A question for Spurs fans, if Arsenal weren’t first, do you think you’d be happy with fourth and Antonio Conte? Plus, some love for Bukayo Saka and more...
1) The fact that in our last 2 matches against top opposition , Southgate has felt comfortable playing a back 4 instead of a back 5, and we’ve been the better team in both those games, is a big step forward. It’s another part of our evolution over the last 5 years. Obviously tournaments can come down to moments and fine margins, but no doubt we should be one of the favourites for the Euros if we get there.
4) I’m a Utd fan so I love Rashford to bits. But the overreaction from a lot of Utd fans to what was actually a valid comment from Southgate baffled me. He’s missed a lot of international games in the last 2 and a half years so he wasn’t ‘missed’ at this break in the same way a regular like Kane would be.
5) This obsession people have with club form confuses me. The latest example was the number of journos desperate for Ramsdale to start ahead of Pickford – who is the best keeper we’ve had in 20 years. It reminded me of all the talk before Euro 2021 of how Pickford and Sterling should be dropped because they had a difficult time at club level. Southgate stuck with them because of their track record in an England shirt, and they were two of the outstanding players at the tournament.
So quite frankly, even if Ramsdale and Toney were to outperform Pickford and Kane at club level for the next 13 months – they wouldn’t get into the England XI and rightly so.
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