In all honesty Crouch is a quality player, I hate that Liverpool let him go.

The problemS (plural) England have are....
1. Frank Lampard, he's not what you need in a CM. He is greedy and only wants to score. Gerrard is more well rounded but he's best going forward. If Barry was fit you may have seen a different result

2. Your defense sucks

3. Goalkeeper

4. You lack a creative distributor of the ball, Rooney and Gerrard can't do it all

....If I was coaching England I would maybe tinker with the idea of playing Lampard at CF but whatever is done the Gerrard/Lampard tandem doesn't work


I'm hoping Tim Howard is ok, but I think even if he can't go we'll be OK