Scholes was appalling for a long period in an England shirt... admittedly he was played out of position... but the same thing happened to Gerrard and he got on with it.
In the few rare interviews he has given it's clear he has little passion for the England side... perhaps a viewpoint engineered by Sir Alex but Beckham came through the same finishing school and he is the exact opposite. He retired from international football at 29 citing his family life and club football as more important, yet he remains the media darling. I'm not suggested a football game should come before his family but he's not the one father in the team... he just didn't fancy it... he had opportunities to come back in his prime and rejected them. His goal record in the last few years was terrible even in the middle... he was no David Platt
Walcott was dropped quite fairly for some of the most abject England performances I can recall... lacking in guile, end product and most importantly balls. Of course he behaves better than the likes of Joey Barton... if they were not footballers Barton would be selling taking roids and breaking into houses and Walcott would be an accountant.
