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Ahh, Alan, you know if he was Scottish he'd have 54 caps by now

Its the unexpected, but personally I think its a masterstroke, no-ones looking at Lennon or Downing. They're the ones who might give us a different angle, Walcotts just there for experience.

Work experience you mean. As one of the ball boys, or perhaps he'll be the mascot Beckham leads out.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002 ... 73,00.html



And that's about all the info you get on it on the website, other than massively long quotes from Graham Taylor and Jimmy Greaves. But on Sky Sports News there was more to it, doctors being amazed at how well he's recovering etc.

You shouldn't need him for the group games.

But if you have to face Germany in the last 16... Can you imagine the hysteria around England and esp. Rooney for that game?

(and yes, England should beat this current German team 9 times out of 10, but IN Germany, DURING a World Cup, with refereeing bias for the home side, like any WC? As Ray Liotta says in the Heineken adverts in his best Bugs Bunny voice: "... then it becomes a different maaaaaa-tter!")