Time for the Lions to Roar

Hello and welcome to my first blog post it what seems like an age!

Preparations for England's game against Spain have been overshadowed by the John Terry racism row and the row over whether they could wear poppies (shame on you FIFA!) This is the only time I shall mention these incidents in this post as I shall now be focusing on the game itself.

Now many newspapers reports I have seen this week are panicking at the fact that Fabio Capello is going to use more of his youthful and inexperienced squad members against the best international team in the world, European and World Champions Spain.

Now while at first this sounds like a horrifying prospect I have to disagree with the papers negativity. This is indeed the perfect opportunity to see if the youngsters are up to the challenge.

Now let's us face reality. If all goes with the script tomorrow Spain will comfortably beat England. There squad is clearly superior (You can tell that from the fact that they can leave players like Fabregas on the bench and not have any problems) and form wise there are on an incredible roll. This means that England have nothing to lose and all to gain.

This refers to the youngsters who would get the confidence boosts of their careers if they could upset the odds and beat Spain. The seniors of the side like Terry Lampard Barry and others are known to have choked in international tournaments and really cannot be relied on for England to have a successful Euro 2012.

The youngsters like Phil Jones and Chris Smalling need the experience from somewhere not just for next summer but the upcoming World Cup in 2014 in Brazil. By then the likes of Gerrard Ferdinand Lampard and co will have gone and it'll be up to a new era to steer England to success. Now is the time for Capello to see who is and who is not up to the task.

It shall give England a small chance of winning Euro 2012 because now still 7 months away from the tournament Capello shall probably know what the majority of his squad will be barring injuries.

So hopefully tomorrow will go well. I shall predict a 3-1 victory for Spain but all I really want to see is a good quality performance by England. If they can do that with a young team then maybe some belief shall be installed back into us all again.

Thanks for reading and until next time The Outsider is out!