Oh dear! Joe Cole is injured and England face being plunged into chaos again for their forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Kazakhstan at Wembley on Saturday and in Belarus next Wednesday.

The age-old problem of no left-flanking midfielder has raised its troublesome head again and we are left wondering who will be stuck out wide in an alien role this time. Please God – and Fabio Capello – not Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney or Liverpool's midfield maestro Steven Gerrard. That would just be a criminal waste of their talents elsewhere on the pitch.

There is only one out-and-out candidate if you just want a winger and that's Stewart Downing of Middlesbrough. But he has yet to prove he can do it for more than the odd match. And when he has played recently he hasn't exactly set the world on fire.

If Tottenham's Jermaine Jenas can use both feet, then I would ask him to pull us out of the mire. He has done a very good job when used mainly as a substitute for England in the last few games and should be given his head from the word go now.

It's asking a lot to come in and solve the problem left-wing role straight away in such important fixtures, but Jenas is the one for me. What do you mean he’s just a show pony and a part of the reason that Tottenham are rock bottom of the Premier League? Who else is there? I defy anyone to come up with someone better!