Ah, ****. I forget I'm cursed. Speaking of which I think I might owe Serge Aurier a new avatar on here
A few other relevant squads... Denmark (preliminary squad) Goalkeepers: Kasper Schmeichel, Frederik Rønnow, Jonas Lössl, Jesper Hansen Defenders: Simon Kjær, Andreas Bjelland, Mathias "Zanka" Jørgensen, Andreas Christensen, Henrik Dalsgaard, Jens Stryger Larsen, Peter Ankersen, Riza Durmisi, Nicolai Boilesen, Jannik Vestergaard, Jonas Knudsen Midfielders: Christian Eriksen, Thomas Delaney, William Kvist, Lasse Schöne, Lukas Lerager, Mike Jensen, Mathias Jensen, Michael Krohn-Dehli, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Daniel Wass Forwards: Nicklas Bendtner, Nicolai Jørgensen, Yussuf Poulsen, Andreas Cornelius, Pione Sisto, Martin Braithwaite, Viktor Fischer, Kasper Dolberg, Kenneth Zohore, Robert Skov Columbia (preliminary squad) Goalkeepers: David Ospina, Camilo Vargas, Iván Arboleda, José Fernando Cuadrado Defenders: Cristian Zapata, Dávinson Sánchez, Santiago Arias, Óscar Murillo, Frank Fabra, Johan Mojica, Yerry Mina, William Tesillo, Bernardo Espinosa, Stefan Medina, Farid Díaz Midfielders: Wílmar Barrios, Carlos Sánchez, Jefferson Lerma, José Izquierdo, James Rodríguez, Giovanni Moreno, Abel Aguilar, Mateus Uribe, Yimmi Chará, Juan Fernando Quintero, Edwin Cardona, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Gustavo Cuéllar, Sebastián Pérez Forwards: Radamel Falcao García , Duván Zapata, Miguel Borja, Carlos Bacca, Luis Fernando Muriel, Teófilo Gutiérrez South Korea (preliminary squad) Goalkeepers: Kim Seung-gyu, Kim Jin-hyeon, Cho Hyun-woo Defenders: Kim Young-gwon, Jang Hyun-soo, Jung Seung-hyun, Yun Yong-sun, Kwon Kyung-won, Oh Ban-suk, Kim Jin-su, Kim Min-woo, Park Joo-ho, Hong Chul, Go Yo-han, Lee Yong Midfielders: Ki Sung-yueng, Jung Woo-young, Kwon Chang-hoon, Ju Se-jong, Koo Ja-cheol, Lee Jae-sung, Lee Seung-woo, Moon Seon-min, Lee Chung-yong Forwards: Kim Shin-wook, Son Heung-min, Hwang Hee-chan, Lee Keun-ho Argentina (preliminary squad - you can skip ahead) Goalkeepers: Sergio Romero, Nahuel Guzman, Willy Caballero, Franco Armani Defenders: Gabriel Mercado, Javier Mascherano, Nicolas Otamendi, Federico Fazio, Nicolas Tagliafico, Marcos Rojo, Marcos Acuna, Ramiro Funes Mori, Cristian Ansaldi, Eduardo Salvio, German Pezzella Midfielders: Angel Di Maria, Ever Banega, Lucas Biglia, Manuel Lanzini, Gio Lo Celso, Ricardo Centurion, Guido Pizarro, Leandro Paredes, Maximiliano Meza, Enzo Perez, Pablo Perez, Rodrigo Battaglia, Cristian Pavon Forwards: Lionel Messi, Sergio Agüero, Gonzalo Higuaín, Paulo Dybala, Mauro Icardi, Lautaro Martínez, Diego Perotti Also, the following ex-Spurs players are in their various squads Luka Modric and Vedran Corluka (Croatia) Gylfi Sigurdsson and Emil Hallfredsson (Iceland) Paulinho (Brazil) Federico Fazio (Argentina) Giovani Dos Santos (Mexico) Massimo Luongo (Australia) William Troost-Ekong (Nigeria)
About how I see it. Southgate's reasoning is that three in the back lets the FBs push up and provide some width in their end while adding more defenders in ours. What it doesn't do is provide a means of getting from one to the other. I'd go Pope Walker Stones Maguire Sessegnon RLC Dier Dele Lingard Kane Rashford I'd pick Lingard and Rashford ahead of Vardy and Sterling since they're teammates, tell Dele to run the team, and hope for the best. Sometimes you have to have a bad team. Sometimes you have to have a boring team. But you never have to have a bad, boring team.
Do you have a licence for rewriting song lyrics? And I do hope your blind faith in the England team will not be affected by the occasional sub-standard performance.......
I've been writing/re-writing song lyrics and other stuff for years. A mate, who was on the comedy circuit for a while, and I wrote a humorous musical revue of Elvis' life using the music of songs Elvis sang from the relevant times. We thought it was great. Apart from a couple of pub performances, it remains 'undiscovered'. We're just working on the second rewrite of our first novel. I'll let you know when it's in The Top 10 Best Sellers list. I grew up in Wembley and used to go to every international game there, for decades. No more. We've only ever been any good at 3 tournaments and 2 of them were in this country. Maybe the next generation could do something but we're currently at an all time low in terms of English coaches and players. We might make it out of the group but no further. It's sad but there's no point in hiding from it. The song's just a bit of fun. I'll take the piss as a first reaction to most things......
And kept David Luiz, despite not rating him, while selling Nathan Ake. And sold Matic to Man Utd to bring in Bakayoko.
To the surprise of...somebody, I guess, Adel Taarabt has not made the Morocco squad - or even the standby list
I can sort this out by merely changing a few bits of punctuation: To the surprise of...somebody, I guess. Adel Taarabt? Found the surprised guy.
The preliminary France squad's in... Goalkeepers: Alphonse Areola, Hugo Lloris, Steve Mandanda Defenders: Lucas Hernandez, Presnel Kimpembe, Benjamin Mendy, Benjamin Pavard, Adil Rami, Djibril Sidibe, Samuel Umtiti, Raphael Varane Midfielders: N'Golo Kante, Blaise Matuidi, Steven N'Zonzi, Paul Pogba, Corentin Tolisso Forwards: Ousmane Dembele, Nabil Fekir, Olivier Giroud, Antoine Griezmann, Thomas Lemar, Kylian Mbappe, Florian Thauvin Reserves: Wissam Ben Yedder, Kingsley Coman, Benoit Costil, Mathieu Debuchy, Lucas Digne, Alexandre Lacazette, Anthony Martial, Adrien Rabiot, Mamadou Sakho, Moussa Sissoko, Kurt Zouma After that we're getting to teams being obstinate about announcing their squads: Serbia are waiting until the 20th, Spain and Belgium the 21st, and Japan the 31st.
Areola.......Umtiti...........I'm still 7 at heart. Fantastic players.....shame for them that the coach is 2 bob. What's Zidane doing these days?
