Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
Why you wouldn't start Crouch is beyond me, he's a quality striker and helps out a bunch with set pieces as well as with winning headers and pushing play forward.

The US COULD have a player like that in Kenny Cooper but Bob Bradley refuses to play him for some reason.
capello has stated endless times rooney-defoe just cant work and what does he go and do...

Completely agree about crouch he is tailor made for sides like egypt. The problem within crouchy comes into play when we get in with the big boys come quarter final time and you need both your strikers to be mixing it up in the middle of the park as well as tracking back.

Wayne rooney hasnt all of a sudden become this world class player just because he is now banging them in left, right and centre. His workload is truly immense for man utd and you often will see him covering at left back or making an important tackle inside his own area

fantastic player and one that we should wrap up in cotton wool until the summer and release him to the world and let him try and win us a world cup