[Devongone]

We are a strange mixture. The best English goalies I've seen this season were either not "yet" playing in the Premiership, or never will. In midfield we have Declan Rice and Alexander-Arnold if we decide he's not good enough to play full back and little else ...... even though both Bellingham and Eze are really advanced midfield players. Gallagher plays the position and tries hard, and Curtis Jones has never been able to nail down a place at Anfield.

At the back we went from a nation of full backs to having none and whilst I rate Quansah and Branthwaite, experience really only counts for Kyle Walker and Stones ........

Up front we are so good and have so many to pick from we think everyone is a forward. The only thing that can stop us scoring is having too rigid a tactical plan. We ought to go a long way. Our best eleven would win if Pickford was on his best day. We'll be our own most dangerous enemy. We'll lose because we'll lose.

But to answer the Pickford question honestly. He is our only No 1. Nick Pope is the only other choice and he might never be good enough again to get over his international nerves. My opinion of Pickford is that a number of years ago he would have been very lucky to have even played top flight football. Goalkeeping was in reverse gear and accelerating even before we abolished ball-handling as a skill. Once we made keepers blockers and passers instead of catchers the whole world began to lose it.