Lambert should be Rooney's England partner ahead of Carroll, says MLT

[stevegrant]

Over the next few weeks, I'll be posting some exclusive (and some semi-exclusive shared with the Ugly Inside) blogs written by Matt Le Tissier, mainly about Saints but some covering other aspects of the game as well.

 

These blogs are in association with Goalden Goals, a new goals prediction game Matt and I have been involved with alongside a journalist friend of ours, Graham Nickless.

 

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Rickie Lambert should be Wayne Rooney’s England strike partner ahead of Andy Carroll.

 

For me there’s no contest-Lambert is a better all round player.

 

And I can see Roy Hodgson playing Rooney and Lambert together.

 

He can play Lambert as the top man and have Rooney floating in and around him.

 

It was great to see Lambert have such a fantastic debut against Scotland-scoring with his first touch when he came on as substitute was incredible.

 

That’s why I can’t see him being overlooked now for next month’s World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.

 

He looks like an old-fashioned type centre forward but he’s not one of those big men who just moves to the back post to win a few headers.

 

Lambert’s got a lot more about his game than that.

 

He’s clever with dead balls at set pieces; takes a good penalty, has a terrific shot and his link-up play is impressive.

 

Lambert’s just as happy at getting the ball into his feet as he is dealing with far post headers and there’s not many players you can say that about.

 

That’s why I’d prefer to see him in the England team than Andy Carroll.

 

If Hodgson wants a striker who’s going to be decent in the air then there’s only one choice.

 

And if we qualify for Brazil then I’d take Lambert ahead of Carroll all day long.

 

Lambert had a cracking first season in the Premier League but was a little overlooked last year.

 

But he was patient, never moaned and when he got his chance on Wednesday took it absolutely brilliant.

 

Sadly I missed his magnificent header live on TV because I was out of the room.

 

But I was jumping to my feet off the sofa a few minutes later when I thought he was going to score a second.

 

There he was just waiting to tap the ball in when it came across but it took a nick off a defender and I couldn’t believe it when he hit the post.

 

I am so pleased for him because he’s a player that has come up through the lower divisions and has had to wait to get to the top.

 

He is the first Southampton player to score for England since Alan Shearer, who also scored on his debut.

 

This is a great boost for Southampton-it will give my old club a lot more credibility.

 

Hopefully, it will make it easier for them to attract top players to the south coast and keep the decent ones at the club.

 

Rickie Lambert has now proved that you can get into the England squad by playing for Southampton on a regular basis.

 

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[Bearsy]

"Goalden Goals" ffs!

 

Lambart should play instead of Rooney, if Rooney insists on being as fat and out of touch as he was on weds.

 

Edit - Sorry for mugging off goalden goals steve, i didn't realise you come up with the name. Good work getting MLT exclusives tho!

[shurlock]

Dont think Lambert and Rooney would work - both tend to drop off and occupy the same positions. Would require the likes of Walcott getting beyond them and cutting in.

[trousers]

Did MLT go to the Neil Allen school of one-liner paragraph writing?

[Hamilton Saint]

A perfect example of why paragraphs make prose easier to read.

 

I have written a few times to newspapers who insist on following a policy of 'every sentence is its own paragraph'. Their response is always the same: the "average reader" cannot cope with dense paragraphs (paragraphs with more than one sentence, apparently!). Au contraire, paragraphing helps the writer to keep associated ideas together, and it helps the reader by showing the logical flow of the writing - especially if there are good transitions between those paragraphs.

[Bearsy]

Word. MLT has been spending too much time on twitters.

[Tokyo-Saint]

Does le tiss watch that much of lambert? He is always on sky watching arsenal play or something and even said above that he didn't see lambert score the other night.

 

I reckon alps sees more saints games than him.

[Dig Dig]

Word. MLT has been spending too much time on twitters.

 

 

He's been reading too many posts from Brett from Camden.

[Bearsy]

To be fair Brett mostly types his posts out in morse code from mid-Atlantic. MLT has nothing like his excuse.

[DuncanRG]

A perfect example of why paragraphs make prose easier to read.

 

I have written a few times to newspapers who insist on following a policy of 'every sentence is its own paragraph'. Their response is always the same: the "average reader" cannot cope with dense paragraphs (paragraphs with more than one sentence, apparently!). Au contraire, paragraphing helps the writer to keep associated ideas together, and it helps the reader by showing the logical flow of the writing - especially if there are good transitions between those paragraphs.

 

That's for news, this is an opinion piece. News is about disclosing information as clearly as possible, whereas other kinds of newspaper writing are about expressing more complex thoughts in an attractive way, which is what paragraphs help with.

[Colinjb]

That's for news, this is an opinion piece. News is about disclosing information as clearly as possible, whereas other kinds of newspaper writing are about expressing more complex thoughts in an attractive way, which is what paragraphs help with.

 

Which explains why #Factless only needs to write in single sentences perfectly. No complex thoughts have occurred down the road in decades.

Edited 16 August, 2013 by Colinjb

[The9]

A perfect example of why paragraphs make prose easier to read.

 

I have written a few times to newspapers who insist on following a policy of 'every sentence is its own paragraph'. Their response is always the same: the "average reader" cannot cope with dense paragraphs (paragraphs with more than one sentence, apparently!). Au contraire, paragraphing helps the writer to keep associated ideas together, and it helps the reader by showing the logical flow of the writing - especially if there are good transitions between those paragraphs.

 

I read the first sentence and then moved on to the comments. You're spot on with your comment about paragraphs, and in reality it can only be editors trying to explain away the terrible quality of their reporters' writing. I found that text nearly impossible to concentrate on.

[Hamilton Saint]

That's for news, this is an opinion piece. News is about disclosing information as clearly as possible, whereas other kinds of newspaper writing are about expressing more complex thoughts in an attractive way, which is what paragraphs help with.

 

You contradict yourself. If this is not news, but an opinion piece, then it requires - according to you - paragraphs in order to "express more complex thoughts in an attractive way."

 

 

But I disagree, anyway. The writing of both news and opinion is improved by using paragraphs. They improve comprehension and speed up the process.

[The9]

You contradict yourself. If this is not news, but an opinion piece, then it requires - according to you - paragraphs in order to "express more complex thoughts in an attractive way."

 

 

But I disagree, anyway. The writing of both news and opinion is improved by using paragraphs. They improve comprehension and speed up the process.

 

Completely.

 

Agree.

 

This kind of thing.

 

Is.

 

Annoying, too.

[paulwantsapint]

I agree that Rooney would be a good partner for rickie if they could get the understanding that if 1 drops deep or wide the other gets central

[DuncanRG]

You contradict yourself. If this is not news, but an opinion piece, then it requires - according to you - paragraphs in order to "express more complex thoughts in an attractive way."

 

Yeah - I agree this is nigh on unreadable and should be written with longer paragraphs.

 

But I disagree, anyway. The writing of both news and opinion is improved by using paragraphs. They improve comprehension and speed up the process. "

 

Every professional news organisation in the English-speaking world agrees that paragraphs should be kept short in newswriting. One sentence = one paragraph isn't a hard and fast rule but it's often about right for meeting the accepted standard that each significant point of interest, piece of information or small group of these should have its own par. This MLT piece has line breaks in the middle of sentences, which is different. Believe me, the newspapers are right.

Edited 16 August, 2013 by DuncanRG

[The Kraken]

Did MLT go to the Neil Allen school of one-liner paragraph writing?

I'm not sure if it's a indictment on Neil Allen or me, but that's the first thing I thought

[sotonjoe]

Reads like Neil Allen's work. I smell a rat.

[tpbury]

Whoever wrote it, the meaning is inpenitrable and headache inducing. Like reading something from that robot of Battlestar Galactica. Gllglglglglglgllg

[sotonjoe]

I'm more Concerned about Steve grant openly plugging his side projects to his paid audience on tsw. Nice one Steve.

[david in sweden]

thinking back to all that close season media hype-rumours on " possible " transfer deals ..that never happened.

 

Remember this one ;

 

Nigel Adkins bids £8 million for Rickie Lambert........(no truth in that one, apparantly) but after the happenings in the last week .....I bet he wishes he had......