5 mins to go - this is really pretty bad

training session that , the real stuff starts next week . Got some DIY to do this weekend like filling the fridge up with beer and going on a wine tasting day , well you have to take the Mrs out now and again and its a footy free weekend so everyones a winner

One shot on target. Reminds me of Palace back in the day.

EE got the ball twice IIRC in his 20 mins or so. He looks England's best attacker by far.

I have now sufficient funds to last me the rest of my life. Provided I don't buy anything.

Mainoo seems to be the latest media darling. I thought he was pony tonight, but then again most of them were.

I think his plan is to always have two disciplined central midfielders

But everyone hates that, as it means exciting forwards miss out

So he tried to follow the zeitgeist that as long as everyone is really talented attacking just pick a lot of attacking minded players and it will work out

It could. But it didn't.

Iceland really did us a favour by showing how easy it is to thwart that obvious strategy

Out of 26 players he has only picked one, and that was an out there kind of left field pick, that has a centre midfield discipline to the midfield art of passing, and defending but most critically of positional sense and their role within a team.

Basically he has boxed himself into a corner with his football beliefs and the squad that he has picked that he has only one solution. Which is Adam Wharton.

I fear he will go for Conor Gallagher instead. Who has other admirable qualities. But not ones that will work on this international stage to give any structure to England's play. Or Trent Alexander-Arnold who really has no natural gifts in the centre.

Basically Adam allows everyone else to look really good and do good things.

We'll see. Southgate brought Alexander-Arnold on as a right back where he played OK, like he did when Wharton replaced him in that position against B & H and where he proved more effective than he had in midfield.
From this game, Mainoo played himself out of a starting role and although Gallagher performed well at the end of the season it was alongside the more defensively-minded Caicedo. Rice also looks to get forward on the ball but with Mainoo ahead of him Iceland (pop 377,689) were looking more likely team to score at the end of the game

Wharton may prove too inexperienced but with a shaky defence, I think the only way England have a hope of winning is if he is a starter