Source: Liverpool_Echo
Ian Snodin: England's loss is Everton FC's gain as far as Leighton Baines is concerned
I'M probably not the first person to wonder exactly what Fabio Capello was thinking with the England squad he named yesterday.
For a match against the minnows of Montenegro at Wembley I would have thought Leighton Baines would have been the perfect understudy to Ashley Cole.
But instead he has been overlooked again for Steven Warnock.
No disrespect to Warnock, who is a good, solid player, but he is very different to Baines. He's a strong tackler whose strengths are in his defensive abilities.
Baines is more in the mould of Cole, in that they are both very attack-minded and can deliver damaging crosses into the six yard box, as Baines proved again at St Andrew's on Saturday.
Leighton's first couple of matches this season were so-so, but since then he has got better and better and has been outstanding in recent games.
He's desperately unlucky not to be back in the England set-up, but England's loss is Everton's gain.
At least Leighton now has an uninterrupted build-up to the Goodison derby match which is a relief to everyone at Goodison who does rate him!
