Buzzin Football

In an international England friendly football match where Frank Lampard equalled Martin Peters appearances and David Beckham equalled Bobby Moore’s record 108 England caps for an outfield player, Fabio Capello’s England team played with true grit and determination but were completely out-classed by a wonderful Spain team.

The gulf between the only two European teams to have won all four of their World Cup qualifying games was clear to see.  Spain were comfortable on the ball and showed such tight control, with near perfect first touch. Where as England looked to rush a pass, quicken the pace; and with a poor first touch, the England players were so tired chasing the game, and anytime they managed to win the ball, they were too tired to do anything with it.

Spain looked as good as they did last summer in the Euro 2008 and are quite possibly the best football national team in the world today. Tonight in Seville was the third time Spain have beaten England in the past two years, and they deserved it with two fantastic goals.

David Beckham came on to play the whole of the second half along with Frank Lampard, Robert Green, Matthew Upson and Peter Crouch. They were joined midway thorugh the second half by West Ham’s Carlton Cole.  They replaced Stewart Downing, Gareth Barry, David James, Phil Jagielka, Emille Heskey and Gabriel Agbonlahor, respectively.

The England team players  who played the full match were Glenn Johnson, Ashley Cole, John Terry, Michael Carrick and Shaun Wright-Phillips.

Of all the England players, David Beckham’s performance was head and shoulders above all others.  I cannot believe anyone can doubt that David Beckham is still one of the best 22 England players in the world, and continues to outplay wide players such as Stewart Downing and Shaun Wright-Phillips, who tonight were preferred to David Bentley, Aaron Lennon and Ashley Young.

I’d like to hear from ANYONE who STILL argues as to whether David Beckham is good enough to be included in the England team.  And yes, over the past 12 years, David Beckham has proved he is as important a player for England as the late, great Bobby Moore.