nmc
Well-Known Member
The World Cup is becoming bigger and bigger - so many teams and so many pointless games. It’ll be weeks and weeks before they get to the business end of the tournament and the real knock out (and interesting) football begins. England I suspect will be back at Heathrow long before the real action starts - I might be wrong but I don’t get any impression that Southgate is going to break with the past - he will use the same trusted formula - a team based on players from the big clubs - taking no account of form or fit into the team - expect Henderson, Alli, Wellbeck, Rashford, Young and Smalling to feature. As a few have said the winners will come from Germany, Spain, Argentina or Brazil - the four nations with far and away the most talent.