captain David Beckham. Will the talismatic Becks be left with 94 caps?
There was also no mention of Scott Parker. He and us can only wonder if things might have turned out differently if he'd stayed at Charlton. ¶ 12:26
Dean Ashton, who we were linked with continuously before his big money move to West Ham is also included and rightly so in my mind are Kieran Richardson, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Michael Dawson. Sensibly Rooney is not in as he will miss the European qualifiers due to suspension and there is no place for ex-captain David Beckham. Will the talismatic Becks be left with 94 caps?
There was also no mention of Scott Parker. He and us can only wonder if things might have turned out differently if he'd stayed at Charlton. ¶ 12:26
