Your best NT player of 2004

Ashley Cole. He had to put up with not being able to not form a consistant partnership with anyone who played on the left, yet still excelled. He was our best player during Euro 2004 as well for me. He was stuck out on the left of the defence, without protection, and he still defended amazingly.

 

It must be more than Chelski fans who voted for Lamps. On the FA's website he is leading the poll for best player of 2004 (unless they all hijacked the website). For me it would be either Rooney or Lamps. Lampard was the most consistant player throughout 2004 but Rooney was the story of Euro 2004 for England. My vote goes to Rooney.

 

Lampard scored a few goals in Euro 2004, good goals, but his performances throughout the year were never dominant enough to make him the best.

I would say it has to be Rooney first of course. Ashley Cole second.

 

I can't believe Sol has so few votes. He would be my second choice after Ash. He was amazing during the whole year for England and was an absolute rock. Yet players like Steven Gerrard - who is actually my favourite player - is 3rd in the poll, yet was no where near as good.

 

Gerrard has been excellent for Liverpool though, yet he has yet to impress me in the NT!?

My vote goes to Ashley Cole.
2nd probly Rooney or Sol.

 

I think this is only for NT games. How well you play for your club doesn't come in to it I don't think, so I never took Stevie's Liverpool performances in to consideration.

 

Rooney, plain and simple. Lampard was better this year than he has been in the past though.

 

Bingo. In fact I'd probably choose Campbell over Cole, although not by much.

 

my thoughts exactly

lampard, cole & roonaldo runners up

 

apart from joaquin i have never seen anyone get past cole to good effect for england.

so either cole or rooney but i think without rooney we would have failed miserably at euro 2004 whereas without cole we would have survived imo.

 

Cole, Lampard and Rooney for England in 2004

 

cole and rooney

 

1) Cole
2) Rooney
3) Campbell
4) G. Neville

Once we get a good number of nominations, someone should create a new thread with a proper poll.

 

1.Rooney
2.Cole
3.Campbell

 

1) Rooney
2) Lampard
3) Cole

Rooney brought goosebumps to the back of my neck. The last time this happened, the player was Paul Gascoigne.

Lampard was consistent and impressive. In my opinion, he was the player who had improved the most. I remember his debut contre Australia, and I never wanted him to wear an England shirt again. 2004 has been a good year for him.

Cole.....well there's not much I can say about Cole that has not been said already in this thread. He was solid all year round, and is already being touted as one of the world's best left-backs. I'm happy for him.

I was disappointed with Beckham this year. Perhaps I'm being lenient with this one, but I'm putting it down to the fact that he was played out of position all season long for Royal Madrid.

The worst player, of course, was Phil Neville. Never before has a great stinking pile of putrid sh!te graced the world stage with such lack of skill. The Rui Costa goal clinched it for me. I remember the Portugal match like yesterday. When Sven decided to bring Neville on, I remember banging my fist against the ground several times in anger. How much does Sven get paid? Too much, in my opinion, if he is stupid enough to have P-Nev in his squad.

Revelian

 

I am in total agreement with you. Against Portugal and France, the midfield did nothing but give the ball away.

Revelian

 

Lampard.

 

Our biggest problem in Euro 2004, apart from everyone being knackered and played out of position, was that the defence kept trying the dribble the ball out to the midfield, whilst the midfield kept trying to clear the ball (boot it) to the strikers.

Revelian