Are you listening Sven?

So this is what I'd do. Leave Rooney behind. Say sorry pal, you're not going to make it. Stay at home and put your feet up and watch it on the telly like the rest of us, and try not to get too upset.

But who to take instead? My idea, which is mine, and may not be any good because I haven't had anything eat today is to take six strikers. Give them all a chance in the first round games. Rotate and substitute like nobody's business - 30 minutes each - one of them's bound to do something. Ashton, Beattie, Crouch, Defoe... can you see a pattern emerging?

Failing that, call Mystic Meg. Or David Blaine.

Thanks, I'm off to lunch...