england's world cup starting 11 revealed

We don't think the papers have got hold of this yet, but we have it on good authority that Capello and Baldini nipped into the boys toilets at Fruit Towers and chalked up the team on our blackboard...

  

Controversially, they've gone for Albert (or Tom) Finney ahead of Ashley Cole, and it's good to see Yoda back in the starting line up after a long lay off. Bullard will always give you 160% in the engine room, and Tuffers is set to form a strong right hand side, with the Dark Knight himself in front of him. And those centre backs...no-one's going to get past those two.

You can compare this with the sparse team selection of a couple of months ago to see how much thinking has changed in a relatively short space of time.

Come on England.

Comments

[neilperkin]

Where's Han Solo? He's been on top form ever since he got over that carbon freezing business

[john v willshire]

There's rumours that Solo's been 'frozen out' of the dressing room...

[Hugo Bennett]

Obviously Solo isn't much of a team player.
I'd definitely have Super Ted as my flying winger.

[Rob]

Not sure about Roger Milla, I reckon he might be a little bit past his prime these days..