On pure footballing ability who would you have in your team Zaha or Townsend? I'm guessing most Palace fans would say Zaha, so why not the same for England?

England haven't beaten what you might call world-class opposition in the knockout stages of a major tournament since 1966.

Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that happened to English football.

I would go further to say that this year has been the first year that Zaha has actually deserved international recognition for his team performances. I can think of a few who have been picked for England who have performed far worse for their teams all season but who still got picked. From Zaha's perspective I think he has answered his critics and has more or less decided enough was enough and opted for Ivory Coast. If he plays really well for them, all you will hear from England selectors will be that he had the wrong attitude. You will never see or hear them agree to the fact that they were wrong. Meanwhile players like James Milner will continue to crawl down the wing! I think he is good enough for England even if that is perhaps as a 30 minute impact player, but what you, I and the rest of the Palace supporters think is irrelevant.

Well the thing about Wilf is that he is only 24 and has really matured over the last season, he has also recovered from what must have been a really shattering experience at Man U; had Ferguson been there for that first year he would have had proper guidance and management, but then we would not have got him back. I think he will just get better and better as he has got that driven element, I am glad he decided to play for the Ivory Coast, he will probably follow the example of Drogba and set up charity to bring your Ivorian's on and given that he has not been valued by England he has done a sensible thing. We can of course now follow the Ivory Coast. All that needs to happen now is that the referees get over themselves and give him some protection...or just do their job.

Don't forget that a big part of the snub against Wilf was Big Sam picking Townsend at a time when a direct comparison was easily made and Wilf was by far the better player (i.e. before Andros' January epiphany).

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

The number of times England got the ball into good wide positions yesterday and failed to take the defence on as Wilf does was criminal . The ball just got passed back .It was like Wilf getting the ball and passing it back to Ward all day . Boring football which our Wilf is better off well away from .
England wont regret anything , they would rather bore us all the way to the quarter finals before losing to the first decent team they meet .

And we still need a striker