So happy to see Conor called up. Although he is no longer Palace I feel he is still part of us and like one of our own. I would love to see him grow during the tournament and score the winner in the final. Would be a true Roy of the Rovers moment.

I am surprised that Guehi didn't get the nod.
Maguire is a waste of space and as slow as a tugboat and Coady is not good enough either.
Southgate has gone for tried and trusted - straight out of Roy Hodgson's book of football.
Only 6 midfield players as well - sort of telegraphs his tactics up front!
Naturally I want England to do well but Southgate needs to be gone.
Media and player management are his forte - football itself is definitely not!

this will almost certainly be the end of his cycle. Even if we get to the final or semis, I think his momentum as England manager has peaked. EVEN if we somehow won the thing, it's achievement complete and move onto the next person, who you'd like to think the FA know who it is.

How the heck did Grealish get included. Waste of space 🤬

It's a ridiculous squad and has shown the obvious faults with Southgate.

- Players who are not regularly or just plain have not been playing in. Kalvin Phillips honestly WTF.
- Obviously picking his 'favourites'
- The likes of Tomori, Guehi, Burn et al being put behind Dier and Maguire makes no sense whatsoever.
- A real lack of narrative supporting some of his decisions

"I will not pick players based on reputation" - F*ck off Gareth you boring, big nosed, line towing, low intellect mug.

What we achieved in the last couple of tournaments must be noted and worthy of some praise however I was always under the impression it was a wave being proverbially ridden as opposed to management genius (that makes sense in my own mind). We had some young players who very much 'turned up' for England initially, a good culture, maybe some luck etc however this seems to be waning.

It threatened to be as though we were on the brink of a real breakthrough from all the stereotypes the national team had created in years past however I see us now reverting to type and the manager fully leading that movement.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

I am a couple of episodes into that FIFA Uncovered series
(on Netflix) all I can say is "WOW" what a jigsaw puzzle -