Forget Capello - you pick the team

Fabio Capello is the new England manager, so we thought it would be nice to give you, the readers, a chance to pick your favoured line-up and give the cultured Italian a chance to hit the ground running with your insight.

We have chosen a 4-4-2 formation for simplicity's sake. It may be tactically naive on the world stage, but it's astute at blog level. So choose your goalkeeper, defence, midfield and attack from the four polls below (you can choose multiple options where applicable, but try to avoid Steve McClaren's mistake of selecting four central defenders) and click the 'vote' button.

We are restricted to ten choices for each area of the team and your votes are measured as a percentage of how many readers voted for a particular player. Therefore, if everyone votes for both Gerrard and Lampard (you wouldn't would you?) both players will have a 100 per cent vote count. If there is a player missing that you would have preferred to select please let us know in the comments section below.

Away you go. Give us an England team to be proud of.

Click on the blue link to make your selections:

Opinion Polls & Market Research

Opinion Polls & Market Research

Opinion Polls & Market Research

Opinion Polls & Market Research

Okay, so now you know what it is going to be like for the thousands of co-managers of Ebbsfleet United each week. Hopefully, the FA will see the results of your choices and consider saving £5 million a year on Capello. "We have consulted The Game blog and the team to play Kazakhstan will be..." a beaming Brian Barwick says.

Comments

[hari]

i think becks is very important for the team & he he should be selected when he is fully match fit...he can deliver precise crosses though he may not have the pace or elusiveness now but still he can score few imp goals through free kicks,penalties & from long range...
rooney & owen(when fully match fit) can run through any defence...thr is still football left for owen....until then walcott should be given a chance with rooney to develop..
gerrard can play at left mid & lampard at right mid ,beckham at right winger ,joe cole as left winger...
if things go wrong lampard can be substituted by hagreavas to support defence...
in defence England has always been good rock solid
only goalie is a prob for england...
i hope England bounces back!!!!!1

[lloyd]

think we should give up on the gerrard and lampard thing and let them fight for one place.

my team to start with would be (possibly with keeper change)

james/green

richards/neville ferdinand terry cole

bentley gerrard hargreaves cole

rooney owen ( ashton if either out)

[bushstafa]

Oh yeah Aaron Lennon is way down now, like 5th choice behind Wright-Phillips, Beckham, Bently and Agbonlahor mainly because he's weak and lacking in manlyness.

Young is shizznit and obviously comes ahead of Lennon as he is a natural left footer who plays on the left as opposed to Lennon who isn't and doesn't.

Scholes is never coming back. He is the best English midfielder by a mile when he can stand upright and because of that he is never coming back. Do you think he missed the last World Cup for fun? Well I do, he knew what a god awful time it would be, people attaching synonyms to his partner, his team mates inability to take penalties etc. So he thought screw that, I'm gonna enjoy myself. He's never coming back.

[bushstafa]

In goal I'd give Carson some more experience before ousting him for Foster. Anyone who says James is a fool.

Terry has had it, not only is he injured but he's slow when he's fit and goes around making stupid tackles trying to be a hard man.

I say Brown/Ferdinand/Richards/Cole

Black at the back baby, it's the way forward. Richards can't play Full Back anymore anyway and he's faster and better than Terry.

Gerard's lost it for Liverpool and England, Frampard ins't much better right now.
Wright-Phillips/Carrick/Hargreves/Cole

Carrick will always supply the attacking players simple. There's a strong case for Young also.

Owen is never gonna stand on his own two feet long enough to play an international tournament, stop day dreaming it's over.

Rooney/Walcott

Short on height yes but remember Crouch can't head the ball anyway. Walcott is the natural successor to Owen and still nobody knows why he was wasted in the U-21s by McLaren.

[Sharif]

interesting to note the lack of support for lampard on the voting?

also interesting to see hargreaves getting lots of votes. he was the unfancied man 2 years ago. my my, how things change.

also sad that we don't really have confidence in any one goalkeeper - as the voting clearly shows.

4-4-2

green

neville, ferdinand, terry, cole

beckham (c), hargreaves, gerrard, cole

owen, rooney

(hargreaves sits deep, gerrard roams)

give me £4 million/year. thank you very much...

[clayton]

I say jettison lampard and gerrard for a while (we've got a year) until they're really nusting a gut to get back in the team. Give some promising youth a solid run.

(Right To Left)

Green

Richards
Ferdinand
Terry (c)
Cole

Hargreaves
Michael Magic Johnson

Joe Cole

Ashley Young
Dean Ashton
Wayne Rooney

[CJ Ross]

Please Fabio, please, do not make Saint Gerrard your captain.
I know he is the greatest player to ever grace the game, but don't let that cloud your judgment.
The captain needs a certain degree of intelligence. He needs organisational skills. He needs genuine leadership. Gerrard, as shown (again) over the weekend, does not possess these things.
If leading by example means trying long-range shooting and hollywood passes, he's your man.
But I think the captain needs to be better equipped mentally, regardless of his god-given ability.

[A Syed]

Green

Richards
Terry(c)
Ferdinand
A.Cole

Hargreaves

Beckham (vc)
Lampard
J.Cole

Owen
Rooney

(Formation 4-1-3-2)

[darren j]

where is Heskey?
More impact in 2 games than Rooney had throughout the campaign.

[keith morel]

Robinson

M. Richards Terry Rio A. Cole

Stevie G

Hargrives Barry

J.Cole Rooney

Ashton

[chris]

Surely who the opponents are should come into it? Against a top nation, where we needed to be more defensive I would play Hargreaves, Barry or Carrick, plus Lampard and Gerrard and three up front - Rooney, Owen and either Croch or Joe Cole.
Otherwise, leave the defensive midfielder on the bench and play Wright-Phillips, Joe Cole, Lamps and Stevie G, with two up front.
The trick is getting them on the training pitch together for long enough to know what their jobs are when the game starts for real.

[Greg P]

I'd go with (in a 4-2-3-1 formation):

Carson

Richards
Terry
King
A Cole

Hargreaves
Barry

Gerrard
Rooney
J Cole

Crouch

It's a system that Capello used in the 2nd half of last season at Madrid, with Rooney taking the role that Raul played. 2 holding midfielders protecting the defence and allowing the full-backs to push forward.

Just a personal opinion, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's something that Fabio tries.

[Craig Dunphy]

Where is Aaron Lennon? Surely he's ahead of Young and Abolongahor and Walcott?

Scholes and Carragher would be nice too, hopefully they will make themselves available

[alex]

88% for gerrard? is that a joke
he is awful in an england shirt

We have to look to the future. Capello's job is to prepare a team to win the 2010 World Cup. Therefore we need a team that will peak in 2010. There is little point in winning all our games up until the World Cup and then crashing out in the early stages of the competition. I have faith in the slightly erratic Italian and I am sure he will pick the right team with the right set up. Hopefully the future is bright - in bocca al lupo Fabio!