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FOOTBALL: Gerrard drops anchor in middle England Life without Beckham: The captain's talents are badly needed but Liverpool's playmaker will be the central force

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030615
Author:Steve Tongue

Using the figures from David Beckham's England career under Sven Goran Eriksson to make a point about the captain's supposed fallibility comes into a statistical category defined by the 19th century humourist Andrew Lang as "like a drunken man using a lamppost - for support rather than illumination".

The evidence of our own eyes tells a truer tale in this case, confirmed by observation of last Wednesday's events at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium: his country need him, and will need him badly for the two critical away games remaining in the current European Championship campaign, against ...

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