Worst ever England team... Your view

England's also-rans head to Croatia for the toughest challenge under Fabio Capello's leadership so far.

they might be playing like the worst ever England team, but only one member of the squad makes it into our selection from 25 years of international underachievement.

You can view our XI by clicking here. Then post your own teams using the boxes below.

Comments

[Alex]

GK-Dave Beassant

RB-Rob Jones
LB-Tony Dorigo
CB-Steve Foster
CB-Neil Ruddock

RM-Stuart Ripley
LM-Steve Mcmahon
CM-Geoff Thomas
CM-Gavin Mccann

CF--John Fashanu
CF-Jeff Astle

[Kaal Payton and Alex Whitehead]

Englan squad.

Goalkeepers.
Chris Woods, Scott Carson,
Richard Wright,

Defenders.
Andy Hinchcliff, Chris Powell,
Neil Rudduck, Rob Jonse,
Antony Gardner, Steve Howey,
Keith Curle, Earl Barrett,
Tony Dorigo,

Midfielders.
Geoff Thomas, Carlton Palmer,
Andy Sinton, Seth Johnson,
Tony Dailey, Barry Venerson,
Steve Guppy,

Forwards.
David White, Michael Ricketts,
Nigel Clough, Brian Deane,

pick 11 from that.

[jimbee]

Englands worst ever team would not be worthy of the name without both Gary and Phil Neville.
This pair of pub footballers made England a laughing stock of world football.

[eck]

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[Toots]

Dave Bell you are so right. Either that or you are a complete **sser!!

Don't bother getting up this weekend - it's going to rain.

[steven snow]

that person who picked this team has no brains at all and knows nothing about football.his comments on stewart downing were an absolute disgrace.if he dares he should come and see downing play week and week out for middlesbrough,if he is so bad how come teams have to double up on him all the time and ask alex ferguson if he feels if stewart is no good.think you would be surprised by his answer.

[Wallerjoller]

I thought the England team was made up of England players...!!!

[Michael Johnsson]

This is an absolute appalling list written by someone who has either done virtually no research or has no clue about football. The only player out of the 11 who is genuinely in England’s worst ever 11 is Michael Ricketts, who was absolutely awful even when playing in League One, and is probably England’s worst ever player. And the entry for Stewart Downing is an absolute disgrace, if not downright insulting. It’s almost as if it was written to get Boro fans to immediately cancel their Orange contracts. Downing is a superb player, easily our best player against Trinidad setting up two of the goals and a natural Left Winger unlike Joe Cole who was awful against Joe Cole and should really be playing in Centre Midfield as he’s best there and plays there even when he’s picked on the left. Just off the top of my head I can think of the following wingers who’ve played for England who aren’t anywhere near Downing in terms of ability Seth Johnson, Mark Walters, Mark Barham, Mark Chamberlain, Andy Gray, Keiron Richardson, John Salako, Steve Guppy. And if I stopped to think of it there would undoubtably be many more.
Quite frankly anyone who puts Downing in England’s worst ever 11 hasn’t got a clue about football.

Here’s my worst 11

GK Richard Wright – Has never even been Premiership standard

RB Earl Barrett – A very average player, would be a Championship journeyman is he was still playing today
LB Paul Konchesky – I still can’t believe he ever got picked for England
CB Antony Gardiner – A complete carthorse see Paul Konchesky
CB Steve Howey – See Antony Gardiner

RW Seth Johnson – I was lost for words when he got his game
LW Steve Guppy – Barely played a game in the Premiership as he just wasn’t good enough

CM Barry Venison – Words fail me
CM Joey Barton – No excuse can be made for picking him for any team

CF Michael Ricketts
CF David White – Couldn’t even get a regular game for a very poor Man City team in the Nineties. Only just edging out Francis Jeffers, Peter Davenport and Brian Stein for this spot.

[Craig]

Dont get carried away with the 4-1 win England.I love football but as far as england go there just not good enough to win anything their over paid bigheads the england team mainly consists of man utd and chelsea players and a couple of liverpool players their so up their selves they thing every game is an easy win wront attitude to have no game is an easy game.Get rid of shrek rooney and love myself beckham get another goalkeeper calamity james is crap and so is robinson.Its sad to be an england fan because you no we get so close but yet so far away from winning anything.

[jamie [mufc]]

well lads they won so are you still all going to moan

[Ross Ricketts]

How could anyone include Gerard or Carragher in an England worst 11. I despair, and I am not a Liverpool fan.

[Ross Ricketts]

How could anyone include Gerard or Carragher in an England worst 11. I despair, and I am not a Liverpool fan.

[Ross Ricketts]

Who cares anymore. Foreign Manager, players who don't care about wearing the shirt,and then there's Paul Scholes. A disgrace to England let alone the English Team.

[pete]

time to rattle the cage a bit. if you want an under performing england player what about gutless gerrard. never had a good game in the white shirt (probably cause he aint getting paid as much). heres my full team anyway.

1. scott carson
2. gary neville/glen johnson
3. wayne bridge/ashley cole
4. neil ruddock/carragher
5. rio ferdinand
6. david batty
7. frank lampard
8. steven gerrard
9. defoe/rooney/fowler
10.steve mcmanaman
11.stewart downing

the worrying thing is that most of them are in the current team!

[David Crook]

The current England team playing at the moment,same old boring players,forget the big names,try looking at the championship,there are better players,and they would play there heart out for England

[Martin Banks]

I think it's a disgrace Chris Powell has been selected for this worst ever England team. He never let the country down, always put in a solid performance and even if he did have a shaky game v Finland, name me one England player who has NEVER had a bad game. Most of the current squad all play worse than Powell did and it's an insult to Powell the footballer and as a man to be selected in this just because there are few other alternatives at left back.

David James
Phil Neville
Glen Johnson
Neil Ruddock
Joleon Lescott
Carlton Palmer
Andy Sinton
Geoff Thomas
Tony Daley
Wayne Rooney
Alan Smith (gooner)

yes Rooney because you can count on your hand the number of times he has played well for England let alone even score, fat useless waste of space. We need Heskey and Owen up front tonight but where is Owen!

[andy]

ian walker
phil neville
martin keown
neil ruddock
ashley cole
steve mcmanaman
frank lampard
david batty
stewart downing
michael ricketts
brian deane/andy johnson

[david bell]

Just watch Englands performance tonight to see the worst England team. A gutless load of overpaid overhyped rubbish your likely to see assembled. Needs a damned good shake up from start to finish. Tell them if they lose tonight they can forget the next game. They wont be playing in it. I also bet drastic measures will not be taken if they are beaten. A bit like cricket contracts, jobs for the boys [a la Vaughan]

[dan]

lol, downing in the worst england team ever. picked by 3 different england managers, chased relentlessly by spurs, everton and liverpool... yea hes terrible.

some people dont know much about football it would seem.

[Disillusioned Magpie and 3 Lions Fan]

Not a bad selection with many a deserved member of the Taylor reign of horror!! But for me a couple of amendments are needed so here goes

Robert Green - how & why

Gary Neville - useless without beckham and just as bad with him

Martin Keown - the missing link should be in a zoo not an England shirt

Gary Mabbutt - Spurs stalwart .... at scoring own goals!!

Chris Powell - should never have journeyed into an england shirt

Kieran Richardson - sad macam

Frank Lampard - if hes one of the best in europe then i'm the best to ever grace the game - hes not even the best at chelski

Carlton Palmer - a puppet without strings

Stewart Downing - MaClowns love child still get caps unbelievable

Alan Smith - gutted he's in black and white - please buy him Everton please

Michael Ricketts - his exemplary record speaks for itself

[???]

Theres only 1 STEWART DOWNING 1 STEWART DOWNING. Downing is class and shouldnt be in englands worst 11. I admit Joe Cole is better but Downing is still mint.

[Ian]

Gary neville lucky to get so many caps if rob jones hadnt of had to finish early he wouldnt have got any. Still he wont get anymore.

phil neville what a joke, but still a joke with 60 caps, rattled with ugly stick it, still it wont be long before he joins his brother on the scrapheap.

Paul scholes lets face it whimped out when the going got tough unforgiveable. Trys to prolong his career by not playing for england, now tries to prolong his career by getting sent of regularly, a three match ban doesnt half help those tired old legs.

paul ince just got dropped for not being so good at any level. He would have fitted in better on a programme like big brother than motd. Just wasnt world class or even any class.

[matt parker]

This england team should be outstounding , we have top class players to choose from,they perform week in week out for the clubs that pay them hundreds of thousands a week. so my recomendation is ....... let the players wear their club shirts...... they dont deserve to wear an England crest over their hearts.(will retract statement if we win in style tonight, i have some faith left)

[david webb]

oops i missed a midfielder out. i'll go with barry,he does absolutely nothing that effects the game.i doen't understand what he is in the team for.

[david webb]

some strange choices here given the recent performances of a team of overpaid tarts.i,d kill to have batty still playing. at least that would be 1 player who wouldn't give the ball away every 2 minutes and would also want to get the ball when his team didn't have possession.as for slagging beckham off'it's just laughable.if your argument is that he is past it have you noticed how bad a team we are now as opposed to last 10 years when we've had him as a first choice.he's still set nearly every goal we've scored since coming back.

chris woods
luke young
mathew upson
martin keown
phil neville
andy sinton
geoff thomas
tony dailey
michael ricketts
andy johnson

[James Lambert]

they all suck at the mo
but downing really annoys me for many reasons.other players who didnt deserve to play- david batty ,butt , also at the moment alan smith and andy jonson.
England dont worry if you lose you couldnt get any crapper.PS-gerrards the best

[fisnik bujupi]

this one right now except 4 owen, terry and j.cole

Englands Ghost Team

Peter Bonetti
Phil Neville
Neil Ruddock
Paul Parker
Chris Powell
John Barnes
Carlton Palmer
Frank Lampard
Lee Sharpe
Brain Deane
Jermanie Defoe

why are they picked!!!

[dynamite]

downing shoudn't be in worst team he's alright the worst team should be gk carson
rb carragher cb k.curle cb powell Lb shorey rm lennon cm scholes cm mcmanaman Lm merson st fowler st ricketts the reason i picked scholes and carragher is because they retired for there country and quite young thats disgraceful and fowler good for liverpool but didn't live up to his big rep for country

[Frank Doberman]

What a rubbish subject this is for a blog because we want to live in the present and not go into history. Sack the Orange Editor ! Oh ! and if the England players don't deliver against Croatia sack the lot of them as well !

[Zach, west London]

I see this blog has stimulated some intelligent comment then?! Blimey, it's hardly the Guardian on here is it? Can anyone actually express themselves in plain English these days or is it all 'txt spk' and calling each other names? Talking of English, has there ever been a worse England player than Carlton Palmer?

[simmo]

think the team being picked just now wins it.
worst performers - but best paid.
and at the end of the day thats the most improtant thing to them.

[ash smith]

Gerrard Beckham and Rooney and some others are great individiuals but the team at the moment is SHOCKING. Whether the players are good or not, they clearly dont play well together! Never mind changin the managers, change the squad around!

[calvin harris]

robinson
cole
neville.g
ferdinand
lescot

beckham
downing
alan smith
david batty

rickets
bent or jonshon..or heskey

[Mikey B]

lol I like the way sum1 named pretty much the current squad. Ouch.

I cant agree with the person who named Rooney and Beckham tho, they're good! You cant put down Beckham, he may be in the US currently but the mans got talent.

[david walker]

david james, danny mills, martin keown, neil ruddock, chris powell, andy sinton, carlton palmer, david batty, kieran richardson alan smith, michael ricketts!!!!
There is only 1 currently playing but 2 others who still think they ae good enough, smith and richardson!
Dave middlesbrough!!!

[rich]

david batty has to get in there.

le sauxs got a shout, didnt he have a big kick off with batty on the pitch?

keepers go to be that geezer who let 1 slip during his first and only cap recently? was it carson, not sure but he was crap.

think its a bit harsh on stuart downing, young lad, lots of promise.

anyone remember paul parker?
a black, less good gary neville?

didnt keegan have a totally rubbish england career starting by missing a sitter?

phil neville definatley.

here goes

carson? if it was him
paul parker
ruddock
phil neville
le saux
batty
palmer

sod it cant be arsed, you get the jist

[Daniel Dray]

we r gettin so desperate that we have brought jimmy bullard into our squad hahaha

[Daniel Dray]

edward brown r u sayin that j.t is crap are u sayin dat joey cole is crap. yh i am a chelsea fan and all we get is criticised, especially joe cole, he scored both our goals and da 1 against czech republic to equalise lol and still gets criticised, i mean we wuld of lost without him !!

[edward brown]

all poor except beckham rooney owen barry

[Edward brown]

David james
ashley cole
john terry
rio ferdinand
wes brown
david bentley
joe cole
steven gerrard
frank lampard
emile heskey
alan smith

[Brian Wylie]

England's worst ever team? Anyone currently playing.

Worst players?
Rooney - overhyped and overpaid
Beckham - playing for some US pub team and still gets on the team sheet -it shows just how hard up we are.
Goalkeeepers - we don't have one.

[john harris]

paul robinson
lee dixon
neil ruddock
terry fenwick
chris powell
andy sinton
david batty
carlton palmer
stuart downing
luther blisset
brian deane