Taking sport too seriously

OK, pretty basic, quite a fun idea and I'll undoubtedly produce another list which is the exact opposite. Let's say it's since about 1990 - no Hoddle, none of those 70s guys like Stan Bowles. In recent times, a lot of people have won a lot of England caps, and some have not won enough. Paul Robinson - if he could have just played one more game, England would have made Euro2008 Ashley Cole-should have gone to the World Cup, because when it comes to playing top class teams, you need pure defenders. Rio Ferdinand-only appeared in two Major tournaments, for a combination of reasons. Des Walker - seemed to stop being world-class too quickly Lee Dixon- best of an average lot at right-back, I suppose, but I never really understood why he wasn't an England regular John Barnes - could have been one of the world's best Paul Gascoigne - obviously Paul Scholes -  obviously Steve McManaman - the idea that he underperformed for England is pure nonsense. They should ...

I quite like this as an idea because they haven't been going as a test nation for very long so there's not a massive base, they've had some absolute stars of the game but they've never quite had a full coherent test team so the question was, if you picked from everyone, would there be enough top class players to fill it in every role or would there have to be one or two plodders? The fact Dilhara Fernando is a very realistic option says it all really ... no problem with the quality of the batting line-up though ... the questions are - does Sangakkara bat and keep (considering how much better his average is when he only bats)? Is Angelo Matthews capable of being the 3rd seamer? Should Ranatunga be brought in to captain? If not, then who? The more accumulative Atapattu vs the explosive Dilshan? Sanath Jayasuriya Tillekeratne Dilshan Aravinda da Silva Kumar Sangakkara  (wkt) Mahela Jayawardene Thilan Samaraweera Angelo Matthews (captain) Chaminda Vaas Rangana He...

OK, so in the sport blog I'm just going to rattle out some lists for a while. Can't think of anything better or more coherent to do. Here's the first one. Best Spurs XI since I've been a Spurs fan (1985) Hugo Lloris Chris Hughton Ledley King Gary Mabbutt Kyle Walker Chris  Waddle Glen Hoddle Paul Gascoigne Gareth Bale Robbie Keane Gary Lineker Subs: Thorsvedt Berbatov Modric Klinsmann Dawson Lennon