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!
Source: Liverpool_Echo