Heskey retires from international football

[Smirking_Saint]

Well, that doesn't surprise me, he hardly had the most impressive of world cups.

 

IMO in the past he has been a good partner to the England strike force, however right now he is just not the man we needed upfront.

 

I would imagine he wouldn't be the first to retire in the near future.

[Hatch]

He retired in 2002

[Ponty]

About time.

[Smirking_Saint]

He retired in 2002

 

His legs did, they have now let his head know

[Hatch]

That makes Ricky Lambert Englands new number 9 by my reckoning.

[Andy_Porter]

Now we just need Green, James, Terry, Rio, Cole x2, Lampard and Gerrard to retire. They've had there chance.

[SuperMikey]

Now we just need Green, James, Terry, Rio, Cole x2, Lampard and Gerrard to retire. They've had there chance.

 

If England fans could read some of the stuff posted on here now when they'd just qualified from their group, they'd all be scratching their heads. I can see that people think that the blame lies with the players, and it does, but taking the underperforming players out of the picture completely is the wrong thing to do, especially when there's nobody else in the frame to replace them. There's a reason why Gerrard and Cole are being hunted by Real Madrid, they're world class players that just don't have the motivation to perform at International level.

[RedAndWhite91]

Emile Heskey, 62 caps, 7 goals.

Columbian goalkeeper Rene Higuita, 68 caps, 8 goals....

[Dark Munster]

He should have retired in 2002

 

I've corrected it for you.

[SNSUN]

Emile Heskey, 62 caps, 7 goals.

Columbian goalkeeper Rene Higuita, 68 caps, 8 goals....

 

Boo, if Heskey had played 6 more games, he might've got that eighth goal!

 

The only England game I remember him being good in was the Germany 5-1, and that was probably because I was on such a cloud 9, I didn't even notice his crapness.

 

CM96 got it right - he was always shyte for Leicester.

[CB Saint]

:vuvu:

[hamster]

****NEWSFLASH****

Man discovers fire.

 

although tbh HCDAJFU imho

[Appy]

I remember Heskey being useful with Owen during McClown's tenure, a couple of decent results against Israel and Russia seemed to save his international career from oblivion.

[Hatch]

just watching a bit of the Villa game on ITV4.

 

Petrov had a penalty saved, ball rolled out to Heskey, 7 yards out with an open goal.

 

I bet you can't guess what happened?

[Hatch]

and now typically, just after I post a 'Heskey is Shyte' post, he scores.

[Hatch]

and Vienna score two more. Great game.