Phil Jones Tipped As England Captain

Phil Jones

Manchester United centre half Phil Jones has been tipped by many ex­perts as the fu­ture Eng­land cap­tain. An ac­com­plished and highly ver­sat­ile de­fender with ob­vi­ous lead­er­ship qual­it­ies, the former Black­burn Rovers hero has en­joyed an in­cred­ibly suc­cess­ful sea­son so far both at club level and on the in­ter­na­tional stage.

Born in nearby Pre­ston, Phil Jones made his first team de­but for Black­burn Rovers in a nar­row 1–0 vic­tory over Not­ting­ham Forest at City Ground in the Foot­ball League Cup in Septem­ber 2009. And des­pite of his com­par­at­ively young age, the power­ful and steady stop­per de­veloped into the corner­stone of the Black­burn de­fence in a time period of only twelve months. After mak­ing just 35 Premier League out­ings for The Blue and Whites, he was then pur­chased by Manchester United for a trans­fer fee some­where in the re­gion of £16.5 mil­lion at the be­gin­ning of the 2011-12 cam­paign. A very dir­ect and whole­hearted player, Phil Jones pro­ceeded to make his senior in­ter­na­tional de­but for the coun­try of his birth in a 2–2 draw against Montenegro at the City Sta­dium in Podgor­ica back in Oc­to­ber 2011. After hav­ing ce­men­ted him­self in the Eng­land team, the Manchester United star­let is now ready for the 2012 European Cham­pi­on­ships in Po­land and Ukraine.

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