Capello picks his men*

*well, some of them will be sent home and some of them might well break down first.

Yep, today Fabio named his provisional 30 man party, which will be whittled down to 23 names who will take part in the summer's World Cup. And here there are:

Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), David James (Portsmouth), Robert Green (West Ham).

No real surprises here, expect James to start against the USA with Green as the first choice backup. Hart has had a good, a very good season but his youth works against him on the international stage and one's very much one for the future.

Defenders: Leighton Baines (Everton), Jamie Carragher (Liverpool), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Michael Dawson (Tottenham), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Ledley King (Tottenham), John Terry (Chelsea), Matthew Upson (West Ham), Stephen Warnock (Aston Villa).

The story here is that Carragher has been persuaded to return to play back up right back, which is why he quit this lark in the first place. King was a shoe in after proving his fitness in the last few fixtures of the season and it seems Fabio has been tracking him and talking to the Spurs physios all year. Hopefully Terry will have stopped being an idiot by July (small hope I know) and Rio's back doesn't fall apart like dry Playdo. Still at least Cashley Cole is one of the best in his position out there (as much as I hate to admit it) , the less said about Johnson defensive awareness the better however.

Midfielders: Gareth Barry (Manchester City), Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Joe Cole (Chelsea), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Tom Huddlestone (Tottenham), Adam Johnson (Manchester City), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Aaron Lennon (Tottenham), James Milner (Aston Villa), Scott Parker (West Ham), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City).

Huddlestone's inclusion is a bit of surprise and it seems he's waiting in the wings to take Barry's place if he fails to pass a fitness test at the end of the month. Lennon, Walcott, Johnson and Wright-Phillips mean there is plenty of pace in the side and we might even get some proper 'old fashioned' wing play. If miracles happen Gerrard and Lampard will suddenly, finally, learn how to play well together for a whole match at a time.

Forwards: Darren Bent (Sunderland), Peter Crouch (Tottenham), Jermain Defoe (Tottenham), Emile Heskey (Aston Villa), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United).

So happy to see Bent get a nod to at least join the initial squad. You have to be in good form to score than often for Sunderland. Sadly I fear he may be the one to lose out since Fabio has a strange fixation with Emile "Goal Machine" Heskey.

If the squad stays fit and they can build momentum in the early games then they could fail heroically in the semi-finals, as all English men should. But if I could wish for a dream end to the World Cup it will be for Crouch to score a last minute World Cup final winner and immediately proceed to do the robot watched by about one billion people.

C'mon Crouchy!