There’s maybe a few doubts over who is selected for England’s second World Cup match tomorrow in Cape Town against Algeria, but if I was 'Three Lions' gaffer I’d needn’t look no further than Southampton Common.

The flamboyance of Rooney, the tenacity of Gerrard and the heading prowess of Terry were all evident in ‘Harvey The Super dog’, a small canine whom was parading his skills in front of plenty of sun seekers yesterday afternoon.

There was no sign of Robert Greens faulty butter fingers as Harvey, the terrier, headed, controlled and dribbled the ball effortlessly around one of the city’s biggest parks. From a far, I spotted the bustling animal, but I was not the only one.

Earlier in the day an ITN News reporter had apparently been walking his own dog when he discovered Harvey’s prodigious footballing talent.

Thinking, with his journalistic hat on, the terrier would pitch a classic ‘And Finally’ local news item, and as I’ve left it, in the next couple of days it would be worth keeping an eye out for the super dog on a televised local news bulletin in the south.

With the World Cup thus far, not quite producing the special spectacle many were predicting, you could do far worse than having twenty two men and one dog named Harvey in your twenty three man squad. Scouts afar, watch this space!