Eriksson standby Walcott decision
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Former England boss Sven Goran Eriksson insists he was correct in selecting Arsenal teenager Theo Walcott for this year's World Cup.
Talking at the International Football Arena in Zurich, Eriksson called it "a good decision, the right decision... because you have to look - where are the other good English centre-forwards? Where are they? I don't know. I saw 100, 120 games with Premiership clubs every year and I couldn't find out."
His scathing remarks about the shortage of top-class English goalscoring talent explains his much criticised decision to take two half-fit strikers, Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen, to Germany ahead of Charlton's Darren Bent and Tottenham's Jermain Defoe.
Explaining his thinking on the latter player, Eriksson said: "They talk about Defoe. I think he had a very bad season last season. I don't think he deserved to go to the World Cup."
His unrepentant preference for Walcott - "It's good for England, it's good for Walcott, good for the future" - is a damning assessment of the Spurs frontman.
Talking at the International Football Arena in Zurich, Eriksson called it "a good decision, the right decision... because you have to look - where are the other good English centre-forwards? Where are they? I don't know. I saw 100, 120 games with Premiership clubs every year and I couldn't find out."
His scathing remarks about the shortage of top-class English goalscoring talent explains his much criticised decision to take two half-fit strikers, Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen, to Germany ahead of Charlton's Darren Bent and Tottenham's Jermain Defoe.
Explaining his thinking on the latter player, Eriksson said: "They talk about Defoe. I think he had a very bad season last season. I don't think he deserved to go to the World Cup."
His unrepentant preference for Walcott - "It's good for England, it's good for Walcott, good for the future" - is a damning assessment of the Spurs frontman.
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