21-05-2024, 18:13
Gareth Southgate is a nice bloke deep down, but don't look for too many nice blokes at the tops of podiums.
He has come up with 33 players and only really included one player who is anything like a goalkeeper, and he's a sandwich short of a picnic. We've got Burnley's second choice, Arsenal's reserve and the Palace No 2. We've got goalkeeping coaches on big bucks everywhere and there's no one able to combine athletic ability and the hand-eye co-ordination to catch a ball as a natural act alongside possessing sound judgement.
He's come up with Luke Shaw in defence who shouldn't be allowed out in those shorts and left out Fikayo Tomori and Eric Dier for leaving England in order to play the game with top clubs ..... But a mostly side-lined Chelsea defender makes it as does a very old-fashioned out-of-form Brighton defender.
He has wisely avoided picking a midfield, but looks likely to test Mainoo beyond breaking point.
Our hope is that we have far more potential goal scorers than any other team in the competition.
Palmer, Foden, Saka, Bellingham, Kane. How do we accommodate them all? I'd be for playing them. Saka, Kane and maybe Foden up front, then Palmer, Bellingham and Eze in behind them picking holes and scoring too. Grealish available on the bench. Rice as a defensive midfielder in front of the three fastest runners and best passers at the back ...... in front of our crazed, girly-legged keeper. Would we win it? Probably not, but we'd have fun.
Can nice Gareth win it? Not a hope!
He has come up with 33 players and only really included one player who is anything like a goalkeeper, and he's a sandwich short of a picnic. We've got Burnley's second choice, Arsenal's reserve and the Palace No 2. We've got goalkeeping coaches on big bucks everywhere and there's no one able to combine athletic ability and the hand-eye co-ordination to catch a ball as a natural act alongside possessing sound judgement.
He's come up with Luke Shaw in defence who shouldn't be allowed out in those shorts and left out Fikayo Tomori and Eric Dier for leaving England in order to play the game with top clubs ..... But a mostly side-lined Chelsea defender makes it as does a very old-fashioned out-of-form Brighton defender.
He has wisely avoided picking a midfield, but looks likely to test Mainoo beyond breaking point.
Our hope is that we have far more potential goal scorers than any other team in the competition.
Palmer, Foden, Saka, Bellingham, Kane. How do we accommodate them all? I'd be for playing them. Saka, Kane and maybe Foden up front, then Palmer, Bellingham and Eze in behind them picking holes and scoring too. Grealish available on the bench. Rice as a defensive midfielder in front of the three fastest runners and best passers at the back ...... in front of our crazed, girly-legged keeper. Would we win it? Probably not, but we'd have fun.
Can nice Gareth win it? Not a hope!