Strikers at Rest

In view of the very impressive start England have made under the new regime, it must be puzzling, and a little worrying, to manager Steve McClaren that the highly successful Peter Crouch has found it difficult to get a start at Liverpool since the arrival of Dirk Kuyt, while right now Jermain Defoe’s place in the Spurs side seems to owe something to the absence through injury of Dimitar Berbatov. Talk about strength up front.