David James: “We (England) heaped pressure on ourselves”
By: b-man | November 26th, 2007
“At the last hurdle we switched goalkeepers and heaped pressure on ourselves. But we needn’t have done. There were many opportunities to try out a variety of England goalkeepers. So why didn’t we?” James told The Observer.
“Did sitting on the bench prepare Scotty for being in goal against Croatia, five days after his senior England debut, with the fate of the nation resting on his shoulders? Scotty is a great keeper.
“He will undoubtedly become England’s number one in the future, but he didn’t need to be put in that position, he should never have reached the Croatia game so poorly equipped in terms of experience.”
James is just echoeing the opinion of pretty much everyone I’ve spoken to in the aftermath of the faiure to qualify. Is he perhaps a little bitter or at least dissapointed that he wasn’t selected? To be honest I feel that was the last opportunity for James to be involved in an important game for England what with him being 38 and England not qualifying
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