Ox should go to Euros, and that's that:

Despite his consistently impressive performances in an Arsenal shirt in the Premier League and the Champions League, despite the pace and fearlessness with which he attacks opposition full-backs, despite the direct approach he takes in a team that normally shies away from directness, and despite the fact he's built, well...like an ox, there are still some who believe that England's favourite tax-dodger 'Arry Redknapp, if he does, as the press so badly want, become England manager, will decide to leave the Arsenal star at home this summer.

Should that occur, not only would Redknapp be proving himself to be a tactical numpty, as some of us already suspect, but England would also be putting their chances of making news sport headlines this season in the hands of one of the other contenders for an Oxlade-Chamberlain-esque role.

Let's look at those contenders for just a second. Firstly, Stewart Downing, a man so bad he makes Andy Carroll look like a Liverpool success story. Perhaps the embodiment of a player who flatters to deceive by driving the ball towards the byline without once lifting up his head or considering a final ball, Downing definitely needs to be left on Merseyside this summer.

Aaron Lennon and Adam Johnson are the other choices for England according to the latest odds, but can their level of inconsistency be relied upon at such a short tournament, where every game is akin to a final? Put simply, no.

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