JOURNEYMAN HODGSON MAY SCRAPE DRAW

I SINCERELY want England to win in Montenegro tonight.

But the problem is this: their two best players happen to be the two strikers, Stevan Jovetic and Mirko Vucinic - while England's two most vulnerable players are Smalling and Lescott, the men who will mark Jovetic and Vucinic.

So it doesn't take a rocket scientist or some clever dick hack from the Street to tell you where the match could be won and lost.

Roy Hodgson can't be blamed for the injury crisis that has left his cupboard so threadbare in central defence, but surely England should be able to field two men who are at least first choices at their respective clubs?

Let's be honest - if Hodgson hadn't messed Rio about last year, he would be playing tonight. All that crap about treatment programmes etc wouldn't have been mentioned. It's Hodgson's poor man management that is the problem here: he is simply not up  to the job of international management.

Hodgson is a journeyman manager employed by an FA board that was frightened of its own shadow - let alone that one cast by Harry Redknapp.

If England get a result tonight - and I reckon they might scrape a lucky draw - it will be because of good fortune, not Hodgson.