At Milan and Madrid, Cappello favoured a 4-2-3-1 system, it worked and allows a lot of variation. The attacking midfielder can act as a support stiker or drop back, the wingers can push forward, come inside or fall back to make a 4-4-1-1, or one of the defensive midfielders can come forward making a 4-1-3-2 or 4-1-4-1 depending on the needs of the team. Shit, it can even become a good-old Engerlish 4-4-2, seeing as how that’s worked wonders for us…

So essentially, making a player undroppable will stop us from being able to pick the players the game requires. Terry’s good, but if King’s fit and we need fast defenders, then it makes sense to use him. And if the game calls for a more controlled midfield sitting back and supplying the forwards, then Hargreaves and Barry make sense. I would say that based on relative strength/weakness in positions, only Rooney is undroppable, but I don’t think that’s a good situation: it just means we have fuck all quality strikers.

And by the way, while Terry is still too agressive a captain for my liking (lead by exapmle, dammit!), this article (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/chelsea/article3455942.ece)
says that JT was sticking up for Mikel, so maybe that bust-up was actually a sign of a good captain.

And, Kevin, Hell yes! Rooney for captain! He’s been quite the good little boy when he’s captained United, so I really think he’s up to it in a year or two.

so therefore i saw go with the young blood in rooney, or even worse go with the seasoned vet, David Beckham, let the superstar run the team again. he wont do any worse than anyone else has in the past years….

on a side note, DB ruined america’s hopes of genuinely making football its number one sport. hands down.

For specific games when the team captain is absent, the player with the most caps wears the armband. The manager does not make a selection. So, to the surprise of many, Marco Materazzi has been the captain a few times.

I know that the England captaincy is viewed differently than in other parts of the footballing world. Mr. Capello had bad relations with Totti and Del Piero at Roma and Juventus, respectively. I don’t know how well he got on with Raul Gonzalez at Real Madrid. Baresi, as we saw in the Soccerlens interview, had a good relationship with Capello.

Given John Terry’s fiery and commanding personality, it would surprise me if he is England captain under Capello. If JT ever confronted Don Fabio as he did with Ten Cate, he wouldn’t play for England, much less be the captain. Which is not taking anything away from his footballing and leadership skills. But reflective of how Capello runs his ship.

Interesting pickle here: If you permanently take the captaincy from Terry, which in principle is what I would do, you risk the situation becoming a distraction, and perhaps dividing the team. I honestly think the reason Mclaren named Terry in the end was because he knew that Stevie G would accept the result with grace, and still give 100% to the England cause. With Terry, I don’t think he would ever quit on the team, but I do think he wouldn’t go silently.
At this point though, why not change it up? You have a frustrated man in Gerrard – giving him the captaincy I think would electrify him, and perhaps this pent-up angst over the current state of ‘Pool would spill over into him becoming a more vocal, demonstrative leader for the 3 Lions.
Not too vocal though. This is the reason I don’t like Terry as the captain of England. He simply is too much of a hot-head. It is strange, because when the ball is in play, I think he is one of the coolest heads around, absolutely stoic. Once the play stops though, he is always SCREAMING…scream at this player, at the ref, at the linesman, at the other team. Having competitive fire and leading with emotion is good. However, JT boils over too much, criticiczes too much and complains too much.