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Very much so. Carroll, Defoe, even Deeney could benefit from some injuries. And at one time Walcott would have been designated a striker. Under this scenario, he might even miss out.

The only person I feel a bit sorry for is Defoe, but that is because a) I rate the bloke as a finisher, even at that level and b) he has been utterly shafted in the past, notably 2006 and probably again in 2014. In 2010 he scored a vital finals group winner, in 2008 McClaren cocked up the...

I think the make-up of the squad is one area that England have got badly wrong in some of the big international tournaments in the past 20 years or so. Basically, strikers win you these things and we have usually taken four out of the 23. Many countries take five, and that's what I think we...