Morning all. So today's the day. Roy Hodgson has dotted the i's and crossed the t's on his final 23-man England squad for the World Cup. He's told the players. All that is left for him to do is tell the rest of us.  One issue has already been resolved: Ashley Cole will not be on the plane to Brazil. Southampton's Luke Shaw will act as reserve left-back behind Leighton Baines after a decision that Hodgson described as the hardest of his career. Cole has opted to retire from international football rather than wait on the reserve list, a choice that has the potential to come back and bite if either Shaw or Baines picks up an injury over the next month.  So what else is in doubt? Despite their clubs' insistence that they will be fit for action, Hodgson will have to have made a call on Arsenal's Jack Wilshere and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, and Manchester United's Phil Jones. Tottenham full-back Kyle Walker, it seems, will not make the cut after his long lay-off with a pelvic problem.  Some names are nailed on. Joe Hart and Fraser Forster will be first choice goalkeeper and first back-up. Hodgson must choose between John Ruddy and Ben Foster for the third keeper (the pointlessness of which is discussed here – only four teams in World Cup history have ever used all three keepers). In defence, Baines and Shaw are certainties, as are Gary Cahill, Glen Johnson, Phil Jagielka and, you would think, Chris Smalling. Jones will presumably join them if his shoulder injury permits.  In midfield, Steven Gerrard, James Milner and Adam Lallana are perhaps the only three you'd put the mortgage on. Oxlade-Chamberlain and Wilshere are equally nailed on if the England physios are happy enough with their fitness. Jordan Henderson is very probable, as is Raheem Sterling and, in all likelihood, Frank Lampard. Ross Barkley should get the nod ahead of Michael Carrick and Tom Cleverley.  Up front, things seem more straightforward, with Jay Rodriguez's unfortunate injury and Jermain Defoe's departure to MLS making Hodgson's decisions easier. Surely the four names on his list will be Wayne Rooney, Daniel Sturridge, Danny Welbeck and Rickie Lambert.  Wildcards? Andy Carroll? Connor Wickham? John Stones? Nathaniel Clyne? They all seem unlikely, but then that is the point of a wildcard.  So who have we got – Hart, Forster, Foster, Johnson, Jones, Cahill, Jagielka, Smalling, Baines, Shaw, Gerrard, Wilshere, Henderson, Lampard, Milner, Barkley, Lallana, Sterling, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Rooney, Sturridge, Welbeck, Lambert? Is that the 23 off to bring football home, end the 48 years of hurt or, more likely, depart in the group stages after a dismal 1-1 draw with Costa Rica? Find out here very soon.
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