Football: England's Blind Loyalty ; Northern Ireland V England

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And now the bad news. The three most over-paid men in the history of British football - Sven-Gran Eriksson, David Beckham and Michael Owen - will tonight become the axis around which the England team will revolve.

Owen seems set to return to the team for the World Cup qualifying match against Northern Ireland in Belfast after suspension, meaning that Eriksson will revert to 4-4-2 from 4-5-1, and Beckham will go back to the right of midfield.

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Football: England's Blind Loyalty ; Northern Ireland V England

It all seems so systematic, so cushy, for three men who have spent the past four years glowing in each other's splendour. But now, far from taking England back to the future, they seem to be taking the national team forward into the past....

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