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I hate him basically, i just don't think he's good enough and should never be playing for England. Fair enough he played ok against germany but the rest of his games have been rubbish. I'm not sure exactly how many caps he has (i think it's about 20) but one good game in twenty just isn't good enough. What do you think?

Another turd in the "heskey / Barry bucket of poo"

Ok at club level, no way world class

Downings great, i have liked him since he first started playing for Middlesbourgh, obviously you 2 just want us to pick teams from the top 4 who get paid lots.

I like downing as a player but to be honest he hasn't had a good game for england until germany however as he showed on wednesday haviong a naturally left sided player helped alot any way we shouldnt be worrying about downing when we've got barry who cant pass the ball forward

Stewart Downing isn't a world class footballer but he makes a nice addition to the england squad.

He's a great crosser of the ball, has a good work rate and has been consistently putting in good

performaces for boro over the last few seasons and therefore deserves a place in the setup.

He's England's first decent natural left winger for a while and adds much needed balance to the squad.

 Capello certainly sees something in him and I reckon he maybe needs to move to a bigger club

in order to develop his potential.

I don't want that at all. I'm all for English playerscoming from many different clubs but only if they are good enough and Stewart Downing just isn't.

Who put the corner in for the first goal?

You all seem to be forgetting that untill the last 5 or 6 games all of the England players have looked far from World Class. This is one of his first games in a confident squad under Capello and look at the performance he gave.

I would not say first team material.. but definitely a super-sub