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Back Story
My First England selection
Final Group Table
Our World cup group
Final Group.
As the game wore on Joachim Lowe's side became more and more dominate in terms of possession but my five man defense (Clyne, Shawcross, Cahill, Jagielka, Cole) repelled everything that was thrown at it, finally in the 85th minute English footballs 48 years of hurt came to an end as the Germans allowed us to get revenge for the semi final heartbreaks at their hands at Italia 90' and Euro 96' as a Mats Hummels planted the ball past his own goalkeeper to send the Three Lions into the world cup final for the first time since 1966 with surprise package Belgium waiting.
Germany are defeated as England march in to the final
World Cup Final 2014 Starting XI's
Belgium started their first ever World cup final brightly with Hazard causing Nathanial Clyne problems cutting inside from the flanks, the girth of Benteke was neutralized by the equally physically impressive Ryan Shawcross and Gary Cahill as we absorbed the pressure, the Belgians began to get frustrated at their inability to break through our defense which had only conceded three goals in the entire tournament, and they were all back in the group stage. Finally we punished their impotency in the 41st minute as Peter Crouch chested down a long ball from Clyne midway inside Belgium's half before knocking the ball bast Thomas Vermaelen to go clean through on Thibault Courtouis's goal where he calmly slotted the ball beneath the dive of the Chelsea keeper to score the most important goal in English football since Geoff Hurst in 1966, a goal which ultimately proved enough to see captain Steven Gerrard lift footballs ultimate prize before the 76,000 strong crowd inside the Maracana stadium.
Crouch's six goals see him finish second in the scoring chart behind Javier Hernadez, Joe Hart is crowned best goalkeeper and is also named in the FIFA dream team alongside Crouch, Ryan Shawcross and Nathanial Clyne. Crouch is now just six goals behind Bobby Charlton in England's all time scorers list.
Our Euro 2016 qualifying group.
The group with four game to go
Summer 2015 transfers.
England Players debuted under me (caps/goals since)
I've been quite experimental with my squad selections, particularly in friendly's, as long as a player is in form for his club at the time his reputation doesn't matter to me;
Charlie Austin (11/4) Nathan Baker (1/0) Ryan Bennett (6/0) Ryan Bentrand (6/0) Jack Butland (2/0) Sam Byram (3/0) Lee Cattermole (2/0) Steven Caulker (3/0) Tom Cleverley (2/0) Nathanial Clyne (24/4) Chris Cohen (2/0) Jack Cork (7/0) Aaron Cresswell (7/0) Frasier Forster (11/0) Danny Graham (15/3) Tommy Hoban (2/0) Grant Holt (2/0) Johnny Howson (13/1) Will Hughes (9/0) Tom Ince (1/0) Adam Lallana (1/0) Adam Le Fondre (6/6) Matthew Lowton (1/0) Mark Noble (5/1) Jay Rodriguez (1/1) Danny Rose (2/0) John Ruddy (6/0) Ryan Shawcross (36/11) Jason Steele (1/0) John Stones (5/0) Steven Taylor (2/0) James Tomkins (8/0) James Ward-Prowse (4/0) Ben Watson (2/0) Ashley Westwood (5/2) Mike Williamson (1/0)
Tommo.
Goalkeepers
Swiss international Yann Sommer will be my number one as he was last season, Jake Kean will likely be my cup keeper whilst young Will Piortrowski provides cover should anything happen to them.
Center backs
As I mentioned before I utilize a wing-back system so I need three solid center backs to hold the fort at the back whilst the wing-backs get forward, Steven Taylor is my new captain and will be the rock around which the defense is built, Ryan Bennett and Spanish international Jordi Amat are my preferred partners for Taylor with Winston Reid and Gary Medel offering solid rotation options, young Frenchman Cileus Joachim looks a great prospect for the future after we snapped him up from PSG this summer.
Wing backs
England U21 James Husband is a new arrival after we swooped to bring him from Doncaster Rovers where he had requested a transfer to improve his chances of selection for England (on my advice)
Nathanial Clyne is now a house hold name after his sterling performances throughout the World cup triumph, he and Luke Shaw who himself may get his first call up from me soon are equally adept at getting forward as they are defending. I'm in the process of training Andy King to play in the position as he seems to have all the attributes required and proberly won't get much football in his natural central midfield role considering the wealth of talent we have ahead of him in the pecking order.
Midfield
We don't lack for talent in this department, Spaniards Javi Garcia and Mikel Arteta will run the show from the middle of the park, both are capable of defending as well as supporting the attack, enabling James Ward-Prowse to drive forward and become almost a third forward.
Jack Collison and Chris Cohen are both good at holding the ball when needed whereas Jake Livermore is a talented ball winner who will be useful when playing a team who play possession football.
Forwards
With six forwards on the books it may be difficult to keep them all happy, although it will be good to have plenty of cover for our Europa league campaign, Usually I play a poacher with a supporting targetman which Jordan Rhodes and Peter Crouch fit the bill perfectly for, as do Adam Le Fondre and Ricky Lambert. Pablo Osvaldo and Jay Rodriguez were also a good partnership last season and were largely the reasons we were able to climb away from danger so fast.
No he departed for Newcastle in the Summer before I joined Southampton.
Both games were tight, however we were able to grind out the results we needed, beating Bulgaria 2-0 in Sofia (Wilshire, Rooney) and then just about getting the upper hand on Turkey thanks to a second half Nathanial Clyne strike. Eight games down and not a single goal conceded is a testament to the strength of my back line which new captain Ryan Shawcross is marshaling magnificently.
There were two debutantes in the squad this time, Liverpool's Jonjo Shelvey came on as a second half sub against Bulgaria and impressed enough to earn a starting place against Turkey, could he be the heir to Steven Gerrard? My very own left wing back Luke Shaw also came from the bench in Sofia, he has been consistently excellent for my Southampton side and deserved his chance on the big stage, whether he will hold of Leighton Baines, Ryan Bentrand long term remains to be seen but with Ashley Cole now retired he has a good shot.
Euro 2016 qualification might not have finished yet but we already know who we will be facing as we begin our defense of the World cup next year;
We're already familiar with the Faroes and Bulgaria as we have faced them in our current group, Wales will undoubtedly be the biggest game of the bunch, last time we met the Welsh won out 2-1 winners in a 2013 friendly.
On the Southampton side of things we've had a decent enough start to the new season, a draw with Liverpool on the opening day was certainly a good result, losing to champions Man Utd was to be expected, however I was left disappointed only to get a point at home to Hull despite dominating throughout the game.
In the Europa league a 3-0 home win against Danish side AaB gave us enough of an advantage to see us through to the group stages of the competition after a 1-1 draw in Denmark, the draw however has not been kind to us;
Perhaps the fact that we were already through made us complacent or perhaps we simply just underestimated Armenia who we beat 3-0 at Wembley back in March, but we just failed to move up through the gears in this one as we played out a dreary 0-0 game where neither side seemed capable of stringing three passes together. defiantly one that won't live long in the memory.
Thankfully we did sharpen up as we the curtain fell on qualifying back in London as we completed a straight forward 3-0 win over the Swiss, finishing the group without conceding a single goal throughout the ten games, in fact our defense hasn't shipped a goal in a competitive game since the 3-2 win over South Korea in the group stage of the World cup over a year ago.
Wayne Rooney moved a step closer to Bobby Charlton's goal record for the Three Lions, the Manchester United forward has 46 strikes to his name, three behind Sir Bob, Peter Crouch is also closing in on the landmark on 44, who will get their first?
My Southampton starlet James Ward-Prowse also found the net against Switzerland, although he still has a very long way to go to catch up with Rooney or Crouch. JWP has been playing out of his skin ever since I gave him his big chance in the first team and earned himself a place in the England team for the first time earlier this year.
James Ward-Prowse
There are two more fixtures to fulfill this year for England as we head to Dublin to take on Ireland before the Scots visit Wembley for our annual friendly, then of course I'm going to have to think about booking some pre-tournement matches to warm up for Euro2016.
Teams qualified for Euro2016.
Two wins, three draws and two defeats have us lodged in mid-table with a game in hand which is more or less where we are expected to remain throughout the campaign, I'm hopeful we can qualify for the Europa league again however.
Talking of the Europa League, we've got off to the best possible start in our continental adventure, a win over Maccabi Haifa in Israel was probably expected but a beating Fenerbache will have surprised many people, the toughest game of the group is undoubtedly the trip to Rome which is up next, if we can get something from that I fancy us to qualify for the next round.
The league cup draw has pitted us at home to Millwall which I fancy us to win, the winner will face a home game with West Ham in the fourth round.
All in all, things a re looking good for both club and county.
I've just fell victim to perhaps the harshest sacking I've ever encountered on FM;
Admittedly results hadn't been great recently but with us cruising towards the knockout stages of the Europa League after beating Roma in Italy, not to mention the miraculous revival I initiated to save the club from relegation back to the Championship last season, I thought I would have been given a fairer chance in my first full season in charge.
I'm really shocked and gutted to be forced out as I thought I could build something special with my team full of talented young English players, many of whom are establishing themselves in my England squad.
Oh well, at least now I can focus fully on preparing for Euro 2016 with England and perhaps go back into club management after that.
mr.SPANKY
Our World Cups went similar except I lost my semi to Germany 4-0 and Belgium won the final 2-1.
I resigned afterwards though and now manage Columbia in the Copa America before I will move on again.
Some of the players I gave games to were Austin(has 10 goals in 14 apps now FREAK), Tom Ince, Smithies, Giles Barnes, Richard Eckersley, Luke Shaw, Nick Powell, Gary Hooper, Tom Hately, Luke Freeman, Fraser Foster, John Ruddy, Kevin Nolan, Kyle Walker, Jack Robinson, Ross Barkley, Sam Byram, Michael Bostwick, Lee Naylor, Shane Hill, Will Hughes, Richard Martin, Manny Smith, Rob Jones, Nicky Law, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Dean Lewington.
International football can go both ways, it can be a lot of fun or tediously boring, I think a lot of it depends on how you select your team, I get far more enjoyment from seeing inexperienced England players like Adam LeFondre or James Ward-Prowse score a winning goal than Wayne Rooney or one of the old guard.
Have you picked Ryan Shawcross? He is a beast for me (40 caps, 11 goals)
So, Back to managing the national team full time; The final fixtures of 2015 were both friendly's against our fellow home nations Ireland and Scotland, a drab 0-0 with Ireland in Dublin was compensated for by a brilliant second half performance against the Scots at Wembley.
Gary Hooper had a dream England debut after coming off the bench in the 65th minute, assisting Le Fondre's seventh goal in eight games for England before being rewarded with two of his own. Cardiff wingback John Brayford also came on to collect his first cap against Scotland.
In other news, the draw for the Euro's has been made and I'm feeling confident;
I've arranged warm-up games against Greece, Macedonia and Finland to prepare for the group, can we follow in France and Spain's footsteps in 2000 and 2012 and capture the European title straight off the back of winning the World cup?
mr.SPANKY
I made Shawcross my captain when Gerrard handed it over. He partners Caulker generally for me. Caulker is also a beast.