Captain Fantastic

England v Greece. A friendly, and Steve McClaren's first game in charge. Also John Terry's first game as full-time captain of his country!

JT opened it perfectly, with a goal on the 15th minute. We've known for years that JT is the best captain around, now the rest of the country can see it too.

Frank also scored, and Freak Crouch bagged a brace to put the score at 4-0 at HT. The game finished 4-0 and the team looked good, possibly having something to do with the players actually just being played in their correct positions. Shock horror - it works!

These are good players, with good club managers. The international manager shouldn't need to do much more than motivate them. Hopefully Steve Mac will grasp this concept early on.

He did make a point of dropping David Beckham from the squad. Harsh in my opinion. He is still a lot better than some of the players in the squad. I agree he may not fit into the team now, but he should be replaced by Aaron Lennon, not "Stevie-G" on the right. He'll be back in the squad though...At the moment, he just needs to pay the price of being Sven's bum-boy for the past 5 years!

The season kicks off this weekend. Half the Chelsea squad are still either injured, or unfit, so we'll see how a tricky 3 opening fixtures against Man City, Boro and Blackburn turn out.