You lot just don't get it do you....every side has to have an Owen Hargreaves...if it wasn't Hargreaves then it would be Phil Neville....the role is to make all the others feel good about themselves, by attracting the flak, and allowing the other fellas to think...I'm better than him....so I should be in the England squad.
At the last WC Brazil had a choice.. Roque Junior or Kleberson....this WC look out for Fred.
This is absoultely true Reg, and something I have often pondered on. There must be some rule written down by FIFA that all FA's also ensure is carried out at league level.
STFC for example, even during one of our best periods of the early 90's had Shaun Close sniffing around the team. Arsenal in their 1980's George Graham period had plenty of players taking on this mantle. Man Utd had Phil Neville and even Chelsea insist on playing some big lump of nothing upfront for a lot of their games. Real Madrid even find space for Bravo amongst their highly paid galaxy of stars. Last season, we took this to new levels by trying to have only 1 good player in the team each week!
