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Time for England to trust Joe Cole (0)

  • Phil McNulty - Sport Online chief football writer
  • 8 Sep 08, 01:44 PM

BARCELONA

Joe Cole was once described by Jose Mourinho as "a player with two faces - one beautiful and one I don't like."

Mourinho saw the unacceptable face of Cole in October 2004, when he accused him of neglecting defensive duties and effectively reducing his own team to ten men after scoring Chelsea's winner against Liverpool.

So Cole was back on familiar territory in Barcelona on Saturday when England coach Fabio Capello showed his grasp of English can cross the training ground to the shop floor, with poor Joe in the firing line again.

We got the Beauty and The Beast of Cole according to Capello - but he still showed enough to suggest England will need him in the World Cup qualifier in Croatia on Wednesday.

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