Do England really need to be playing France on Saturday? (Football in General)

Name: stanlee73

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Product:	Football in General
Date:	31/08/00 (220 review reads)
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Advantages: Its England, and we'll always love them

Disadvantages: FA weren't thinking long term when they booked this friendly

After the disasterous Euro 2000 and the long list of injuries (typical) English international football is at its lowest point for over a decade. Now, is perhaps not the best time to be taking on the first ever simultaneous World and European champions in their own back yard, is it?

On a positive note, a good performance, however unlikely is sure to raise the nations footballing spirits and recreate some old hero's as well as introducing some new ones.

On a realistic note however, England, in their first "post Shearer" game have a whopping 3 fully fit strikers to choose from, one of which being the untested Alan Smith. Smith, who is undoubtedly a great talent, is surely not ready for the meanest defence in World football.

So, surely defeat is on the cards, I have never been an advocator of "setting your stall out" but on Saturday, damage limitation may be the name of the game. Everyone would love to see the new look England adopt King Kevin's famous cavallier approach, lets just hope we can grind out a draw and work on the rest later. Nobody wants to see us lose by a margin, so keep it tight Kevin!

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