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Why Hodgson's mind was made up on Barkley long before his 'Rooney' moment

Tosh Farrell, the former Everton coach who helped develop Ross Barkley and Jack Rodwell talks to FourFourTwo about the former's call-up to the World Cup in Brazil.

�Ross can be anything he wants,� Farrell tells FourFourTwo. �He can play centre-midfield, he can play as a striker. He�s flying but there�s so much more improvement in him.

�He was never scared to take a chance in the game and he still makes one or two errors in the game where he gets dispossessed in vulnerable areas but the modern-day manager has to accept those mistakes because he�s the sort of lad who learns from them. �If you start telling Ross not to do things he wouldn�t be anywhere near as creative as he is.�

�Ross has really been given a licence to play and has been told to go out there and take a chance,� says Farrell. �Every game he�s building on his last one, and soon he�ll dominate midfields. The problem is that he�s a marked man, sometimes the opposition will try and stifle him so he�ll have to manage that too.�

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