Wayne Rooney’s 3-Match Ban: Why Dropping Just Rooney Isn’t Enough

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Published: October 14, 2011

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So UEFA have announced that Wayne Rooney has been banned for three matches at the upcoming European Championships. Many England fans are mourning us losing our best player for the group stages.

Personally, I see it as an opportunity.

Rooney is obviously our best player and possibly our only World Class player, but it's been a long time since he took his A-game or even his B-game to England. He needs to understand he doesn't have a god-given right to start for England.

For the friendlies between now and then, Capello needs to experiment with young players. We have such an amazing group of players coming up, we need to blood them sooner rather than later. Now seems the perfect time.

Start Daniel Sturridge up front with Danny Welbeck. Both know each other well, having played together at youth levels and both are in great form. It makes sense, they also complement each other very well. Welbeck can play the out and out striker role, while Sturridge drifts behind and to the wings to bring Welbeck into play. We can even chuck Carroll in there as well to provide us with a mix of attacking options.

 

Here's the question I have to ask: Why stop there? England have great young talents coming up all over the pitch and our former "Golden Generation" is on its knees.

Let's talk about our defense, during the mid 2000's John Terry and Rio Ferdinand were arguably the best center-back paring in the world, now Ferdinand can't be trusted to stay healthy and Terry is just far to slow to cope with the best players in the world. We could maybe limp one of them through the next European Championships, but nether are going to make it to the 2014 World Cup.

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