Surprising news this morning that Aston Villa’s Emile Heskey has rejected the opportunity to come out of international retirement and play again for England.
Emile Heskey – he’s certainly not England’s future
With Jermaine Defoe and Bobby Zamora both out injured right now it seems that England manager Fabio Capello has asked the 32 year-old striker to help out with England’s striker crisis.
Capello had explained earlier this week:
“I saw Emile against Wolves and he played very well. He is in very good form.” “We need him at this moment and we will try and speak to him. We are talking about one game against Montenegro so he will have to decide.”
It seems amazing that after Heskey’s poor form in the World Cup, not to mention he’s scored just 7 goals in 62 appearances for England, that Capello would think of going back to a player who is well past his best.
And the recent form of West Ham’s Carlton Cole is not good and he was recently benched by new manager Avram Grant.
Fabio should be building for the future and thinking of drafting the new young guns of England, such as Andy Carroll of Newcastle, as just one example.
The news is that Heskey turned down the approach because it was just for the one game, so that’s probably for the best, and will force Fabio to look at some of the younger England players for the future, which is what the FA want him to do in any case.
Comments welcome.
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1 MacToon // Oct 4, 2010 at 6:42 PM
Didn’t Hesky injure Ferdinand in training just before the world cup, bit of a liability tbh…. like capello maybe.
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