Hart of England is playing for keeps

If there is one shirt in Fabio Capello’s England team on which a new name could be inscribed before the World Cup finals next summer, it is the goalkeeper’s jersey. Glen Johnson, by returning from Portsmouth to one of the big four clubs, will secure a season of Champions’ League experience that should confirm him as right-back, and there are few vacancies elsewhere in the squad – though Arsenal’s Kieran Gibbs is compiling a strong case to be understudy to Ashley Cole in the other full-back position. The unpredictable David James, however, 39 in August, remains the most vulnerable of Capello’s first picks, fortunate that…

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