Theo Walcott was always something of an enigma, since his inclusion in Eriksson?s 2006 squad; Walcott has been on target only on 3 occasions since....all against Croatia in 2008 ....Theo has been something of a walking sick note all season, hamstring, knee, shoulder, back starting on only fifteen occasions...Walcott is obviously gutted not to have made them squad ? I am very disappointed not to be included in the squad going out to South Africa, but completely respect Mr Capello's decision. I would like to wish the team the best of luck and hope they have a really successful tournament."

England will be leaving for the Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus in Rustenburg tonight which will be England HQ for at least the early stages of the tournament.
There is a depressive quality when supporting England, I would be flooding tears of joy and pride watching England on July 11th walking out for the World Cup final, however fans spend months trawling through the facts and figures, stats and theory?s, and in all honesty England are not the likeliest World Champions emerging from South Africa, remember with moral at its lowest ebb England failed to qualify for the European Championships in 2008, consigned to being serial losers.

There is a belief that?s Capello?s England squad are the best ever and when the Italian took over the reins in 2007 everything would be hunky dory, but watching England play since has all the qualities and emotions of a coin-tossing competition, the team strength has barely changed since 2007, look at the stats between 1980 and 2007, England have won on average close to half their matches, with the rest split approximately 60/40 between draws and losses. So just like taking out a coin, head win, tails lose, England?s probability averages 50/50 when assigning 1 for a win and 0 for either a loss or a draw to the 400 matches from 1981 through to 2007 there is no predictive value that distinguishes outcome to any combination of matches, whether the last match or the first, correlation can only be found in random elements or sequences, than in a string of results.

So looking at Capello?s 22 matches (2007 ? present) to short a period to see a pattern emerging, England appear to be statistically more successful than previous teams, with a 77% percentage win ratio, taking draws as half a point. England?s average is 2 goals per game .....