SC Soccer Forums SCSoccer.com Forums College, Pro & International Soccer Sven, the kid is only 17?

I'd drop Lennon. Cole, Gerrard and Beckham all need to be on the field.

I've seen Sol spun dizzy more than once this season. He was horrible in his last match before the "meltdown".

How do you feel about Beckham as captain??
I just don't think he's vocal enough and doesn't seem to be the type of personality to fire the players up if we are in a corner.

I agree with you that Terry seems to fit the profile of the captain......but Beckham has earned the title with his play and experience over the years.

The last paragraph from Nick Hornby's essay in the June 2006 issue of National Geographic:

The England fans who went to the 2005 friendly match against Argentina (resulting in a meaningless but enthralling last-minute win) were still singing their "No surrender to the IRA" song, and there's more than a suspicion that they'd rather be watching Terry Butcher and his fixed bayonets than David Beckham, a man who, after all, has been photographed wearing a sarong. But then, that's England all over at the moment. We'd still rather be bombing the Germans; but after 60 years, there's a slowly dawning suspicion that those days aren't coming back any time soon, and in the meantime we must rely on sarong-wearing, multimillionaire pretty boys to kick the Argies for us. We're not happy about it, but what can we do?