Aaron Cresswell
Roy Hodgson’s reluctance to pick Aaron Cresswell has perplexed plenty of football experts, not just West Ham fans.
After joining from Championship outfit Ipswich in the summer of 2014, Cresswell surpassed everyone’s expectations to be crowned ‘Hammer of the Year’. Sturdy defensive showings were complimented by his ability to get forward and produce quality balls into the box.
However, the 25-year-old somehow finds himself missing out to Ryan Bertrand – who has been injured for most of this season and Kieran Gibbs, who is second-choice left back at Arsenal.
He probably also sits behind Tottenham’s second choice left back, Danny Rose and Everton’s perpetually injured Leighton Baines so his England chances look unreasonably slim.
Verdict – Good enough.
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Great read and whilst I agree that they may not warrant a place in England sides of old the current crop being played are very weak and when I watched the game on Friday I felt all of these players could have given as good as or better account of themselves than those currently holding down a place. How Woy can replace a defensive midfielder of Carrick with Lingard who from what I know is more of a wide player defies logic even before you look at the fact the kid has played 3 premiership games. This surely had to be a time to bring in Noble? Contradicting myself here a bit but I don’t think Noble will be in the West Ham side much longer but in the England set up we don’t have a Song, Kouyate, Obiang, Moses, Lanzini, Zarate or a Payet. And given the fact Carrick will be 34 at the time of the Euros why is he even in the squad for the warm ups? Woy is an enigma I personally don’t think has a clue.
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