English keepers prove elusive for Capello
If you thought solving were simply about cutting out the sort of mistake that Robert Green made when he allowed at the World Cup in South Africa, you were wrong. The issues go a lot deeper than the odd individual error.
England manager Fabio Capello's limited options in that position have been made painfully clear in the last few days, firstly by Paul Robinson's impromptu international retirement and then by the back injury that forced Ben Foster to pull out of the squad to face Hungary on Wednesday.
With Green overlooked since that blunder against the United States and his immediate replacement in South Africa, the 40-year-old David James, having Capello is fast running out of top-flight candidates to play between the sticks - hence the call-up of Watford's Scott Loach as one of the men to fill in for Foster.
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