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Quote Originally Posted by BIG H View Post
This was being discussed on the radio ths morning. Obviously in 1990 we used a Sweeper, but I have to say I like the look of the 1990 team better than today's team.

Here are the line ups. I have put in Red which player I would have from the two options


GK Shilton Green
DL Pearce Cole
DR Parker Johnson
DC Butcher Terry
DC Walker Rio
DC Wright King (DMC)
WIDE Waddle Lennon
MC Platt Lampard
MC Gascoigne Gerard
FC Lineker Rooney
FC Beardlsey Heskey



Some tough ones to chose. I can't actually split Pearce and A.Cole and it;s very hard to pick against Rooney, but I had to on the basis that Lineker is proven in world cups and scored 10 world cup final goals and being the only England player ever to get the Golden Boot at the World Cup. Gerard and Gascoigne is another very hard one to call, but I went fro Gascoigne on the basis of his ability to chnage a game with a moment of brilliance.

looking at this apart from Lineker I have to agree with you - Gary could score but Roo can score and create (and from outside the 6 yard box )

Its a real shame the rooney owen partnership never got going with Owen's premature decline. The ultimate goal poacher alongside a workhorse and supplier could have paid dividends.

Some nervey moments ahead over next few weeks thats for sure.........

sad but true

Rooney has absoloutely nobody to play off, you also have to wonder how it would now look had shaun wright phillips not taken out dean ashton (who many believed was the next shearer) with a 2 footed challenge in training