With Fabio Capello apparently saying this week he intends to pick an England squad based on merit (Guardian, 28 Jan), I thought what better way to judge this ‘merit’ than on this season’s Fantasy League points? So here, according to this measurement, is this season’s 23-man ‘form’ squad:
GK
Rob Green – 102 pts
David James – 100
Scott Carson – 79
DF
Rio Ferdinand – 122
Jolean Lescott – 116
Glen Johnson – 88
Wes Brown – 85
Sol Campbell – 85
Matthew Upson – 78
David Wheater – 76
Nicky Shorey – 75
MF
Steven Gerrard – 120
David Bentley – 110
Gareth Barry – 98
Stewart Downing – 89
Frank Lampard (injured) – 87
James Harper – 74
James Milner – 70
Kevin Nolan – 69
FW
Ashley Young – 107
Gabriel Agbonglahor – 103
Dave Kitson – 80
Marcus Bent – 77
Wayne Rooney – 74 (Scraped in just ahead of Cameron Jerome, lucky Wayne…)
Make of that what you will…
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