Liverpool fans see him as a decent player (not a great player) who does a job and keeps improving and so should england fans. It isn’t his fault the svennis-turd didn’t take any other fit strikers.

Ok, fine, Crouchie would not gain any credit for looking sensible enough to be taken seriously so he just has to let his football do that instead…. and he does, pretty well at that!

But then there is one player who has a face like thunder, is uglier than a bull terrier and a temper to match. Yup, that’s Rooney for you. Anyone want to start a petition to have him dropped from the England team (apart from for the next two games as that said temper has already achieved that for him!) permanently? No, I didn’t think so.

Come to that, Messrs Carragher, Ferdinand, Neville and others are just as naff on the looks front but they all cut it as footballers perfectly well. So what if these people have beautiful hangers on for WAGs? They are not there because of these guys irresistability I can assure you. Well, maybe their bank balance is the irresistable bit for them!

So come on, get off Crouch’s back. He did well in the World Cup in the two games he started. Then he gets dropped by that Swedish Ignoramus our Sour FA paid obscene amounts of money to for the last few years despite him being worse than useless as a national team coach. The player we were all told we should pray desperately would be fit and ready for the World Cup did get his fitness in time, and then blew it. Yet we are all told not to givbe him grief over it despite the fact his two-match ban in the Euro qualifiers will probably see us fail to qualify for that tournament as well.

Crouchie is a gangly stick insect of a man but he is a very good player and valuable to both England and Liverpool. That’s his job, that’s what he is paid for and he has proven well worth the money so that is the end of it! Give him a break!