GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Couldn't think of a better title.
Place for those random thoughts/questions that don't fit in another thread and aren't worth their own.
I did a quick google on this but cbf to dig deeper.
When I was but a lad squads were 22 man things. I once read a letter on the ceefax sports pages ('twas how my generation passed time after school before the Internet) and some geezer questioned why teams were only picking 22 players when there was a rule that you could pick 23 provided there were three keepers.
No idea if it was true at the time, but at some point (I believe it was the 02 World Cup) everyone started picking 23. So whether it was a rule change or they all read the same ceefax letter I did, so it was to be.
So after my rather long and unnecessary preamble, my question is this. The rules state you can have 23 but three must be keepers. Does this mean, in an injury crisis, England wouldn't be allowed to play Fraser Forster up front?
Place for those random thoughts/questions that don't fit in another thread and aren't worth their own.
I did a quick google on this but cbf to dig deeper.
When I was but a lad squads were 22 man things. I once read a letter on the ceefax sports pages ('twas how my generation passed time after school before the Internet) and some geezer questioned why teams were only picking 22 players when there was a rule that you could pick 23 provided there were three keepers.
No idea if it was true at the time, but at some point (I believe it was the 02 World Cup) everyone started picking 23. So whether it was a rule change or they all read the same ceefax letter I did, so it was to be.
So after my rather long and unnecessary preamble, my question is this. The rules state you can have 23 but three must be keepers. Does this mean, in an injury crisis, England wouldn't be allowed to play Fraser Forster up front?