フラン turn on the style while poor old Fabio Capello turns 支援する the clock

By ツバメ Samuel
Updated: 00:41 BST, 18 November 2010

He turned up, which is more than can be said for a few of them. In Andy Carroll’s 事例／患者, just literally 存在 there was a 特別手当 for Fabio Capello. It was all downhill from that point, unfortunately.

Newcastle 部隊d did not want to see Carroll at Wembley, you understand. They did not want him to 報告（する）／憶測 after Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Fulham and certainly did not want him pulling on the shirt against フラン last night.

Carroll 反抗するd them. Some will say that he did not have a 決定／判定勝ち（する） to make with Capello, the England 経営者／支配人, on his 事例／患者, but it is not as simple as that. The pull of club against country is very strong. There are plenty of players, big 指名するs, big personalities, who have been unable to break 解放する／自由な of a club 経営者／支配人 who has 適用するd 圧力 in international week.

Sadly, having made the 成果／努力, Carroll 証明するd a 人物／姿／数字 of little significance. Laurent Blanc’s フラン were so superior that the presence of any of Carroll’s 前任者s in the Newcastle No 9 shirt, 含むing Alan Shearer, would have made little difference, let alone that of a tyro, a raw 新採用する whose elevation to the England first team is the result of savage 傷害 problems and a dearth of 質 goalscorers.

On the run: Andy Carroll 支配（する）／統制するs the ball under the watchful 注目する，もくろむ of Adil Rami

Carroll may one day be the answer to Capello’s 祈りs, and he worked damned hard, but the most that can be said of his debut is that he was one of the better performers on a dispiriting night and his 乗り気 to 反逆者／反逆する against club orders in England’s 原因（となる） 確認するs he is made of sterner stuff than most.

Carroll, young and in his first 十分な season as a 首相 League player, is 正確に／まさに the sort of novice who might have felt 脅迫してさせるd by the news his club were in 接触する with the Football 協会, 主張するing he was unfit to play.

A groin 傷害 選ぶd up at the 週末 ― although it did not 妨げる him 完全にするing 90 minutes against Fulham ― was said to be the 問題／発行する. Angry missives had been 交流d. Capello was 平等に 毅然とした, though. The kid stays in the picture.

All it would have needed at that moment was for Carroll to 割れ目. For him to wake up yesterday morning with convenient soreness and return to Tyneside, knowing which 味方する his bread was buttered. After all, once Jermain Defoe and Wayne Rooney are fit again, is he an England 競争相手 or just another timely understudy, the Kevin Davies or Jay Bothroyd of the month?

Lofty ambitions: As Carroll loses out to Yann M'Vila, England's 依存 on the long ball was once 明らかな once again

It would be 平易な to balance his 価値（がある） to Newcastle, where he has been given the coveted No 9 shirt, against his value as a stop-gap 実験 for England and 選ぶ for the quieter life. Carroll didn’t. He 支援するd his 価値（がある） as a Newcastle player and 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がるd the 適切な時期 現在のd by Capello’s 選択. He stayed. He did the 権利 thing; he just 選ぶd the wrong night.

English football 会談 of emulating the style of modern Spain, while フラン go out and do it. Their players, a rebuilt squad under Blanc after the debacle of the World Cup, were small, nimble, 急速な／放蕩な and inventive. England’s 攻撃する，衝突する it long to a kid with brawn in the hope he would flick it on.

That is not Carroll’s fault. It is not the fault of any of England’s 肉体的に 課すing centre 今後s that so little thought goes into England’s approach play when the 圧力 is on. Peter Crouch has 苦しむd from this paucity of imagination all his life, yet has conjured an impressive 得点する／非難する／２０ing 記録，記録的な／記録する, continued here.#

When in 疑問 ― and England a re so often in 疑問 ― the deeper players bang it long to a big man. Yes, this is one way to go, and Joey Barton’s ability to 選ぶ Carroll out from distance has been 重要な for Newcastle this season, but it cannot be the only 大勝する, not at this level. It is disingenuous to （人命などを）奪う，主張する this was an inexperienced 味方する, too.

フラン had 271 caps 連合させるd, the same as England, and they looked as if they had greater understanding, not just of each other, but of the game.?

There was one player, Steven Gerrard, who looked as if he would make it into this French team, which is perhaps why Capello kept him on almost until the end. The 落ちる-out from what looked to be a 重要な 傷害 late in the game is 推定する／予想するd to be 厳しい. Liverpool’s need for Gerrard is as 広大な／多数の／重要な as England’s 権利 now and noises emanating from Anfield last night were already sounding their displeasure.

Hamstrung: Steven Gerrard limped off with an 傷害, much to the 狼狽 of parent club Liverpool

傷害 in a friendly international infuriates club 経営者／支配人s as much as bad 審判（をする）ing or Wayne Rooney’s スパイ／執行官, so Liverpool are going to be livid.

Y et there are no friendly games for Capello 権利 now, as he gropes for inspiration に引き続いて a dismal World Cup. After the goalless draw with Montenegro he needed either a good 業績／成果 or a good result against フラン.

He got neither, but for most of the match, Gerrard looked to be his only way out. The irony is that for all this 焦点（を合わせる） on 青年, it was one of the 悪口を言う／悪態d golden 世代 underachievers who was 長，率いる and shoulders England’s most classy performer.

By contrast, Kieran Gibbs and Jordan Henderson looked 未熟に 促進するd, while Carroll got nothing like the service 要求するd to make an impression.

Learning curve: Ki eran Gibbs is beaten to the ball by Mathieu Valbuena, while Jordan Henderson is 調書をとる／予約するd by Claus Bo Larsen

It was different for Wayne Rooney, an England international as a 十代の少年少女. He had the wit and ability to 打ち明ける a game on his own, even if his team-mates were not at their best. Carroll, a more 限られた／立憲的な performer, needs 援助. He needs good crosses, he needs 正確, but all he received was the 基準 loose 砲撃.

Carroll’s 最近の behaviour made him a 議論の的になる 選択 and Capello has 警告するd him to change his lifestyle. So did the end 正当化する the means? Yes and no. Yes because Carroll hinted that he may one day be the big man that Capello is looking for, and a 思い出の品 about the need for good behaviour has 価値（がある）; no because by comparison to the young talent on 陳列する，発揮する for フラン, Carroll’s presence also 示すd that this England team is turning the clock 支援する, not 今後, to a more 原始の style of play, direct and 強烈な and 限られた／立憲的な.

Carroll was an 改良 on Davies, because he does not give the same number of fouls away. Yet the 陪審／陪審員団 will remain out until Rooney is fit again and Capello can 裁判官 him as partner to the player he sees as 決定的な to England’s success.

Still looking: Fabio Capello is yet to find the answers

It is no secret that what the England 経営者／支配人 is looking for is Emile Heskey II: a 的 man who can play 支援する to goal against two central defenders 持つ／拘留するing up the ball for Rooney. Carroll is far from the finished article, but has time on his 味方する.

The last seven days have been taken up with a 審議 about the 危機 in England’s 前線 line, but Capello has more 圧力（をかける）ing problems 権利 now. This is no longer about one problem area but England’s general ability to move with the times.

Carroll is an 選択, but he should not be the only game in town. If he is, then compared to フラン, England will once again be 長，率いるing 支援する to the 未来. We have travelled this path before, and we all know where it ends.