Four Selected

Humza... Why taking it so personal?

A punch in Ferdinand's face.He didn't expect to be dropped.

why take carroll and downing instead of sturridge. clearly the age is getting to him.

Sturridge can come on and make an impact as a sub. Downing has been awful all season. It's an odd decision in my opinion. I'm also surprised to see the exclusion of Micah Richards, a good player who deserves to be in there.

Ol Roy has Cajones..i will give him that..that is what it took for him to pick JT (despite the fact he actually merited a spot) and drop Rio (though he certainly did not merit a spot and even SAF essentially said so). Rio will be steaming about this..watch out for what he says and/or tweets about this. The Downing decision is a head scratcher for me and i feel Micah richards is a way better RB than Glen Johnson. I do agree however that it makes far more sense to have Carroll than Sturridge. That young man needs to refer to the 7 summer lessons i suggested for him so time back to help him become a complete player that can be relied upon by his team..till then he will be mostly hype and potential rather than substance. Having seen this line up and seen that Roy actually gave Chelsea players a more than fair shake i cannot but wish him and the three lions well..i am part English and though i consider myself first a yank, my mom is English by birth and i was born in London myself and carry a British passport in addition to my American one..Best of wishes at the Euros..England will certainly need it...to get to the quarters will be incredible..i cant even imagine what the nation will do if England won the whole thing (very very unlikely but you never know..stranger things have happened..the Greeks and the Danes have won this tournament you know!!!).

@GabeU, actually, Roy is a joker. His reason for not picking Ferdinand was because he had played only 1 game. If that was the case, why did he make Steven Gerrard the Captain of the England national squad. Gerrard has only played 33 minutes of football for the national team. Secondly, he said he liked Chamberlian's performance against AC Milan especially against a midfield of Ambrosini and Pirlo. Pirlo is at Juventus and Ambrosini did not even follow AC Milan to London for that match....Downing - 0 goals and 0 assists...They are other hard working wingers for England such as Adam Johnson? QUITE FRANKLY, the guy is a clown. Not supporting England in the Euros so doesn't bother me one bit.

Agree KAKU, wouldn't surprise me if we cashed in this summer. Shame because there's a great player in there if he could get his attitude right. Don't really get the fuss about Rio either. He hasn't been in good form for years (even when he was, he could never actually concentrate for a whole 90 mins without making one serious goal costing **** up!) and is too much of a risk to take to a tournament anyway because he is injury prone these days. If it came down to a straight choice between him and JT (which is stupid if it did) then it must have been the easiest choice Woy had to make. JT's form has been superb lately, Liverpool aside (and I suspect a hangover there!), he's the best English CB by a country mile!

This Squad selection looks like Roy wanted to satisfy the club Quota in National Team...almost similar representative from all big clubs....No reason why Holt, Crouch not selected...I agree atleast take the reason behind Caroll, but Downing, Milner...Sorry...Johnson, Lennon, Carrick way better than these. I am not very sure how Roy is going to make the formation. Looks more like the old 4-4-2 style, but i think a 4-3-3 will give england a good chance in Euros with the team of Hart, GJ-GC-JT-AC, FL-Parker-SGer,Young-OX,Roo (Welbeck/carroll) for 1st 2 games