Comments on: England’s No.1?

By: bowburnmag

bowburnmag — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:25:24 +0000

Back in the the day – Kerry Dixon, Iain Dowie, Alan Pardew.

Ever so slightly more recently – Mackem Phillips, Steve Guppy, Stan Collymore

More recently – DJ Campbell

By: CLiNT FLiCK

CLiNT FLiCK — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:14:13 +0000

toonsy,
didn’t ian wright & Sir Les come out of non league football?

By: toonsy

toonsy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:55:20 +0000

chuck – You raise a good point about Beckford and the 1 game thing. Unfortunately, your point will fall on deaf ears of anyone thinking of selling him such as Ken Bates, who will now see the opportunity to get more money for the boy. Despite yesterday, its still a gambke signing Beckford, if we do. How many players have come from non-league and cut it in the prem? Not many. Currently i can think of Jimmy Bullard. The championship has a few more, such as Aaron McClean and George Boyd at Peterborough, and i’d imagine League 1 has even more.

Its a fine balancing act really. We need to get players who can help finish the job off this season, and i think Beckford can help in that department, but we also need to have at least half of one eye looking at the premiership. Can he consistently do a job there? I guess we need to wait and see.

By: chuck

chuck — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:15:10 +0000

Look to-days game was an aberration, sure Beckford scored, great, I`m happy for the kid, he must be on the high of his life.
But it does`nt make him Berbatov.
So lets not get carried away, eh!

By: chuck

chuck — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:08:18 +0000

Hey where are the England goalies ?
Harper is probably as good as most out there, dont understand it, since the days of Frank Swift, who ?
England has always produced great goalies, what went wrong.

WOR BOBBY
If he Harper was as good as Seamus, how come he sat on the bench for ten years, let`s not get carried away here and face it we are not defending against PL sides.

By: Wor Bobby

Wor Bobby — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:06:20 +0000

You could never question Shearer’s ambition for coming to Newcastle so why would people question Steve Harper for staying??? He is surely the finest example of a committed player – unlike Seamus.

I have always thought that Harper is just as good a shot stopper as Shay Given, anyway – nearly. In Shay’s absence, before it all went tits up last season, Harper always put in a good shift for us.

Harper’s confidence has shone this season and he’s doing a cracking job as results are showing.
If given the chance, I would not feel worried in the slightest seeing him between the sticks for England.

By: bowburnmag

bowburnmag — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:04:47 +0000

Cheers John, but it was nowt to do with me really…

Where’s me coat?

By: John

John — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:42 +0000

Looked like a fair summary to me. Forgot about Carson at West Brom being capped, and it does seem to be a good argument that a keeper needs games and confidence. England doesn’t have much in the way of consistent keepers at the moment.

Good job offloading Geremi anyway.

By: d.calverley

d.calverley — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:58:17 +0000

I like the article and I feel it raises a good point that he should get a look in, but for me it would be just down to the form he has been in this season. You can’t go comparing stats inbetween leagues because there is no comparison. For instance after 24 games (League) last season we had cenceeded 40 goals, whereas this season after 24 games (League) we have conceeded 14. Does this make Harper better than Given? Or is it just the sheer fact that Yes Harper has played well, but also our defence isn’t torn to shreds by the attackers in the championship as it was in the Premiership last term?
All that aside, I would love to see Big Steve in a 3 Lions No. 1 shirt!!!

By: bowburnmag

bowburnmag — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:46:21 +0000

Beckford’s got 20 goals though and Berbatov’s only got 4. Beckford has proved he can score against Man Utd this season whereas Berbatov hasn’t.

I think the stats tell the story pretty well…;)