THE LIST: Sportsmails tip 50 English footballers who should be on Fabio Capellos radio detector

The World Cup is less than four months away - and Fabio Capello has some difficult decisions to make.

HAVE YOUR SAY... Who is the best English player in the world today? There"s a World Cup coming, time to look lively. Sportsmail"s latest edition of The List celebrates the 50 best English footballers in the world today. Who should be in Fabio Capello"s sights? Tell us the rising stars, the established stars not pulling their weight, and those you"d like to see return from international retirement. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

Next week he will send out a team to face Egypt in what will be England"s last friendly before he names the provisional squad for South Africa 2010.

Who"s in his thoughts? Is there a man to fill Ashley Cole"s boots if the Chelsea man doesn"t recover in time? Which of his imperfect goalkeepers will get the nod between the sticks?

Sportsmail try to help out the Italian by revealing the top 50 English players of the here and now. Long-term injured stars such as Owen Hargreaves misses out, because, for example, it seems unlikely he can recover form and fitness in time for Manchester United.

But we highlight some uncapped starlets that Capello should gamble on, pick out the retired stars who should be leaned on to reconsider and reveal those regulars who justify their place in the squad.

As ever, we countdown with 10 per day, unveiling our No 1 on Friday, and you can join in the debate.

Read numbers 40-31 HERE.

30 Ashley Young (Aston Villa)

One of the next generation of exciting young English players, Young is an important part of Martin ONeills high-flying Aston Villa.

Competition is fierce in all areas of Fabio Capellos side but Young has all the attributes to consider his chances of making the squad are better than most.

He has the pace to worry even the best defences, can deliver an accurately from a dead-ball situation, he chips in with goals and, crucially, he has a fine left foot.

Pace and experience: Ashley Young (left) and David Beckham

29 David Beckham (Milan)

Not so long ago, the hopes of an entire nation rested on the shoulders of David Beckham. Not anymore.

At 34, Beckhams contribution will be nothing more than peripheral at the World Cup but dont underestimate the contribution, however small, of Englands second most capped player.

His recent display for AC Milan against Manchester United proved that although he no longer has the engine of five years ago, there is no better deliverer of the ball in the world.

28 Matthew Etherington (Stoke)

The eternal runner, Etherington works his socks off down the left wing and puts in regular man-of-the-match performances for Stoke.

Still battling gambling addiction and a recent knee injury has halted his progress but he should be back in Tony Puliss side within the next couple of weeks.

The former Peterbrough, Tottenham and West Ham star has yet to make his full international debut yet but Capello has said hell pick players on form, and Etherington has plenty of that.

On a wing and a prayer: Matthew Etherington and David James have been injured

27 David James (Portsmouth)

James career has taken in six clubs, an FA Cup final victory and the ;Calamity moniker but he has never faced a challenge as great as the one that faces him at Portsmouth.

Pompey are in a parlous state and in a World Cup season, James lost his place to Asmir Begovic. It couldnt have gone much worse for the England regular.

However, his persistence paid off. He has regained his place after Begovics departure and despite the south coast clubs

26 Ryan Shawcross (Stoke)

Declared surplus to requirements by Sir Alex Ferguson, Shawcross has since become indispensable to Tony Pulis after his 1m move to Stoke.

The 6ft 5ins centre-back scored a perfectly decent winner against Manchester City which was struck off but scoring goals is not the part of his game which earns him headlines.

He possesses pace, strength and a cool head in both penalty areas. This World Cup may come to soon for the 22-year-old but he is certainly one for the future.

DOhbama: First Lady meets The Simpsons

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The First lady has made an inspiring visit to America"s favourite family. Michelle Obama is the latest figure to appear in The Simpsons. Dressed in purple and wearing pearls, she flies into Springfield to give the kids an inspiring speech.

In "Stealing First Base", she defends Lisa revealing that she was also teased at school and got straight A"s. But Michelle, voiced by Oscar-winning actress Angela Bassett, also warns Lisa"s classmates to be nice to her as : "The overachievers may someday run the country."

Michelle then flies off after opening the aircraft door herself.

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Irans atomic ambitions means corner at disarmament talks

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The US and Russia fell out over Irans chief programme last night as the dual sides offering small pointer of a understanding to condense their own atomic arsenals.

Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, pronounced that it was beforehand for Russia to open Irans initial chief energy hire until Tehran allayed suspicions that it is personally construction an atomic bomb.

We have pronounced that Iran is entitled to polite chief power. It is a chief weapons programme that it is not entitled to, she said. If it reassures the universe or if the poise has changed, afterwards it can aspire to pacific chief power. In the deficiency of these reassurances, we think it would be beforehand to go brazen with any plan at this time.

Despite her comments Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, pronounced this plan will be completed. Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, reliable that the Bushehr reactor would proceed operations in the summer.

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Mrs Clinton and Mr Lavrov spoke at a corner press discussion after talks in Moscow on swell in negotiating a inheritor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start). Despite assurances that a understanding is near, they offering no calendar for President Medvedev and President Obama to pointer the new treaty.

Mrs Clinton scheduled a assembly with Mr Putin currently among signs that he is dynamic to remove uninformed concessions over US plans for barb counterclaim in Eastern Europe. Boris Gryzlov, the parliamentary personality of Mr Putins statute United Russia party, in jeopardy on Tuesday to retard resolution of the covenant unless it enclosed barb defence.

Asked about an suggest from Ukraine to host the signing of the treaty, Mrs Clinton said: First the negotiators have to pointer on the dotted line that they have finished their negotiations. Mr Lavrov likely that a covenant would be ready really shortly but conjunction he nor Mrs Clinton gave any spirit that it would be prior to Mr Obama hosts a chief security limit in Washington on Apr 12. The US is pulling for a understanding by subsequent month to get the covenant validated in Congress prior to midterm elections in November.

Previous Russian deadlines for execution of the $1 billion (650 million) plant at Bushehr have slipped. But Mr Putins proclamation came among US vigour on the Kremlin to behind difficult new sanctions opposite Iran.

Mr Medvedev and Mr Obama concluded on a new chief covenant at their reset limit in Moscow in Jul last year but negotiators longed for the strange Dec 5 deadline, when Start expired. The dual sides target to revoke their stockpiles to a limit of 1,675 warheads each and to cut their long-range missiles to no some-more than 1,100.

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Lenders bashful behind as Greece creates €5bn money call

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Doubts flush yesterday about the eagerness of the monetary markets to take up a multibillion-euro down payment issue by Greece as Germanys tip landowner met the Greek Prime Minister in Athens.

The assembly in in between Joseph Ackermann, Deutsche Banks arch executive, and George Papandreou took place as a squeeze of German lenders pronounced that they would be doubtful to take up Greek holds in the nearby destiny a intensity hazard to the financially strapped eurozone member, that is approaching to launch a €5 billion (4.5 billion) money call subsequent week. Mr Papandreou warned the Greek council yesterday of the scale of the predicament and called for assistance from associate European states. An EU review of the Greek economy had reliable his misfortune fears and the need for heartless changes, he said.

Will we let the nation go broke or will we react? Will we let the speculators suppress us, or will we take the predestine in the own hands? We contingency do whatever we can right away to residence the evident dangers today. Tomorrow it will be as well late.

Reports flush in Germany that the Government was deliberation the make use of of KfW, a state-owned growth bank, to await Greece with a big squeeze of the states debt.

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Eurohypo, a section of Commerzbank, Germanys second-biggest lender, pronounced it would not allow to serve Greek issues, whilst Postbank, Hypo Real Estate, BayernLB and LBBW voiced disbelief about their take-up of a Greek supervision down payment issue.

Greece has to compensate off €22 billion to lenders this year and lift a serve €30 billion in new borrowings. It fell deeper in to retrogression last month and the Governments borrowings are approaching to reach 120 per cent of the distance of the complete economy, whilst the cost of servicing debt is rising.

Fitch Ratings pronounced yesterday that it approaching Greece to be forced to compensate higher seductiveness on destiny borrowings since of the sharpening produce on Greek supervision bonds. We think the in effect rate is in in between one and dual commission points higher than foresee in the Greek Governments budget, Brian Coulton, handling executive of Fitch, said.

Greek ten-year holds yesterday were agreeable 3.7 commission points some-more than homogeneous German debt, the eurozone benchmark. However, marketplace analysts reckon that Greece will be forced to suggest even higher rates to lure lenders, as it seeks to lift sufficient money this year to account the countrys arrogant open sector. The weight of servicing some-more costly debt could cost the Government as most as €1 billion.

Fitch downgraded Greek debt by dual notches late last year after the Government had suggested that the open zone necessity was 3 times as large as formerly indicated. That necessity is foresee to climb to roughly thirteen per cent of sum made at home product this year, but Athens has betrothed to move it down neatly with a programme of salary freezes, motor fuel avocation increases and an enlarge in the state early retirement age.

Meanwhile, Standard & Poors, the credit ratings agency, warned that Spains diseased economy could criticise the countrys plan to cut the bill deficit. The group pronounced that a hillside in the rating on Spains debt was even some-more likely.

S&P combined that Spains necessity would sojourn on top of 5 per cent of the countrys sum made at home product by to 2013, implying that the debt weight could rise.

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Hopes of English republic rest on the extended shoulders of Wayne Rooney Manchester United

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One hundred days to go. One hundred days for Fabio Capello to arise up in fright of the liaison that will mishandle Englands World Cup campaign.

One hundred days for Wayne Rooney to run around a representation or a precision belligerent at risk of pang the damage that would be similarly damaging.

Rooney will be at the back of in the saddle this morning, carrying sat out Mondays England precision session. A indicate suggested his knee damage to be zero some-more critical than bruising, but even the passing awaiting of him blank the accessible compare opposite Egypt at Wembley on Wednesday was sufficient to means palpitations between a open and positively a media between whom the Manchester United brazen has turn the usually remedy to the sleaze that has in jeopardy to shroud preparations for the World Cup finals in South Africa this summer.

After all the speak of John Terrys misdemeanours, of Ashley Coles high-profile matrimony disintegrating, of Wayne Bridge branch his at the back of on the squad, of key players stubborn by concerns over form and fitness, England could positively do with a feelgood story.

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In Rooney, they have one: the heartwarming story of a immature man, who, carrying incited his at the back of on temptations and distractions afar from the representation and lifted his diversion on it, is opening up in to the world-class centre brazen that he and an trusting republic regularly hoped he would become.

At the prior England gettogether, prior to the accessible opposite Brazil in Doha last November, Rooney had talked of the heights that he still had to scale to stick on Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Kaká in the pantheon of � la mode greats.

Over the past dual months he seems to have towering himself to something really close to that level, apropos a player who, identical to each of that stellar trio, will transport to South Africa in Jun with the weight of shortcoming on his shoulders.

Im ready for it, Rooney pronounced on Tuesday of the expectations on him. It cant be as bad as it was prior to 2006. That was a bit weird, with the group scheming for the contest and majority days the concentration was on either I would be fit. But, yes, Im ready for the World Cup. Im in the majority appropriate form of my life. Im ready.

At a entertainment of majority of the World Cup coaches in South Africa last week, Joachim Löw, the Germany coach, described Rooney as unstoppable, a notice no disbelief extended on Sunday when the brazen scored the idea opposite Aston Villa that won the Carling Cup for United. I do feel unstoppable, Rooney said. I feel that each diversion I fool around in, Im going to score.

The conspicuous aspect about Rooneys new flurry has been the series of goals that he has scored with his head. He has regularly regarded this as his greatest weakness, but 7 of his past eight goals have been headers, that he puts down to an increasing high regard of the goalscorers art and, significantly, the purpose played for United by Antonio Valencia, the Ecuador winger, who assimilated the champions from Wigan Athletic last summer.

The physical education instructor [Sir Alex Ferguson] pronounced to me in pre-season that I indispensable to measure some-more with my head, Rooney said. Since then, Ive worked even harder at it. Thankfully, it is entrance off for me now. Over the last integrate of months, Antonio has been a shining player and a great outlet. When the smoothness in to the box is good, you can work on your transformation and your timing.

I think in the past I was dropping low and probably perplexing to fool around players in more, rather than removing in to the box. With Ronaldo and [Carlos] Tvez withdrawal United, the something Ive had to do more. Now the simpler to score.

Rooneys success as a front-line striker with United, mostly personification as the sole centre forward, has lifted suggestions that he could do a identical purpose with England underneath Fabio Capello, who has elite to muster him in a deeper role, with Emile Heskey handling as a aim man.

That multiple worked to great outcome during the subordinate campaign, but, with Heskey struggling to have a postulated stroke at Villa, it is probable that Capello will be forced in to a rethink for South Africa.

Im certain it would work, but thats the managers preference if he wants to fool around identical to that, Rooney said. If he wants to fool around the arrangement he has been playing, no problem. For England, Ive played only at the back of Emile and scored a integrate of goals. Ive played a lot over up for United, saving my appetite for when the round comes nearby the box, and thats operative as well. Im happy, whatever.

Rooney is happy, period. These days he cuts a untroubled figure who knows, after scarcely 4 months as a father, that his hold up is removing improved each day.

Im enjoying my hold up with my family, he said. I outlay a lot of time at home with them, removing my rest, and that has patently benefited me. The initial integrate of months, the a large shift in your life, but Im removing a great nap now.

Capello has probably endured excited nights in new weeks, wondering what some-more unworthy sum about the in isolation lives of his players are left to uncover. But where there is Rooney, there is hope.

Just as prolonged as he can get by these subsequent 100 days but any slip-ups.

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Putting Wales on the map ... (Clockwise from tip left) Sharon Morgan, Boyd Clack, Siwan Morris and Huw Rees. Photographs: Gareth Phillips

Sharon Morgan, who plays a rap-loving, booze-swigging 115-year-old in National Theatre Wales"s entrance production, A Good NightOut in the Valleys, buttonholes me in a mangle from rehearsals to have a point. "There was no veteran entertainment in Wales until the mid-1960s," she says. "People pronounced I was insane to instruct to be an actress behind then. It was a unequivocally bizarre thing to do, stepping in to a universe that didn"t exist." With itsstronger elegant convention and bilingualism, Wales has not been fruitful belligerent for theatre, that is what creates the bieing born of a new inhabitant entertainment in English – a Welsh-language one already exists – so dramatic.

A Good Night Out in the Valleys Blackwood Miners" Institute, Caerphilly On eleven March. Then furloughed Box office: 01495227206 See sum

In Wales, English speakers outnumber Welsh speakers 3 to one. The thought of an English-language inhabitant entertainment has been debated for roughly 100 years, but it took Dai Smith, who has chaired the Arts Council of Wales given 2006, to cut by the competing reports on how it should be structured. "I motionless that this pussyfooting around – should we havea inhabitant entertainment or not? – was ridiculous," he tells me. "So I went to the enlightenment apportion [of the Welsh assembly] and said, "I resolutely hold inthis – can you presumably get £3m?"" He could, and the income will right away cover the cost of environment up the association and programming the primary dual years; thefirst prolongation will be denounced at the Blackwood Miners" Institute after this month, prior to relocating to 4 alternative institutes opposite the South WalesValleys.

Like Scotland"s inhabitant theatre, the association has no permanent home. Its home is all of Wales, and the primary deteriorate will underline a dozen productions stretching from Cardiff, Swansea and Newport in the south to the beaches of north Wales, around Barmouth, Bangor and a troops banishment range in the Brecon Beacons. The programme is ambitious, amounting to what inventive executive John McGrath calls a melodramatic "mapping" of Wales.

In a little ways, prerequisite has been the mom of inventive invention. There wasn"t sufficient income to set up a new theatre, and in any box where would you put it? Someone would be irked: as Boyd Clack, who stars in A Good Night Out, remarks, the Welsh are receptive to jealousy. Better, and positively cheaper, to settle a peripatetic association that takes entertainment to people all over Wales. That, anyway, isthe goal – although, as Clack additionally points out, the people already have their own theatre: fighting, drinking, competition and television.

McGrath explains his prophesy over a cake in the community-run cafeteria in the encampment of Blaengarw (A Good Night Out will be staged at the internal workmen"s hall). The six-strong expel are rehearsing in each of the venues, to let the locals get used to them and dump in on rehearsals if they wish. "We"re called the National Theatre Wales, so we"re asking: what does that mean?" says McGrath. "If you"re furloughed a production, in a approach you have to come up with one one thing and take it on tour, since by operative in twelve opposite places you can ask that theme new each time you have every of work. You can see at a republic by history, by identity, but unequivocally we thought what anation is is a place – so let"s try what place means."

The map is far from conventional. McGrath"s launch programme includes a partnership in in between earthy entertainment association Volcano and Welsh National Opera in an deserted vital room in Swansea; an inexpert fool around by John Osborne in Cardiff; and a uninformed interpretation of Aeschylus"s The Persians staged in a troops formidable in mid-Wales. A Good Night Out is not utterly so edgy, and I wondered if it was a approach of charity primary soundness to NTW"s audience, prior to attack them with Aeschylus and an initial work by German "reality theatre" specialists Rimini Protokoll after in the year. McGrath says not, the preference of launch eventuality was in a little ways accidental, nonetheless Smith accepts that the primary prolongation will be a "warm cwtch" – a poetic Welsh word definition cuddle or hug. "It"s saying, "Don"t be disturbed about this, don"t be frightened, this isyou. We"re not environment up a marble staircase that you have to come up with your black crawl tie on.""

Dai Smith observes that, distinct Scotland, Wales has no bourgeoisie, noEdinburgh or Glasgow with a processed following for theatre. It needs to grow an audience. A large piece of NTW"s work will engage village engagement: open rehearsals, workshops, the growth of teams of volunteers in each place it performs, and an public after each production, where people can plead theissues raised. At the operation I attend in Blaengarw, the institute"s "knitting nanas" lay in on the afternoon event – the idealisation critics, the speed at that they weave reflecting their turn of engagement.

"It"s about operative with internal people, so they can reply to things that are critical to them," says Catherine Paskell, one of NTW"s dual beautiful associates. "It"s not about us alighting and saying, "You should be articulate about taxes, or you should be articulate about unemployment." They"ve got alternative things that are some-more critical to them that we competence not even know about."

A Good Night Out is formed on stories internal people supposing in workshops that McGrath, bard Alan Harris and immature proffer Hannah Bevan hold opposite the Valleys last autumn. Harris afterwards reimagined them, sketch on anecdotes and characters. The work attempts a mural of a vital village – the 6 actors will fool around twenty-five tools – and wants, on top of all, to equivocate being an practice in nostalgia, a paean to the industrial landscape flattened in the last thirty years.

"At those workshops I got a bucket of stories and a bucket of characters," says Harris. "We approaching stereotypical stories, and we did get a little people articulate about Aberfan or the miners" set upon or the decrease in industry. But alot of times we got some-more personal stories. And they were stories of hope, rather than "Woe is us". People told us they longed for to see their lives on stage, but a lady in Aberdare said, "We don"t instruct you to take the piss out of us." By that she meant hold up isn"t all mines and unemployment. There"s a lot some-more to it.She was saying, "Our lives are a lot some-more formidable than the perspective that it"s apost-industrial solitude where everybody functions in Asda.""

NTW does face the peculiar doubter. One Welsh-language repository has called the launch prolongation "provincial" since it rakes over informed theme matter. Andeven though the appropriation of existent English-language entertainment companies has notbeen cannibalised, a little feel in jeopardy by the new child on the block. Terry Hands"s Clwyd Theatr Cymru, formed in Mold, might have to recur the explain to be the "focus for English-language entertainment in Wales".

Smith and McGrath fool around down such fears and the tensions in in between the dual languages, that are less noted than they were a decade ago. But Boyd Clack, a successful sitcom- and songwriter as well as an actor, is less diplomatic: "There are a lot of people here who are unequivocally stranded in their ways, utterly bitter. It"s an additional Welsh characteristic." To spell out this, he says, "A discerning joke: a Welshman is deserted on a dried island and builds a church. It takes five years. Then he spends an additional five construction an additional church. Five years after that he"s rescued, and someone says, "What"s that?" "It"s a church." "And what"s that over there?" "It"s a church." "So because have you got two?" He says, "I don"t go to that one." That is an perspective that we"ve had, and with the Welsh entertainment and the English entertainment I"m certain that mood will be there."

• This essay was nice on Thursday 4 Mar 2010. The venue in the listings was settled as Bedwas Workingmens Hall. This has been corrected.

Bloggers are gnawing up front row seats at London Fashion Week

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They are ruthless, inspired and ready to go to kill. Now a new era of conform bloggers are claiming their places to one side the sacred catwalks of London Fashion Week. And nonetheless those seats are really singular indeed, a little bloggers are rebuilt to review to any equates to satisfactory or tainted to benefit admittance.

Since LFW began on Friday the front rows have resounded with tales of the incomers chutzpah. One insisted they were a staff part of of Harpers Bazaar repository until the genuine ticket-holder showed up. A seasoned publisher spoke of saying a 16-year-old lady to whom strew since work experience placed, pleasantness of her accreditation to a hip blog, bang-slap in the front row, well in front of the journalist. Tickets have been snaffled, queues jumped, and bouncers evaded.

Look, a little of the bloggers are brilliant, pronounced one silken repository contributor, but a lot of them are liggers with laptops.

An successful conform PR, additionally contracting industry omerta, said: Some of them will request for tickets over and over and over again. They simply exclude to be rejected. But if you review a little of these blogs, they are only cut-and-pasting each other; they dont have use of their entrance to contend anything original.

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Last February, twenty-two per cent of the sum press accreditations postulated by the British Fashion Council to LFW were since to bloggers. This year, the series has increasing to 33 per cent. Once accredited, the bloggers contingency remonstrate designers PRs that they will beget sufficient coverage to merit a mark at the show.

Julian Vogel of Modus, whose clients embody Calvin Klein, Margaret Howell and Matthew Williamson, said: Theres been a large climb in bloggers requests for tickets this season. It feels similar to the initial where the blog has left mainstream as a conform media.

Burberry has additionally noticed a poignant surge in sheet applications from bloggers. Its beautiful director, Christopher Bailey, has been one of fashions majority fervent embracers of the internets selling potential: todays show will be the initial to be streamed live in 3-D and yesterday Bailey spoke at a Downing Street discussion about Burberrys digital beautiful policy. He said: Its critical that we give bloggers the apply oneself that they deserve. They have a really clear approach of expressing their opinion. The disproportion in between bloggers and normal press is bloggers are mostly articulate without delay to a last consumer.

Some have turn a sensation. The Sartorialist has been declared by Time repository as one of the majority successful forces in design, whilst Diane Pernet is mostly on the front row of shows. Susanna Lau, author of Style Bubble, can often be found sitting nearby her.